The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) has inaugurated a new research center dedicated for the development of AMOLED technologies. The new AMOLED Research Centre (ARC) is a national centre of excellent that is funded by the Government's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), by the Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), and Tata Sons.
The goal of this new center is to help India's display manufacturing industry. It will focus on AMOLED displays for wearables, smartphones, and tablets. Researchers at the ARC will also engage in research into OLED TVs, OLED lighting and OPVs.
The ARC, which located at the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras, consists of a state-of-the-art cleanroom with ‘class 100’ and ‘class 1000’ ratings. It is also equipped with advanced fabrication and characterisation tools. The center also has an advanced pixel patterning system, developed by IIT Madras researchers, that will be used for rapid OLED device growth and AMOLED patterning.
The new ARC joins the FlexE center at IIT MAdras, which has been developing flexible OLED technologies since 2014.
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