Printed Electronics Conference

Examples of some of the exciting work now proceeding to develop different types of OLED display are seen at Arizona State University, the US Army Research Laboratory and Sharp Corporations of Japan. Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone company and, separately, the US Air Force are assessing the various OLED technologies with a view to using them. The UK Displays and Lighting Network pulls together UK efforts. Motorola, Xerox and PolyIC are developing printed transistor networks and CEA/Liten of France has recently made advances in these and both printed batteries and transistor networks. Merck, NanoDynamics. HC Starck, Honeywell and EMD Materials are developing new chemicals and inks and Dimatix is a leader in ink jet printing of electronics. The University of Manchester UK has developed printed microwave rectifiers and high switching speeds for OLEDs are certainly in prospect. However, one must not ignore competition for OLEDs in certain applications such as the new flexible LCD displays from ITRI Taiwan, electroluminescent displays from Pelikon UK and electrophoretic displays all have a major place in the future display market.