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Showa Denko signs an OLED white lighting license agreement with UDC

oled — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:37:21 -0500

Showa Denko announced that it has signed a license agreement for OLED Lighting technology with Universal Display. Showa Denko will be able to integrate Universal Display’s proprietary UniversalPHOLED phosphorescent and other OLED technologies into Showa Denko’s white OLED lighting products fabricated by solution-processing methods. Under the agreement, UDC will get license fees and running royalties.

Showa Denko has been developing polymer-based white OLEDs for use with coating-type manufacturing equipment that may enable the cost-effective production of large-area lighting panels. Through their development of a new device structure and the use of phosphorescent OLED technology and materials, the company recently demonstrated a white OLED lighting device with 30 lumens per Watt.

UDC and the FDC enhance their collaboation on flexible OLEDs for the US army

oled — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:24:31 -0500

Universal Display (FDC) and the Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University announced that they have strengthened their collaboration to extend to the joint fabrication of prototype active-matrix PHOLEDs on flexible plastic substrates for the U.S. Department of Army. In addition, Universal Display announced that the company has been awarded a $650,000 U.S. Army Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II Enhancement contract to support this work.

UDC and the FDC believe that the enhanced relationship will accelerate the demonstration of the flexible AMOLEDs. Earlier in 2009, they have already demonstrated a 4.1" monochrome QVGA PHOLED display.

Konica Minolta lays out OLED Lighting plan, wants to get $1 billion in sales by 2017/18

oled — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:54:51 -0500

Konica Minolta lays out its OLED Lighting plan:

Launch OLED lighting equipment by March 2011
Build a large-scale OLED lighting plant by march 2014
Get over 100 billion yen (about $1 billion) in sales by 2017/18

The company will spend around 3.5 billion yen ($38 million) to build an initial production line by the end of 2010, in order to launch products by March 2011. The line will use roll-to-roll production method. The mass-production line planned for 2014 will require at least 10 billion yen ($110 million) to build.

Konica Minolta is working towards OLEDs together with GE and UDC.

Via Reuters

EU patent office rejected CDT's challenge of a core UDC flexible OLED patent

oled — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:28:04 -0500

UDC says that the European Patent Office has rejected an opposition to one of their core flexible OLED patents in Europe. The opposition was filed by Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) back in 2006.

Source: UDC's conference call (via Seeking-Alpha)

Universal Display reports 2Q financial results, expects growth in OLED TVs in 2010 and beyond

oled — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:54:03 -0500

Universal Display Corporation (UDC) announced their results for 3Q 2009. Revenue were $5.1M, out of which $1.6M came from chemical revenue, license and royalty payments and commercialization assistance.

UDC says they are seeing "increased advertising and marketing of our licensees' products that use AMOLED displays with their technology and materials", and an "increase of adoption" for these products. UDC expects growth in large-area OLED displays (OLED TVs) in 2010 and beyond.

UDC also reported that Kyocera has dissolved its OLED subsidiary.

Kyocera stops its OLED program

oled — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:30:58 -0500

It appears that Kyocera has decided to stop its OLED program, and they dissolved their OLED subsidiary. Kyocera were working together with UDC towards OLEDs for mobile phones, including flexible OLEDs.

Kyocera EOS flexible phone concepts

LG Chem unveils OLED lighting panels, to start mass production in 2H 2010

oled — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:10:51 -0500

LG Chem is the latest company to start working on OLED Lighting. LG Chem is showing 4 sizes of OLED Lighting panels, in the form of a Mondrian photo:

50x70 mm
150x20 mm
150x30 mm
150x150 mm

LG Chem's panels use green and red PHOLED materials made by Universal Display, and SFC's deep-blue fluorescent OLED (UDC and SFC are working together since 2008). The basic structure is Anode-Blue-Intermediate Layer (using LG 101 materials) Green&Red Cathode, and the panels provide various color temperature (this was achieved by changing the thickness of materials and the laminar structure).

The OLEDs on display were cold, full white OLEDs, with 20-25lm/W efficiency and a color temperature of 5000-6800K.

UDC Awarded U.S. Army SBIR Contract Extension for Flexible OLED Displays Built on Metal Foil

oled — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:44:01 -0400

Universal Display Corporation has been awarded a 334K$ extension to a US army Small-Business-Innovation-Research (SBIR) phase III contract. UDC will continue to work on their flexible OLED display technology, and will deliver new prototype flexible displays built on metal foil (using amorphhous-silicon backplanes). The new displays will also be encased in new and thinner housing (the old ones were pretty bulky, as can be seen in the photo below).

UDC is working on this together with LG Display and L-3 display systems. They will focus on the design and performance of the OLED displays. The technology is being evaluation by the US Department of Defense for military applications such as a wrist-mounted display for soldiers.

UDC awarded two OLED lighting small projects from the DOE

oled — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:24:22 -0400

Universal Display Corporation say they have been awarded two new Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I $100,000 programs for OLED lighting from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE):

In the first project, UDC will demonstrate a very high-efficiency white PHOLED lighting device. Universal Display’s goal is to demonstrate further gains in power efficiency, exceeding its prior research milestone of 102 lumens per watt.
In the second project, UDC will demonstrate a white PHOLED using the company’s novel OLED permeation barrier technology. The Company, working with Princeton University, recently demonstrated a material system that forms an ultra-hermetic, flexible and transparent environmental barrier for OLEDs. This may provide a cost-effective packaging solution for high-volume, low-cost manufacture of white OLED lighting devices.

UDC awarded $1.65M OLED lighting project

oled — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:49:25 -0400

Universal Display Corporation have been awarded a $1.65M two-year contract from the US Department of Energy to demonstrate thin, efficient white OLED lighting concept for under-cabinet applications.

UDC will deliver several under-cabinet lighting units to the DOE. each unit will have five 6"x6" white OLED panels, with a system efficiency of over 60 lumens per watt which is comparable to existing under-cabinet systems. The OLED lamps will be much thinner than anything available today, enabling new design concepts, and will make for easier installations.

UDC are also working on ceiling lamps, together with Armstrong, and have recently showed a video with the new 24" OLED lamps.