May 2006

UDC and Mitsubishi Chemical Announce Agreement to Collaborate on Ink Jet Printable OLED Materials Development. The Collaboration is Directed Towards Developing Materials for use in Phosphorescent OLED Displays Fabricated Through Solution or "Wet" Processing Methods.

"Collaborating with a world-class chemical company like Mitsubishi Chemical allows us to share ideas and help each other reach the next level of innovation for OLED materials based on our PHOLED™ phosphorescent OLED technology and Mitsubishi Chemical's expertise in OLED chemicals and ink formulation," said Steven V. Abramson, President and Chief Operating Officer of Universal Display. "Mitsubishi Chemical's commitment to printable phosphorescent OLEDs, which we call P2OLEDs™, indicates that ink jet printable PHOLED technology has real commercial potential. By working in concert on the development of next-generation P2OLED materials with Mitsubishi Chemical, we hope to accelerate this process."

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One Stop Displays announced a new 16x2 character PLED display that measures only 5mm thick. The PMOLED OSD1602-3 offers high brightness, high contrast (over 200:1), and extreme viewing angles that support low light conditions.

Pricing on the OSD1602-3 starts at $12 USD for sample quantities and $10.00 or less for 1k and up, contact OSD for volume quotations.

Nippon Steel Chemical and Universal Display (UDC) today announced a collaboration to develop new markets for red phosphorescent OLED materials. As the background of this collaboration, there is the fact that a commercially-available red host material from NSCC is compatible with commercially-available red phosphorescent OLED emitters from Universal Display.
By using red phosphorescence, overall power consumption of the display can be reduced by more than 40% as compared to using fluorescent red OLEDs. The combination of Universal Display's red PHOLED materials and NSCC's host material, called NS11, offers very efficient, highly desirable red colors with long operational lifetime. These products are currently available for evaluation and commercial use from the two companies.

Novel display technologies will complement LCDs, OLEDs, and plasma technologies at the 44th Society for Information Display Conference to be held in San Francisco, June 4 to 9.

One of the most intriguing new technologies is Liquavista, a spinoff from Philips launched in April, which is developing products using electrowetting technology for portable displays.

OLED-T, a developer and manufacturer of world-class organic light emitting diode (OLED) materials and device structures, today announced that it has raised $7 million venture capital funding led by E-Synergy.

OLED-T has been formed from the assets of ELAM-T. The change of name reflects the focus on the development and commercialisation of OLED technology. OLED-T will use the new investment to fund a new research and development (R&D) facility in the UK and to bolster its executive management team.

BenQ Siemens has launched its latest music phone equipped with its 'Q-Fi' music system: a ten-band equaliser hooked up to a pair of built-in 3D surround-sound speakers, fed by the company's own music playback app and activated with dedicated controls.

The EF71 sports a brushed aluminium clamshell casing. There's a 2.2in, 176 x 220, 262,144-colour main display and a white, 128 x 64 OLED screen used when the case is closed. The phone has a two-megapixel camera with 9x digital zoom which can also be used as a webcam when the phone's hooked up to a PC's USB port. The EF71's battery can also be charged this way. Bluetooth connectivity is part of the package too.

DisplaySearch has released the Q1'06 issue of the Quarterly Organic Semiconductor Patent Analyst Report (OSPA). This latest issue of OSPA analyses the 1,598 granted and published patents relating to organic semiconductor technologies issued during Q3'05 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO), European Patent Office (EPO) and World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).

In this issue of OSPA, key inventors of organic semiconductor patents for the period 2003-2005 are identified: The inventor with the most organic LED patents is S Yamazaki (Semiconductor Energy Laboratory, Japan), for organic transistors the most prolific inventors are K Hirai (Minolta, Japan) and then W Fix (PolyIC, Germany), for photovoltaics the top inventor is C Brabec (Konarka Technologies, US) and for organic memory devices it is S Pangrle (AMD, USA).

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Universal Display Corporation will announce today it has been awarded a $1.275 million contract extension from the U.S. Army Communication Electronics Research and Development Engineering Center (CERDEC). The extension will leverage the Company's achievements under its prior Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract.

Under the extended program, Universal Display, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and L-3 Communications - Display Systems, will continue developing a flexible, active-matrix OLED (AMOLED) display for a wrist-based communications device. The combined team plans to incorporate enhancements in performance and functionality into the next generation of display prototypes to be delivered to the U.S. Departments of the Army and the Air Force.

The full-color AMOLED display device is enabled by Universal Display's proprietary PHOLED, TOLED® top-emitting OLED and FOLED® flexible OLED technologies, as well as by PARC's LTPS TFT technology. The electronics and packaging for the wrist-based device are from L-3 Communications Display Systems.

Ron Mertens from OLED-Info.com recently had the opportunity to interview Khaled R. Khuda, President, One Stop Displays.

One Stop Displays (OSD) of Winter Park, FL has over a 15 year history of experience for display technology. OSD is focused on advanced display technology and associated services. OSD features OLED, PLED, and TFT display technology. This short interview is a follow-up of our October 2004 interview.

Q: First of all, thank you for accepting to do this interview session with us. Our previous interview was at October 2004. Can you give us a quick overview of OSD today? What has changed since in the last year and a half?

Since the last interview there have been several advancements made in OSD's Organic display offerings. Both large molecule and small molecule organic displays have seen improvements in materials and reliability. Materials used in the small molecule OLEDs have increased the life expectancy by approximately 50% in some cases. For example the monochrome Orange displays have shown experimental lifetimes of up to 90k hours. Improvements in OLED color filter technology have allowed full color SMOLEDs to achieve brightness levels of up to 150 nits.