OTB thin-film encapsulated OLEDs meet shelf-life requirements for commercial use

OTB Display announced

that it is able to produce thin film encapsulated OLED devices that meet the shelf-life requirements for commercial use. Not only are these displays manufactured on OTB’s in-line mass manufacturing equipment, but also the deposition of the thin film encapsulation has been proven to render the same optical performance as the conventional, [...]

Sony’s 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio 27-inch OLED HDTV

At this year’s CES Sony is presenting a 27-inch OLED TV

With a contrast ratio of greater than 1,000,000:1 (not a misprint) to go with its 1080p resolution, and >100% NTSC color reproduction.

The Register has more details

The two displays, bevels included, were just 5mm thick.

The first display is a compact, 11in model with a native [...]

“Ionic junction” organic diode

George Malliaras and coworkers at Cornell created a novel type of organic diode with an “ionic junction” by laminating together layers of

an anthracene derivative containing free positive ions and a ruthenium, complex containing negative ions. When the two are joined, ions diffuse across the junction creating a difference in energy levels that facilitates [...]

Novaled Ramping up Manufacturing and Testing

Novaled is reinforcing its production of samples to better respond on the increasing customer requests. Additional Manufacturing and Testing capacities will be installed in Novaled’s clean rooms in Dresden, Germany within this year.
“We just recruited new production staff to be able to operate our equipment 24 hours a day seven days a week” says Kai [...]

DisplaySearch Lowers OLED Revenue Forecast to $4.6B in 2010

DisplaySearch

has updated its 2006 OLED Technology Report, a comprehensive examination of the fledgling OLED industry, which reached revenues of $491M in 2005, up 8% Y/Y, and unit shipments of 55.8M, up 72%. Updates are due to a number of recent changes affecting the OLED industry:

* Liquidation of SK Display
[...]

Litrex and CDT to develop high-resolution inkjet printer for P-OLED displays

CDT and Litrex

are paving the way for the production of a new generation of high resolution polymer organic light emitting displays (P-OLED) through the development of an inkjet printing solution capable of producing P-OLED displays at up to 200 pixels per inch (ppi).

CDT and Toppan roll-printed AM-PLED display

Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) and Toppan Printing

have produced a number of 5.5 inch full color active matrix polymer OLED (P-OLED) displays using a roll printing method. A demonstrator will be shown at the SID conference in San Francisco. The displays – believed to be the first of their type ever produced – are the result [...]

Organic electronics market forecasts

NanoMarkets predictions for the OLED and e-paper, smart packaging, and thin-film photovoltaics industries:

Markets for OLED and Paper-Like Displays to Total $10.2 Billion by 2011:

combined sales of OLED displays and paper-like displays will reach $10.2 billion by 2011 and then go on to reach $14.7 billion by 2013.
shelf-edge displays will be the biggest opportunity for the [...]

Tohoku Pioneer Launches White OLED Mass Production

According to Displaybank

Japans’ Tohoku Pioneer has launched mass production at its new plant dedicating to producing white organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) for mobile handset backlights (BLUs), the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reports. The company is first to start mass production of white OLEDs in Japan. With this launch, the OLED plans to ship white OLEDs from [...]

Ga Tech and Solvay: $3M Deal for OLED Research

The Georgia Tech Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE) and Solvay announced a $3 million deal for OLED research today.

COPE has already developed a unique material platform for OLEDs that may be deposited over large areas by ink-jet printing and patterned using standard photolithography. Tech researchers have found that exposing the material to ultraviolet [...]

DuPont small molecule printable OLED materials

DuPont has announced solution-processable small molecule OLED materials, enabling low-cost deposition techniques previously only possible with polymeric OLED materials.

DuPont’s latest technological achievement enables — for the first time — the combination of high performance and long lifetime of small molecule OLED materials with a printing process that is substantially lower cost and more scalable [...]

Princeton University awarded USDC contract to develop a-Si TFTs on polymer foil

The Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM) has been awarded a $1.7M R&D contract by the U.S. Display Consortium (USDC)

to develop the process technology and know-how to produce amorphous silicon thin film transistors (a-Si TFTs) on a clear, high temperature-capable polymer foil substrate.

[...] organic substrates cannot withstand typical TFT semiconductor on [...]

White OLED to replace lightbulbs?

A research team including Stephen Forrest and Mark Thompson have published their work on
“Management of singlet and triplet excitons for efficient white organic light-emitting devices”
in Nature (440, 908-912; var pat = “CMG”; var cat2 = “nature”; var test = cat2.match(pat); if (!test) { //document.write(”\(13 Apr 2006\)”); document.write(”\(13 Apr 2006\)”); [...]

Epson develops OLED-based print head

EETimes is reporting on a new printhead using an OLED light source.

Epson Corp. said it has developed a print head using an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) light source, which is touted as achieving printing performance comparable to that of laser printer heads.
Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. collaborated with Epson on the prototype printer head from the [...]

2005 OLED Industry Summary – OLED Market Grows 65% YoY to 61 Million Units

According to a report by Displaybank

Overall OLED shipments reached more than 61 million units for the year 2005, and revenues hit almost US$600 million, according to Displaybank (CEO Kwon Sang-Sei), a market research firm.

The clear leaders in 2005 were Taiwan (27 million units) and Korea (22 million units), followed by Japan (8 million units).