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Photo Caption: Under the direction of Beng Ong, scientists on the
Printed Organic Research Team members include: clockwise from the
left: Tamara Perez-Cruz, Ping Liu, Yuning Li, Alan Toth, Yiliang Wu, Brian Chiang,
Ong, Sandra Gardner and Maria Birau. (Photo Credits: Greig Reekie)
Beng Ong Named One of Top 50 Technology and Business Leaders
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Beng Ong, a Xerox research fellow and manager of advanced materials and organic
electronics, has been named by Scientific American magazine to its prestigious annual
list recognizing outstanding acts of leadership in science and technology from the
past year - the 2004 Scientific American 50.
Ong's aspiration is to replace costly silicon technology with inexpensive printed plastic
circuits for creating a new generation of ubiquitous flexible electronics. He and his team
are being honored for their leadership and milestone contributions in plastic electronics
research. The Scientific American 50 appears in the magazine's December issue, arriving on
newsstands Nov. 23.
Selected by the magazine's board of editors with the help of outside advisors, the Scientific
American 50 spotlights a Research Leader of the Year, a Business Leader of the Year and a Policy
Leader of the Year. The list also recognizes research, business and policy leaders in various
technological categories including agriculture, chemicals and materials, communications, computing,
energy, environment, medical treatments and more.
'An Exceptionally Visionary Scientist'
Ong has been named "Business Leader" in chemicals and materials for his work over the past
year in advancing printed electronics. Ong leads a research team at the Xerox Research Centre
of Canada in Mississauga, Ontario, in developing high-performance, nanostructured materials that
enable printing flexible transistor circuits at low temperatures and in open air - generally considered a requirement for low-cost manufacturing. Most materials used today for printed electronics require expensive high-temperature processing, often in dry environments in the absence of oxygen."
"Beng Ong is an exceptionally visionary scientist. His deep understanding of electronic
properties of polymers and his creative application of those insights is behind these breakthrough
developments," said Hervé Gallaire, chief technology officer and president, Xerox
Innovation Group. "The honor is well deserved."
Ong is among Xerox's most prolific researchers, with 120 U.S. patents and numerous foreign
equivalent patents to his credit. Born in Malaysia and receiving undergraduate education in
Singapore, Ong holds a doctorate in chemistry from McGill University and worked as a research
fellow at Harvard University before joining Xerox.
Scientific American 50 winners will be honored Nov. 16 at a celebration at the New York Academy
of Sciences in New York City.
In Good Company
Past Scientific American 50 winners have included:
- Roderick MacKinnon, professor of molecular neurobiology and biophysics (2003 Research
Leader of the Year, as well as winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for chemistry)
- Burt Rutan, president, Scaled Composites (2003 Aerospace/Business Leader)
- Gro Harlem Brundtland, former World Health Organization secretary general (2003 Policy
Leader of the Year)
- Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and chief executive officer, General Electric Company (2002
General Technology/Business Leader)
- Steven Jobs, chief executive officer, Apple (2002 Communications/Business Leader)
The complete 2004 list is available on the magazine's site at
www.sciam.com.
Potential Applications
Printed plastic circuits can be used for:
- Flexible large-screen TVs,
- E-paper,
- Paper-thin PC monitors,
- Wearable electronics,
- Sensors,
- Smart labels
- RFID tags
Past articles on Printed Organic Electronics are available on the
www.xerox.com/innovation website at the following links.
Xerox Research Results Bring
Printed Plastic Transistors
Closer To Commercial Reality
Jet-Printed Plastic
Transistors: A solution for the Display Industry
POE: The Silicon
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