Luxell Technologies has signed an agreement with Hong Kong's IMC Capital to launch a China-based production center based on Luxell's OLED technologies - with a third Chinese partner company (which hasn't been found yet). The investment in this project will be around $50 million.

Luxell Research (a subsidiary of Luxell) has developed the 'Black Layer' - a thin film structure that virtually eliminates ambient reflections, thereby enhancing display readability, suitable for OLED displays.

Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) announced that the EU-funded STEPLED project has concluded - with "outstanding success". The STEPLED project was undertaken with the aims of understanding the science which controls the spin states of polymer-based OLED (PLEDs), critical to developing more power efficient displays.

The STEPLED project focused on establishing high efficiency materials using high singlet-ratio fluorescent polymers, but also worked on soluble phosphorescent emitter. CDT said that STEPLED achieved the production of a standard two-layer device structure with an external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 6%. This has been described as 'outstanding', being almost twice the efficiency of previous materials. The impressive performance was achieved using red emitting polymers, typically the lowest efficiency color in RGB displays.