Historic company listing

+ISO was an Italian based consultancy company that offered lighting planning, product engineering and prototype development services.

The company also offered OLED lighting services to OLED lighting manufacturers and OLED-based lighting product makers. +ISO was closed down in 2016.

4D Systems is an Australian R&D company specializing in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers designed to drive OLED and LCD displays. 

4D Systems also designs and manufactures intelligent and cost effective OLED and LCD display modules for rapid application development purposes or as stand-alone systems.

Add-Vision (from Scotts Valley, California) developed a PLED based display technology called LEC (light emitting electrochemical cell) that enables low cost and flexible displays. Add-Vision listed Bayer, Alps Electric, Toppan Forms and CDT as licensees. CDT was also a shareholder in Add-Vision.

Add-Vision's technology was bought by Sumitomo Chemicals in January 2011. The technology was transferred to CDT in June 2011.

Advantech US was an early stage OLED backplane development company, founded by Dr. T. Peter Brody, inventor of the Active-Matrix.

Advantech US has created a roll-to-roll fabrication technology for producing thin film electronic circuits at exceptionally low cost. The company intended to exploit this technology to manufacture active matrix backplanes for OEM sale and licensing, but the company was shut down many years ago.

Aglaia Tech, founded in 2005 in Beijing, China was a producer of OLED materials for display and lighting applications - including transport, injection, dopants and emissive materials.

The company is no longer in business.

AIV-BEX, established in 2012 in Henan Province, China, aimed to produce small/medium AMOLED panels. The company was supposed to setup up a 4.5-Gen (730x920 mm) fab in Xinyang, Henan, to produce Oxide-TFT based OLED panels. AIV-BEX's first planned line was supposed to have a monthly capacity of 30,000 sheets and to begin production towards the end of 2015.

AIV-BEX's project never saw the light of day, and the company shut down.

AIV-BEX's total project cost was estimated at around 30 billion Yuan (or about $4.82 billion). The first line (with the 30,000 monthly sheet capacity) was going to cost 3.6 billion Yuan ($580 million). According information released in October 2014, the project was still on track at that stage.

AIV-BEX was owned by Aivtech International Group, a NASDAQ-listed (ticker:AIVI) shenzhen based maker of audio&video products. The BEX part of the name stands for "Blue Excitation".

Alkilu was established in 2013 with an aim to develop innovative consumer OLED lighting products. Alkilu had a diverse range of products - from night lights, to bike lights and music conductor stands.

Alkilu first unveiled their products at CES 2014, using OLED panels from several OLED lighting makers. In January 2014 we interviewed the company's CEO.

Alkilu is no longer in business.

Amber Molecular was established in 2017 by researchers at The University of Toronto in Canada to develop novel fluorescent OLED emitters.

Amber Molecular designed and patented a family of fluorescent red, orange and infrared OLED emissive materials. In 2023, the company was shut down.

Ambicare Health (previously Lumicure) was an early stage, privately held company, based in Dundee, Scotland, that developed low cost, portable (ambulatory) and disposable light sources to be used in Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) and cosmetic skin treatment. The light sources were based on OLEDs and Inorganic LEDs.

Ambicare secured 5M$ in funding in early 2009, and later launched their PDT product which used LEDs and not OLEDs. In late 2009 we interviewed their CEO. It seems as if the company is no longer in business.

Founded in 1982, AMS Technologies is a distributor of high-tech systems and components. Headquartered in Martinsried/Munich, Germany, the company serves regional markets from local sales offices in Spain, the United Kingdom, France and Italy.

OLED related products include production equipment for OLED displays, OLED lighting and panel encapsulation; evaporation and sputtering for organics and metal, thin-film encapsulation, panel optical inspection, cluster and in-line systems; for mass production, pilot line and R&D.