In June 2008, I had the chance of interviewing Dr. Geoff Williams, Topless's project manager. Geoff has a PhD from University of Durham, and later worked in Philips Displays and he now works in Thorn lighting.

In April 2008, we had the chance of interviewing Mary Kilitziraki, Fast2Light's project manager. Fast2Light is an integrated (9 companies, 3 research institutes and 2 universities) R&D project that aims to research and develop light emitting foils based on OLED tech.

Q: What are the major goals of the Fast2Light project? What will you consider to be a big success in the project?

Fast2Light aims to lay the foundations for marrying large-area roll-to-roll technologies with the field of organic electroluminescence, for all necessary layers in an OLED device on foil. We aim to set in place all the experimental platforms that when integrated will produce a high quality lighting foil. Yet, these technology platforms can be used in other electronic devices. We will indeed think ourselves as successful if we develop and master the new large-area processes and demonstrate these in a 30cmx30cm lighting foil in 3 years time. But equally important, one of the successes of the project will be the exploitation of our results, on platform level, in other fields of electronic devices.

Ron Mertens from OLED-Info.com recently had the opportunity to interview Toshiki Mizoe, overseas sales manager, Tokki Corporation. Tokki manufactures vacuum process equipment and factory automation system, and developed the first OLED mass production system in 1999, which processed both OLED / electrode material deposition and encapsulation by one system. Tokki's OLED production system has been delivered to most of small molecular OLED manufactures in Japan, Korea and Taiwan.

Q: First of all, thank you for agreeing to conduct this interview. Can you describe your production system (ELVESS)?
ELVESS is cluster tool OLED production system, and it has evaporation chambers for organic materials and metal (for cathode), and automatic encapsulation unit is connected to the system. Total system can be run for 5 to 6 days without stop, with tact time of

Ron Mertens from OLED-Info.com recently had the opportunity to interview Ian Underwood, Strategic Marketing Officer and Co-Founder of MicroEmissive Display (MED). Ian is also the co-inventor of its PLED (also called P-OLED) microdisplay technology. Prior to 1999 he was at The University of Edinburgh where he carried out pioneering research and development in the field of liquid crystal microdisplays between 1983 and 1999. Ian has recently co-authored a book about microdisplays.

MicroEmissive Displays (MED) was founded in 1999 with the aim of developing and commercialising a new microdisplay technology using PLED materials. MED is a public company listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange. In september 2006 MED has announced that it has raised over $9 million, and has revealed its plans for a volume manufacturing facility for its polymer light emitting diode (PLED) microdisplay products.

Ron Mertens from OLED-Info.com recently had the opportunity to interview Susan Jones, eMagin's Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer.

eMagin is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing and marketing of virtual imaging products that utilize OLEDs, OLED-on-silicon micro displays and information technology solutions. Focused on Micro displays, eMagin is selling its micro displays to companies that incorporate them into products such as cameras, army helmets or headsets, etc.

Q: First of all, thank you for accepting to do this interview session with us... Let's begin. What kind of OLED microdisplays are you currently selling?

eMagin is currently selling SVGA+ OLED and OLED-XL microdisplays that have 852x600 color triad pixels, SVGA 3D OLED and OLED-XL microdisplays that have 800x600 color triad pixels. We also just announced the availability of a limited number of interface design and reference kits with prototypes of our new SVGA 3DS OLED-XL microdisplay that is the same resolution as the SVGA-3D, but with a much smaller diagonal.

Ron Mertens from OLED-Info.com recently had the opportunity to interview Myrddin Jones, OLED-T's new CEO.

OLED-T is engaged with research, development and commercialization of a pioneering class of OLED materials, called ELAMATES®. For more information on OLED-T, check out the corporate background and technological background documents they sent us.

Q: Myrddin, First of all, thank you for accepting to do this interview session with us... Now, obviously there are many OLED IP and material companies out there. What makes OLED-T unique? What are the advantages of your materials and IP?

OLED-T lead electron transporter material can replace existing standard materials using the same production process and offer advantages in terms of efficiency, voltage, colour and lifetime as a direct result even with no other changes in materials or structure. In addition, OLED-T has prototype display production in-house allowing optimum structures to be developed and proposed to customers. See attached technology overview.

Ron Mertens from OLED-Info.com recently had the opportunity to interview Chyi-Shan Suen, director of sales & marketing of Vitex systems.

Headquartered in San Jose CA, Vitex is an IP-centric licensing, engineering service and material company in the business of thin-film barrier coatings and flexible substrates for the FPD market. Vitex's development of a thin-film moisture barrier technology continues to gain acceptance within the industry due to its demonstrated ability to meet the rigorous environmental requirements for thin-film encapsulation of bottom- and top-emission OLEDs. In addition, this technology can be applied to a wide range of organic semiconductor applications such as photovoltaics and batteries.

Q: First of all, thank you for accepting to do this interview session with us. Can you describe the Barix system?

The Barix Encapsulation™ is comprised of alternating layers of organic and inorganic films. The organic layer smooths and planarizes the display surface, while the inorganic is the real barrier. The total thickness of the coating is only about 3 microns or less. It is flexible, transparent and is applied at low temperature. The coating can be applied directly on top of an OLED display, eliminating the mechanical packaging components while providing the moisture and oxygen protection required by an OLED display.

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.

Ron Mertens from OLED-Info.com recently had the opportunity to interview Janice Mahon, Universal Display's VP of technology commercialization.

Janice, could you give a small introduction about UDC, and about your PHOLED products?

Universal Display Corporation (NASDAQ: PANL) is a world leader in the development of innovative OLED technology for use in flat panel displays, lighting and other opto-electronics applications. Founded in 1994, Universal Display provides state-of-the-art OLED technology and services to OLED manufacturers to enhance their products' features and competitive advantage. We have developed proprietary OLED technologies and materials that should provide dramatically enhanced display performance at lower costs than today's liquid crystal displays.

Update: In March 2011, we posted a follow-up interview with Andy, updating us on Plextronics' business and technology.

OLED-Info.com recently had the opportunity to interview Andy Hannah, the CEO and President of Plextronics. Plextronics was founded in 2002, as a spin-out from Carnegie Mellon University, and is developing critical technology that enables broad market commercialization of organic electronic devices. Such devices include plastic chips, polymer solar cells and organic lights and sensors.

Q: You have developed an optimized hole injection layer for PLED devices. Can you explain that?

The hole injection layer or HIL functions as a gatekeeper that balances the flow of electricity into the OLED, improving the efficiency of generated light, and smoothing out any rough electrodes that would otherwise cause rapid device failure. Plextronics has developed Plexcore HIL, a non-acidic, solvent-based ink that when printed using spin-cast or inkjet techniques form carefully tuned thin-films that function as the HIL.