Aneeve fabricate a fully ink-jet printed CNT circuit that drives OLED displays
Aneeve Nanotechnologies, a startup company at UCLA's on-campus technology incubator, managed to fabricate a new fully ink-jet printed carbon nanotube (CNT) circuit that is used to drive OLED displays....
View ArticleHolst Centre and imec to develop high-resolution flexible OLED displays
The Holst Centre and imec announced a new high-resolution flexible OLED displays research program. This new program builds on the existing research fields such Organic and Oxide Transistors and...
View ArticleTanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo now offering a printable conductive silver ink
Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo announced that their conductive silver ink is now available commercially, and they say they are the first company to offer such a prOduct. The silver ink is hardened using UV...
View ArticleKonica Minolta developed a new high-accuracy printed electronics inkjet head
Konica Minolta has successfully developed a high-accuracy inkjet head capable of 1-picoliter drop size, the first for printed electronics applications. The new print head utlilizes the company's...
View ArticleSolvay and the Holst Centre present an efficient (30 lm/W) large OLED...
The Holst Centre and Solvay report advances in flexible OLED lighting panels. They present a bendable 69 cm2 OLED panel that features 30 lm/W efficiency at 1000 cd/m2:Some of the layers in the OLED...
View ArticleAn interview with Merck's OLED unit VP, Dr. Udo Heider
Merck is a global pharmaceutical and chemical company based in Germany, working on high performance OLED materials. We're happy to post this third interview with Merck's OLED unit VP, Dr. Udo Heider:Q:...
View ArticleTailoring wettability results in better inkjet-printed electronics structures
Researchers from the Fontys University in The Netherlands have demonstrated that patterned plasma treatment of substrates gives them better control over inkjet printed structures (which results in...
View ArticlePanasonic re-organizes to put more focus on OLED displays
According to a report from Nihon Keizai, Panasonic has taken steps to streamline its R&D and put more focus on OLED TV development. The company plans to invest ¥30 billion ($385 million) in a pilot...
View ArticleAUO is looking into an OLED printing process
Digitimes reports that AUO has started to develop a printing process to make OLED panels, with hopes that this new process will lower the production cost and increase the material utilization. AUO is...
View ArticleCynora unveiled a new flexible OLED prototype aimed for smart packaging
German startup Cynora unveiled a new mostly-solution-based flexible OLED prototype - aimed for smart packaging applications. Cynora developed the low-cost emitters (based on copper precursors) and...
View ArticleMerck to collaborate with Seiko Epson towards printable OLED materials
Merck has signed a cooperation and licensing agreement with Seiko Epson. According to the agreement, Epson will supply Merck with ink technology that dissolves Merck's soluble OLED materials so that...
View ArticleHeraeus announces new polymer OLED HIL-E materials
Heraeus is introducing new polymer OLED materials. The HIL-E grades is a combination of Hole Injection Layer and a high conductive electrode - and so provide an economic ITO alternative. These are...
View ArticlePanasonic shows a 56" 4K printed OLED TV prototype
Panasonic unveiled a 56" 4K (3840x2160) OLED TV panel prototype that was produced using an all-printing method. Panasonic calls this the "RGB all-printing method" and they say that all the organic...
View ArticlePanasonic to convert its Himeji plant to OLED and 4K tablet LCD production
According to Pocket-Lint, Panasonic plans to stop producing LCD TV panels in its Himeji plant, and instead use the fab to produce OLED TVs and 4K 20" tablet LCD panels. Panasonic is using printing...
View ArticleBOE developed an ink-jet printed oxide-TFT 17" AMOLED panel
BOE Display developed a 17" Oxide-TFT AMOLED prototype that was produced in an ink-jet printing process. They say that this is the first time these an Oxide-TFT OLED panel was ink-jet printed...
View ArticleUpdates on AIV-BEX's ambitious Oxide-TFT ink-jet printed OLED project
Back in June 2012 I posted about the new Chinese "Stimulated Blue company" and its AMOLED project. Now I got some new details and corrections for my original story.First of all, the company's name is...
View ArticleMerck OLED program updates, January 2013
Merck is a global pharmaceutical and chemical company based in Germany, working on high performance OLED materials. Back in April 2012 we posted our (third) interview with Merck's OLED unit VP, Dr. Udo...
View ArticleApple poaches senior OLED researcher from LG Display
Apple has hired a new executive into its Display group - Dr. Jueng Jil Lee, a former OLED research fellow at LG Display, who apparently was involved with printing technology research. Dr. Lee's...
View ArticleIDTechEx sees a $10 billion OLED display market in 2013, will reach $25...
IDTechEx expects the OLED display market to reach $10 billion in 2013 (up from about $6 billion in 2012). The market will grow to about $17.5 billion in 2015 and will reach $25 billion in 2017.The...
View ArticleSony and Panasonic plan to setup an OLED TV production joint venture
According to OLEDW (quoting Japan's Sankei Shimbun), Sony and Panasonic are planning to setup an OLED TV production joint venture in 2013. There's no production schedule, but it's likely that Sony and...
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