Eastman Kodak says that Fuji Electric Holdings Japan licensed Kodak's OLED technology, and is applying its license toward development of its own color conversion matrix (CCM) full-color OLED display technology with the intention of offering flat PMOLED displays.

Fuji Electric's CCM technology uses a production technique the company calls the "metal mask-less organic film deposition method," for dramatic improvement in manufacturing yield rate, and greater reliability in superior full-color PMOLED.

Samsung Electronics, the leader in TFT-LCD technology, today announced that it has successfully developed the world's first single-sheet, 40-inch active matrix (AM) OLED for emissive flat panel TV applications. The high-definition-compatible OLED prototype has a wide screen pixel format of 1280x800 (WXGA) driven by an amorphous silicon (a-Si) AM backplane to permit faster video response times with low power consumption.

Samsung's 40-inch OLED panel will be demonstrated for the first time at the world's largest display industry event, Society for Information Display (SID) 2005 International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition in Boston, May 24- 27.

The 51 year-old Jang jin and 37 year-old Park Gyu-chang Professorial research team of the department of Information Display, Kyunghee University, yesterday announced that it has succeeded in developing 'Phosphorescent organic light-emitting diode (OLED)' that measures 2cm in width, 1.5cm in height and 3mm in thickness. All the OLED materials developed so far consist of fluorescent materials that emit light only when electric flows and stop emitting promptly if electricity is turned off. However, the research team applied a fluorescent material that emits light for a long time even after electricity is turned off for the first time. "The new phosphorescent OLED is brighter than OLEDs made from fluorescent materials, resulting in sharply reduced power consumption and extended life-span," Professor Park said. " In addition, it can have the effect of two conventional display outputs by allowing screens on both sides (front and back)," The technology was developed as a result of a three-year R&D grant sponsored by UDC, who retains the source technology of phosphorescent materials, and is scheduled to be unveiled at the Information Display Association International Symposium planned to be held in the U.S on 24 this year.

Litrex Corporation has shipped the first M-Series(TM) Inkjet Systems to a leading display maker. These systems reinforce Litrex Corporation's position as the world leader in inkjet manufacturing systems for display applications. These new "next generation" M-Series(TM) tools build upon the success of over 50 inkjet systems that Litrex Corporation has installed worldwide at 25 customer sites.
The M-Series(TM) Inkjet Systems are built for substrates from Gen 3 to Gen 7 size, and are designed for precise deposition of high value materials such as those in P-OLED, LCD, nano-metals and biomaterials. The M-Series(TM) Inkjet Systems have a modular architecture that builds upon Litrex Corporation's existing experience and allows new equipment to be designed and adapted quickly to other applications.

Universal Display Furthers 'Flexible OLED Initiative' and Expands Prototype Capacity with Full-Color OLED Deposition System for OLED Displays on Plastic, Metallic Foil, and Glass Substrates.

UDC today announced the successful installation and start-up of a novel full-color OLED deposition system at Universal Display's technology development center in Ewing, New Jersey. Designed and built by Tokki Corporation, a leading supplier of OLED manufacturing equipment, working with Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation, a premier Japanese trading company, and using novel features designed by Tokki and Universal Display, the ELVES020C OLED Deposition System can produce OLED displays on both rigid glass and flexible substrates (e.g. metallic foil, and plastic).

This new system is the latest step in Universal Display's program to develop a broad array of technologies for conformable and flexible, full-color, high-resolution OLED displays. Universal Display was recently awarded a new $1.7 million Federal contract to develop flexible OLED display prototypes, bringing the Company's overall funded flexible OLED initiative to $6 million total.

Philips and German firm Novaled have announced white OLEDs operating at a brightness of 1000cd/m² with a record-breaking efficiency of 25lm/W.

work between Philips’ Lighting and Research divisions, and Dresden-based Novaled, combined Philips’ materials selection, optical outcoupling technology, and layer schemes for building up OLED devices, with proprietary doping technology from Novaled.

This is an encouraging result that clearly demonstrates the potential of OLED technology for lighting applications, said Klaas Vegter, chief technology officer of the Lamps business group at Philips Lighting.
The results of the research will be used in future developments, ongoing projects, and the recently started European project OLLA (Organic LEDs for Lighting Applications), in which both companies are involved.

Sumitomo Chemical and The Dow Chemical Company announced today that Sumitomo Chemical has purchased the LUMATION Light-Emitting Polymers (LEPs) business from Dow. Financial terms were not disclosed. Sumitomo Chemical's acquisition of LUMATION LEPs will strengthen the company's LEP technology-based business, in line with its strategy.

Sumitomo Chemical has developed fluorescent and phosphorescent LEPs based on the company's long-established display material and conducting polymer technology. Sumitomo Chemical's blue-color material achieved 10,000 hours of brightness half-life. The material is ideal for a printing method, a much simpler and more cost effective production process for large-sized displays than the vacuum deposition method used for small-molecular OLEDs. The company is also developing highly efficient new materials such as dendrimers in cooperation with Cambridge Display Technology.

The OSD 12864-2C is a small form factor monochrome OLED display. The solution offers a vibrant 75 nit image projected at extreme viewing angles with contrast ratios over 100 to 1. The 12864-2C is packaged in a 1.02 diagonal viewing area in a mere 1.6mm thick package. It emits two appealing colors blue (Bottom 48 rows) and yellow (Top 16 rows). This design is aggressive way to feature multiple colors without the unit price of a full color OLED display, and draw attention to icons, content, or text that needs to be differentiated from typical content. The display is packaged with a TAB driver that features a design selectable 8-bit parallel or SPI interface.
This display is available now for evalutation and production quantities. Production quantities under $10.

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Universal Display Corporation today announced it has been awarded a two-year, $1.7 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract by the U.S. Department of Defense to continue its development of flexible OLED display technology for a next-generation military communications device.

In this Phase III contract, Universal Display is to develop and deliver functional prototypes of a Portable Flexible Communication Display Device. This futuristic communications device will be form-fitted to a soldier's wrist and communicate wirelessly to a nearby computer, thereby enabling soldiers to see crucial video and graphics information in real time.

The device will use a full-color, AMOLED display built on metal foil. The use of metal foil substrates can lead to a rollable, retractable and rugged display with a small and lightweight form factor for use in portable communication devices. Universal Display's FOLED® flexible OLED technology, combined with its TOLED® top-emission OLED technology, enables the use of flexible metal foil as a substrate material. With a 4-inch diagonal screen, the 320 x 240 pixel (QVGA format) AMOLED display will also use Universal Display's proprietary high-efficiency PHOLED™ phosphorescent OLED technology and materials.

One Stop Displays (OSD) announces the release of a 128x64 pixel graphic PLED with standard LCD interface. The OSD2401-04 has the same 8-bit parallel interface and display control instructions as many popular 128x64 LCDs that use the S6B0107 and S6B0108 driver ICs.

The OSD2401-04 from One Stop Displays makes integrating the advantages of PLED technology readily available to existing designs. The 1k piece price is $21.00. Contact One Stop Displays for more information.