April 2006

It is forecast that organic electronics will be a $30 billion business in 2015 mainly due to logic, displays and lighting. It will be a $250 billion business in 2025, with at least ten billion dollars sales from logic/ memory, OLED displays for electronic products, OLED billboard, signage etc, non-emissive organic displays, OLED lighting, batteries and photovoltaics, with sensors almost at that level. And almost all of these products will be printed, flexible, laminar constructions using the same or similar processes. Important other products such as laminar organic fuel cells and organic electrostatic and RF protection are also in the forecasts. The report also analyzes territorial trends and partnerships.

OSD is pleased to announce our new OSD64480ALBAT01 is one of the most mechanically petite displays on the market. It weighs with a miniscule 0.66" diagonal measuring only 21.00 x 18.4 x 2.20 mm (WxHxD).
The current versions feature a monochrome blue emissive image on a black background at 1 bit/pixel depth. This display is solid state and offers perfect contrast and performance at all temperatures. Despite it's tiny size, the display is packed with the remarkable viewing characteristics associated with organic displays including 160 degree viewing angles, over 100:1 contrast, and great image legibility. This tiny standard is a one-of-a-kind offering that has some high praises by current customers. Pricing for the display starts under $12, FOB FL, and OSD offers a compatible EVK board to simplify your development interconnect for an additional $6.50.

The Georgia Institute of Technology's Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE) and Solvay announced a $3 million deal for OLED research today.

Solvay, an international chemical and pharmaceutical group headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, with units in more than 50 countries and a strong presence in Georgia, has signed a three-year commitment with Georgia Tech to fund research in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs).

DuPont announced a significant technology breakthrough in its OLED technology, taking a significant step toward commercialization of this next generation flat panel display offering. Using advanced materials, OLEDs produce low power, thin, high-performance flat panel displays. OLED panels are emissive, eliminating the need for backlights and simplifying display design compared to other display technologies, such as liquid crystal displays (LCDs).

DuPont has achieved lifetimes of the three primary colors each exceeding 10,000 hours of white lifetime (or 40,000 hours for a typical video) at the brightnesses required for a 200 nit display. With this development, DuPont has demonstrated that OLEDs can be manufactured at high yields and low total cost.

DisplaySearch and cintelliq have announced a distribution agreement whereby cintelliq will produce and DisplaySearch will market and distribute the Quarterly Organic Semiconductor Patent Analyst Report (OSPA).
The Quarterly Organic Semiconductor Patent Analyst Report is a 200+ page quarterly report that provides an overview of patents related to organic semiconductor technologies that were published or granted by the European, Japanese, US or World patent offices in the previous quarter. Each issue analyses about 1200 patents, covering areas such as LEDs, substrates, photovoltaics, transistors, memory cells, encapsulation, materials, patterning, deposition, lasers, sensors, and fabrication.
The report classifies patents to identify areas of greatest activity, as well as highlighting interesting trends in research and patenting. The report also analyses the patents by assignee, tracking the major players in the industry and spotting new entrants to the field. Patents issued to academic organizations are monitored, as are patents issued to the major OLED licensors, Kodak and CDT, and their licensees.

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eMagin Corporation today announced the first four product offerings of its breakthrough OLED-XL(TM) microdisplay portfolio. eMagin's proprietary OLED-XL displays provide a new level of high performance imaging, with up to 410,000 hours luminance life, the widest temperature range, and the lowest power requirement of any commercially available SVGA resolution microdisplay system.

AlkaMax, an advanced alkali metal dispenser for mass production of Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) displays that eases the manufacture and increases OLED performance in terms of operating voltage and luminosity.

SAES Getters DryFlex proves to be the accomplished technology that boosts OLED display duration to over 30%, as demonstrated by a main OLED manufacturer in its tests.

SAES Getters’ AlkaMax offers the unique opportunity of using a safe and stable source to create a pure alkali metal single layer or an Alkali Metal Doped Organic Layer (AMDOL) instead of LiF or Li2O or any other electron injection stratum. These benefits are acknowledged by research groups of professor Kido at Yamagata University and of professor Adachi at the Chitose Institute of Science & Technology in Hokkaido1, that used AlkaMax in their tests and experiments. The use of pure alkali metal layer can overcome the needs of a strict control of the composition and thickness of the layer: through AlkaMax, a thin layer of metallic Cesium (Cs) or of another alkali metal can be easily and reliably created, exploiting all of the advantages of a low work function metal.

SAES Getters’ DryFlex is the thinnest dryer solution available for OLEDs, delivering the best trade-off between high sorption speed and reduced product thickness and it can be fully customized in shape and size to accommodate any display geometry.

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Eastman Kodak Company, a pioneer in the area of organic light emitting diode technology (OLED), today announced a licensing agreement with Univision Technology of Taiwan. Univision plans to incorporate Kodak's organic display technology in future generation flat panel passive-matrix displays. To date, more than 15 companies have licensed organic display technology from Kodak.
The royalty-bearing license enables Univision to use Kodak technology for passive-matrix OLED modules in a variety of flat panel display applications. The agreement also gives Univision the opportunity to purchase Kodak's patented OLED materials for use in manufacturing displays.

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There are many good things to say about EyeBud 800's video quality: from what we've seen so far, it looks like eMagin's display and video processing are both more than up to snuff, rendering iTunes Music Store videos and user-ripped content with a level of clarity and color fidelity that is unmatched by the other wearable displays we've seen. The reason for this: eMagin's OLED display is simply superior to the LCDs we've seen in similar devices, especially in resolution (800x600), contrast, and saturation. What's most immediately noticeable is that there's nothing washed out about the video, which you can adjust in brightness to your liking: the blacks are close to true black, the whites are bright, and though the human eye can't discern them all, there are 24 million colors inbetween. No matter; they're vivid, and better than on most LCDs. Additionally, moving images looked better than we'd expected given the quality of the original iTMS videos - artifacting and other issues were hardly noticeable on the iTMS content we saw, and despite the high resolution, we didn't see evidence of over-defined pixels. To trot out a trite phrase, this was like watching a TV trapped inside a headset, and though we wouldn't say it was like watching a 60" HDTV in a living room, it was a lot closer than the other iPod options out there. Both of the iLounge editors who tested the 800 walked away impressed.

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