02 Sep 2011

The German Federal President Christian Wulff has nominated three Novaled founders for the Deutscher Zukunftspreis Award for Innovation and Technology. The award recognizes technologies that fundamentally change the working environment.

Fraunhofer Institute’s Karl Leo

Karl Leo (pictured), Jan Blochwitz-Nimoth and Martin Pfeiffer developed OLED technologies that enabled more energy efficient luminaires and solar cells. Novaled is a spinoff of Fraunhofer-Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS), both based in Dresden, Germany.

“Together with my nominated colleagues and a great number of dedicated employees of the institutes and companies, we were able to successfully realize the transfer of a technology from basic research into products,” said Leo.

The award winner will be announced on December 14 in Berlin.

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