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    INTRODUCTION

    As thin display technology improves, TV sets will be available in wider

    shapes and sizes. Fold-up TVs and wearable TVs, similar to wearable PCs will

    be launched soon.

    A plethora of display technologies catering to different requirements of

    different applications are available. Electroluminescent(EL) displays, vacuum

    fluorescent displays (VFDs), and light emitting diodes (LEDs) have a wide

    operating temperature range and luminescent characteristics

    OLEDs are lightweight, durable, power efficient and ideal for portable

    applications. OLEDs have fewer process steps and also use both fewer and

    lower- cost materials than LCD displays. Universal Display believes that OLEDs

    can replace the current technology in many applications due to the following

    performance advantages over LCD.

    Greater brightness

    Faster response time for full motion video

    Fuller viewing angles

    Lighter weight

    Greater environmental durability

    More power efficiency

    Broader operating temperature ranges

    Greater cost-effectiveness

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    Displays are an essential element of industrial and Consumer products.

    Once considered as simple indicator lights, these have become vital in the

    performance of computing, medical imaging, process control and entertainment

    systems. From video systems to kitchen appliances and portable computers, or

    even your digital watch, displays are inevitable.

    Most devices provide users with useful information on a display. In a way,

    the display is an indicator of the quality of that product. If the information

    depicted is consistently wrong-for instance, a watch always running fastthe

    quality of the product is perceived as poor. The same is true with information

    display. The poor quality of the image displayed means that the product is also of

    poor quality.

    A plethora of display technologies catering to different requirements of

    different applications are available. Electroluminescent (EL) displays, vacuum

    fluorescent displays (VFDs), and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have a wide

    operating temperature range and luminance characteristics, but limited colour

    reproduction. EL displays are suited to instrumentation and military applications,

    while VFDs are used in automotive dashboards and traffic lights. Organic LEDs

    (OLEDs) are likely to replace liquid crystal displays (LCDs) in the near future.

    Digital display technology (DDT) is a breakthrough in visual technology.

    It enables engineers to create thin wide-screen TVs, flat TVs, wall TVs, and even

    TV screens that you can fold up like newspapers. Professor Ifor Samuel at the

    University of St Andrews in Scotland, who is conducting research on this

    technology, predicts, In a few years, it will be possible to make TV screens

    which can he rolled up when not in use, information displays on roller blinds, and

    light-emitting clothing for fashion or safety applications. So days are not far off

    when you will be able to customise the shape of your TV as if it were an article

    of clothing.

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    EVOLUTION

    Organic semiconductors have been the subjects of intense scientific

    investigation for the past 50 years. These materials primarily consist of carbon,

    hydrogen and oxygen. Organic materials weak intermolecular bonds in the solid

    state give them properties of both semiconductors and insulators. Organic

    semiconductors attracted industrial interest when it was recognized that many of

    them are photoconductive under visible light. This discovery led to their use in

    electro photography and as light valves in LCDs.

    Organic materials have often proved to be unstable. When exposed to air,

    water, or ultraviolet light, their electronic properties can degrade rapidly. Low

    carrier mobility characteristic of organic materials obviates their use in high-

    frequency (greater than 10 MHZ) applications. These shortcomings are

    compounded by the difficulty of both purifying and doping the materials.

    But in1987 Ching Tang and Steven Van Slyke of Eastman Kodak Co.,

    Rochester, N.Y., successfully addressed many of these problems when they

    produced the first efficient light emission from a two-layer organic structure

    resembling a pn junction. The Kodak group used a class of synthetic dyes to

    develop a device called a small-molecule OLED that produced light with about 1

    percent efficiency. The materials used consist of often no more than 30 or 40atoms covalently bonded into stable individual molecular units called monomers.

    Unlike small molecule compounds, polymers are long chain molecules

    whose monomer segments are attached in a continuous covalently bonded high-

    molecular weight chain. Polymers tend to be environmentally rugged and flexible

    although, like small molecules, their electronic properties can rapidly degrade

    when exposed to oxygen or water.

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    CONSTRUCTION

    A fundamental difference between small molecule and polymeric device is

    the manner in which they are constructed.

    Small molecule OLEDs are grown on a glass or plastic substrate to form a

    multi-layer structure about 100 nm thick. The substrate is first coated with a

    conducting transparent electrode such as indium tin oxide (ITO) which serves as

    the anode. This is followed by a thin hole-transporting organic layer HTL.

    Typically made from chemicals called diamines. An organic light-emitting layer

    of comparable thickness is then deposited on the ETL surface. A low work

    function is necessary to ensure efficient low-resistance injection of electrons

    from the cathode on to the ETL.

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    Changing composition of the layers tunes the OLED emission colors

    across the visible spectrum. Green emission can be achieved by doping an

    electron-conducting organic matrix called Alq3, with either a small amount of an

    iridium phosphor or fluorescent dyes. The pigment perylene when doped in to an

    ETL known as CBP emits blue light. Lanthanide complexes and porphyrin

    pigments have been used to efficiently emit red light when doped in to Alq3 or

    CBP. As in small-molecule devices, changing the chemistry of the polymer can

    tune the color of an OLED.

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    WORKING

    Both polymeric & small molecule OLEDs operate by accepting charge

    carriers of opposite polarities, electrons and holes, from the cathode and anode

    contacts respectively. An externally applied voltage drives these carriers into the

    recombination region where they form a neutral bound state, or exciton. There

    are two types of excitons formed, called singlets and triplets. On average one

    singlet and three triplets are formed for each four electron hole pairs injected into

    the exciton formation region of the OLED.

    Recombination of the singlet occurs within a few nanoseconds of

    formation. This leads to a photon emission and is called fluorescence.

    Recombination of the triplet exciton is slow (taking about 1 ms to 1 second) and

    when it does occur usually results in heat rather than light. But if a heavy

    metal atom such as iridium or platinum is placed in an organic molecule, the

    characteristics of singlet and triplet excitons mix speeding the emission of light to

    within l00ns-l00s. The kind of emission is called phosphorescence.

    Currently, efficiencies of the best doped polymer and molecular OLEDs

    exceed that of incandescent light bulbs. Efficencies of 20 lumens per watt have

    been reported for yellow greenemitting polymer devices, and 40lm/W attained

    for phosphorescent moleculer OLEDs, compared to less than 20 lm/W for a

    typical incandescent light bulb. Soon efficiencies of 80lm W a value comparable

    to that of fluorescent room lighting will be achieved using phosphorescent

    OLEDs.

    Polymer OLED structures can be simpler than small-molecule structures.

    The first polymer layer (in contact with ITO) can serve solely as a hole-

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    injecting/conducting layer, in some cases a single layer is used for electron and

    hole injection, conduction and light emission. Polymer OLEDs also often operate

    at lower power than small-molecule devices. Due to their high conductivity,

    polymer- based devices have operating voltages in the 2-5V range, which is l-2V

    lower than small molecule OLEDs.

    The challenge to making full-color polymer-based displays is very

    different from that for making such displays using small-molecule OLEDs.

    Solution chemistry makes it difficult to deposit and pattern a polymer pixel of

    one color, and then repeat the process using a second color emitter because thesolvents employed may dissolve or attack the devices already on the substrate,

    Several schemes have been suggested to dodge this problem. One particularly

    promising method involves depositing a single blue-emitting polymer, and then

    selectively diffusing green and red dyes into adjecent regions. However, it has

    proved difficult to keep the diffusing dyes from bleeding into regions nearby.

    Seiko Epson Corp. of Nagano, Japan, and Cambridge Display Technology Ltd.,

    Cambridge. England are pursuing a second approach in which the various

    polymer constituents of a full color display are locally deposited using ink

    jet printing. Here, control of the thickness and shape of the droplet. which

    eventually sets into a high resolution pixel, remains an as yetunsolved

    problem. hence polymeric OLEDs not Used commonly

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    FULL COLOUR DISPLAY

    One the of the principal reason that OLED technology has attracted such

    intense interest is its potential for use use in-full colour displays that might

    eventually replace active matrix LCDs. A display consists of a matrix of contacts

    made to the bottom and top surfaces of each organic light emitting element or

    pixel. To generate a full-colour image, it is necessary to vary the relative

    intensities of three closely spaced, independently addressed pixels, each emitting

    one of the three primary colours of red, green or blue.

    Optical filtering of white OLEDs can produce acceptable red, green and

    blue emission as in the diagram. But this method sacrifices efficiency due to the

    large amount of light absorbed in the filters

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    Less efficiency is lost by using a single blue or ultra violet OLED to pump

    organic fluorescent wave length downconverters, also known as colour

    changing media (CCM) as in diagram. Each CCM filter consists of a material

    that efficiently absorbs blue light and re-emit the energy as either green or red

    light, depending on the compound used.

    Organic thin films may lead to the practical realization of low-cost very

    high-resolution, full-colour displays.

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    TECHNOLOGY

    Universal Display Corporations OLED (Organic Light Emitting Device)

    technology is focused on a number of key areas, including:

    a) High Efficiency Materials

    b) Transparent OLED (TOLED)

    c) Flexible OLED(FOLED)

    d) Passive and Active Matrices

    e) Vertically Stacked, High Resolution OLED (SOLED)

    f) Organic Vapor Phase Deposition (OVPD)

    g) Organic Lasers

    h) Patterning by Stamping

    HIGH EFFICIENCY MATERIALS

    UDC and its research partners have developed families of highly efficient

    OLED materials. These materials emit light through the process of

    electrophosphorescence.

    In traditional OLEDs, the light emission is based on fluorescence, a

    transition from a singletexcited state of a material. According to theoretical

    and experimental estimation, the upper limit of efflciency of an OLED doped

    with fluorescent material, is approximately 25%.

    With our electrophosphorescent materials used as a dopant, which exploits

    both singlet and triplet excited states, this upper limit is virtually eliminated.

    Equipped with the potential of 100% efficiency. UDC is working towards the

    commercialization of electrophosphorescent devices by optimizing the device

    efficiency, color purity and device storage and operation durabilities.

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    Such a process is facilitated by the development and modification of

    charge transport materials, charge blocking materials and luminescent materials

    and their incorporation into devices. In addition to the fabrication of high quality

    devices. UDC is also committed to a high standard of device testing. Our

    scientists and engineers have custom-developed sophisticated test hardware and

    software for this purpose.

    Cost effective processing: OLEDs are projected to have full-production level

    cost advantage over most flat panel displays. With the advent of FOLEDtechnology, the prospect of roll-to-roll processing is created.

    TRANSPARENT OLED(TOLED)

    The Transparent OLED (TOLED) uses a proprietaly transparent contact to

    create displays that can be made to be top-only emitting, bottom-only emitting, or

    both top and bottom emitting (transparent). TOLEDs can greatly improve

    contrast, making it much easier to view displays in bright sunlight.

    Because TOLEDs are 70 % transparent when turned off, they may be

    integrated into car windshields, architectural windows, and eyewear.

    Their transparency enables TOLEDs to be used with metal foils, siliconwafers and other opaque substrates for top-emitting devices.

    Directed Top Emission: TOLEDs also provided an excellent way to achieve

    better fill factor and characteristics in high resolution, high information-

    content displays using active matrix silicon backplanes.

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    Transparency: TOLED displays can be nearly as clear as

    the glass or substrate theyre built on. This feature paves the way for

    TOLED to be built into applications that rely on maintaining vision area.

    Today, smart windows are penetrating the multi-billion dollar flat glass

    architectural and automotive marketplaces. Before long, TOLEDs may be

    fabricated on windows for home entertainment and teleconferencing

    purposes, on windshields and cockpits for navigation and warming systems

    and into helmetmounted or head-up systems for virtual reality

    applications.

    Enhanced highambient contrast: TOLED technology

    offers enhanced Contrast ratio by using lowreflectance absorber (a black

    backing) behind either top or bottom TOLED surface, contrast ratio can be

    significantly improved over that in most reflective LCDs and OLEDs. This

    feature is particularly important in daylight readable applications, such as

    on cell phones and in military fighter aircraft cockpits.

    Multi-stacked devices: TOLEDs are a fundamental

    building block for many multi-structure (i.e. SOLEDs) and hybrid devices.

    Bi-directional TOLEDs can provide two independent displays emitting

    form opposite faces of the display. With portable products shrinking and

    desired information content expanding, TOLEDs make it possible to get

    twice the display area for the same display size.

    FLEXIBLE OLED (FOLED)

    FOLEDs are organic light emitting devices built on flexible substrates.

    Flat panel displays have traditionally been fabricated on glass substrates because

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    of structural and processing constraints. Flexible materials have significant

    performance advantages over traditional glass substrates.

    FOLEDs Offer Revolutionary Features for Displays:

    Flexibility: For the first time, FOLEDs may be made on a

    wide variety of substrates that range form optically-clear plastic films to

    reflective metal foils. These materials provide the ability to conform, bend

    or roll a display into any shape. This means that a FOLED display may be

    laminated onto a helmet face shield, a military uniforms shirtsleeve, an

    aircraft cockpit instrument panel or an automotive windshield.

    Ultralightweight, thin form: The use of thin plastic

    substrates will also significantly reduce the weight of the f1at panel displays

    in cell phones, portable computers and especially, large televisionson

    thewall.

    For eg.. the weight of a display in a laptop may be significantly reduced by using

    FOLED technology.

    Durability: FOLEDs will also generally be less breakable, more impact resistant

    and more durable compare to their glass-based counterpart.

    PASSIVE AND ACTIVE MATRICES

    How passive Matrix works?

    Passive Matrix displays consist of an array of picture elements, or pixels,

    deposited on a patterned substrate in a matrix of rows and columns. In an OLED

    display, each pixel is an organic light emitting diode, formed at the intersection

    of each column and row line. The first OLED displays like the first LCD (Liquid

    Crystal Displays), are addressed as a passive matrix. This means that to

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    illuminate any particular pixel, electrical signals are applied to the row line and

    column line (the intersection of which defines the pixel). The more current

    pumped through each pixel diode, the brighter the pixel looks to our eyes.

    How Active Matrix works?

    In an active matrix display, the array is still divided into a series of row

    and column lines, with each pixel formed at intersection of a row and column

    line. However, each pixel now consists of an organic light emitting diode

    (OLED) in series with a thin film transistor (TFT). The TFT is a switch that cancontrol the amount of current flowing through the OLED.

    In an active matrix OLED display (AMOLED). information is sent to the

    transistor in each pixel, telling it how bright the pixel should shine. The TFT then

    stores this information and continuously controls the current flowing through the

    OLED. In this way the OLED is operating all the time, avoiding the need for the

    very high current necessary iii a passive matrix display.

    Universal Display Corporations proprietary technologies should enable

    extremely efficient active matrix OLEDs. Our new high efficiency material

    systems are ideally suited for use in active matrix OLED displays, and their high

    efficiencies should result in greatly reduced power consumption. The TOLED

    architecture enables the organic diode, which is placed in each pixel to emit its

    light upwards away from the substrate. This means that the diode can be placed

    over the TFT back plane, resulting in a brighter display.

    UDC is collaborating with other organizations to develop TFT technology

    compatible with plastic substrates, in order to commercialize highly efficient

    bright active matrix flexible OLEDs.

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    VERTICALLY STALKED, HIGH RESOLUTION OLED (SOLED)

    The stacked OLED (SOLED) Universal Display Corporations award-

    winning, novel pixel architecture that is based on stacking the red, green, and

    blue subpixels on top of one another instead of next to one another as is

    commonly done in CRTs and LCDs. This improve display resolution up to three-

    fold and enhances full-color quality. SOLEDs my provide the high resolution

    needed for wireless worldwideweb applications.

    What is a SOLED?

    SOLED display consists of an array vertically-stacked TOLED sub-

    pixels. To separately tune color and brightness, each of the red, green and blue

    (R- GB) subpixel elements is individually controlled. By adjusting the ratio of

    current in the three elements, color is tuned. By varying the total current through

    the stack,brightness is varied. By modulating the pulse width, gray scale is

    achieved. With this SOLED architecture, each pixel can, in principle, provide full

    color. Universal Display Corporations SOLED technology may be the first

    demonstration of an vertically integrated structure, where intensity, colour and

    gray scale can be independently tuned to achieve high-resolution full-colour.

    Scalable to large pixel size: In large screen displays, individual pixels are

    frequently large enough to be seen by the eye at short range. With the S x S

    format, the eye may perceive the individual red, green and blue instead of the

    intended colour mixture. With a SOLED, each pixel emits the desire colour and,

    thus, is perceived correctly no matter what size it is and from where it is viewed.

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    In addition to being a transparent light emitter, the top indium-tin-oxide

    surface of the TOLED can serve as the hole-injecting electrode for a second

    TOLED built on top of the first device as shown

    Each device in the stack is then independently addressable and can be

    tailored to emit its own colour through the adjacent transparent organic layers,

    the transparent contacts, and the glass substrate. This allows the entire area of the

    vertically stacked pixel to emit any mixture of the three primary colours.

    SOLED architecture is a significant departure from the traditional side by

    side (SxS) approach used in CRTs and LCDs today compared to SxS

    configuration, SOLEDs offer compelling performance enhancements:

    Full colour tunability: SOLEDs offer fullcolour

    tunability for true colour quality at each pixelvaluable when colour

    fidelity k important.

    High resolution: SOLEDs also offer 3x higher resolution

    than the comparable SxS display. While it takes 3 SxS pixels (an R,G,B)lo

    generate full colour display, it takes only one SOLED pixel or one-third the

    area to achieve the same. This is especially advantageous when maximizing

    pixel density is important.

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    Nearly 100% fill factor: SOLEDs also maximize fill factor.

    For example. when a full colour calls for green, the red &blue pixels are

    turned off in the SxS structure. By comparison all the pixels turn on green

    in a SOLED under the same conditions. This means that SOLED color

    definition and picture quality are superior.

    Scalable to large pixel size: In large screen displays,

    individual pixels are frequently large enough to be seen by the eye at short

    range. With the S x S format, the eye may perceive the individual red, green

    and blue instead of the intended colour mixture. With a SOLED, each pixel

    emits the desire colour and, thus, is perceived correctly no matter what size

    it is and from where it is viewed.

    ORGANIC VAPOR PHASE DEPOSITION (OVPD)

    Universal Display Corporation and its research partners at Princeton

    University have developed a transformational technology which can reduce the

    cost and increase the efficiency of the OLED production process.

    The technology, Organic Vapor Phase Deposition (OVPD), can enable a

    low cost, precise, high throughput process for fabricating OLEDs.

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    The OVPD production process utilizes a carrier gas stream in a hot walled

    reactor at very low pressure to precisely deposit the thin layers of organic

    materials used in OLED displays. Conventional OLED fabrication equipment

    evaporates the organic molecules at high temperature and pressure. OVPD offers

    the ability to precisely control the multi-source deposition required for full-color

    OLED displays. The OVPD design should also be adaptable to the rapid, uniform

    deposition of organics on large-area substrates and for roll-to-roll processing.

    Universal Display is developing the production equipment in partnership

    with AIXTRON AG of Aachen, Germany, the leading manufacturer of precisionsemiconductor production equipment for LEDs. The equipment will be sold

    exclusively by AIXTRON under royalty-bearing licenses from UDC.

    ORGANIC LASERS

    Organic lasers, based on UDC's pioneering work with Princeton

    University, have the potential to revolutionize yet another industry.

    An organic laser is a solid-state device based on organic materials and

    structures similar to those used in UDC's display technologies. An optically-

    pumped organic laser demonstrates five key laser characteristics: spatial

    coherence, a clear threshold, strongly polarized light emission, spectral line

    narrowing, and the existence of laser cavity modes. To realize commercialpotential, the key technical challenge today is to demonstrate a mechanism for

    the electrical pumping of these lasers.

    The use of small-molecule organic materials opens the door to an entirely

    new class of light emitters for diode lasers. These organic lasers may offer:

    Greater color variety

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    Tunability

    Further miniaturization

    Easier processing

    Lower cost in a host of end uses

    Potential applications include optical memories (e.g., compact discs and

    digital versatile discs (DVDs), CD-ROMs, optical scanners, sensors, and laser

    printers.

    PATTERNING BY STAMPING

    Universal Display Corporation and its research partners, Princeton

    University and University of Southern California, have developed a novel

    process for patterning electrodes in OLEDs which shows promise of making

    them more efficient and less expensive to manufacture.

    This invention is based on a cold welding process to pattern electrodes to

    sizes as small as 12 microns. UDC has been granted the exclusive worldwide

    license for these and other associated technologies.

    This technology is potentially cost-effective, offers high throughput and is

    well-suited for large-area and roll-to-roll fabrication. It is a valuable addition to

    UDC's portfolio of innovative OLED technologies for this emerging industry.

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    A MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN OLEDS

    Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corporation (CMO), Taiwan, and IBM Japan,

    have jointly developed OLEDs based on advanced amorphous silicon. The full-

    colour 50.8 cm (20-inch) OLED displays consumes less power than competitive

    flat-panel technologies and allows full-size computer displays and flat-panel TV

    screens. The costs involved in fabrication are less.

    OLEDs have long been heralded as the display technology of the future,but have so far failed to compete with conventional technologies beyond displays

    of small size and law information content, such as car radio and cell phone

    displays that are available in the market. A major limitation has been the

    expensive polycrystalline silicon which drives light emission in the organic

    layers.

    The revolutionary prototype by CMO and IBM offers amorphous siliconas a perfect alternative. Amorphous silicon is an unordered material structure,

    which can, unlike polycrystalline silicon, be implemented easily and cost-

    effectively over large areas. The use of existing ITT- LCD manufacturing

    prpcess and facility for commercial production of OLEDs is another milestone

    achieved with the tech nology.

    The advanced amorphous silicon cir cuitry, together with superiorperformance characteristics of the light-emitting layers themselves as well as the

    overall device architecture, results in a display that is comparable to a high-end

    LCD display of the same size and resolution, with half the power consumption at

    typical desktop-dis play brightness, better colour saturation, and larger viewing

    angle. The display has WXGA resolution (1280 x 768) and bright ness of 300

    cd/rn and consumes 25W power. The full video capability extends its usab to

    large flat-panel TVs. 0

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    ADVANTAGES OF OLEDs

    Very slim flat panel

    Low power consumption

    High brightness

    Wide visibility

    Quick response time

    Wider viewing angle

    Self luminous

    No environmental draw backs

    No power intake when turned off.

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    DISADVANTAGES OF OLEDs

    Vulnerable to shorts due to contamination of substrate

    surface by dust particles.

    Voltage drops

    Mechanically fragile

    Potential not yet realized

    APPLICATION OF OLEDs

    Car display

    Cellular phone

    Mobile computer

    Audio visual device

    Household machine

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    CONCLUSION

    Organic materials are poised as never before to transform the world of

    circuit and display technology. Major electronics firms such as Philips and

    Pioneer, and smaller companies such as Cambridge Display Technology,

    Universal Display and Uniax, are betting that the future holds tremendous

    opportunity for the low cost and some times surprisingly high performance

    offered by organic electronic and opto electronic devices. Using organic light-

    emitting devices (OLEDs), organic full colour displays may eventually replace

    liquidcrystal displays (LCDs) for use with laptop and eve desktop computers.

    Such displays c deposited on flexible plastic coils, eliminating the fragile and

    heavy glass substrates used in LCDs, and can emit bright light without the

    pronounced directionality inherent in LCD viewing, all with efficiencies higher

    than can be obtained with in incandescent light bulbs.

    Organic electronics are already entering commercial world. Multi colour

    automobile stereo displays are now available from Pioneer Corp., of Tokyo and

    Royal Philips Electronics ,Amsterdam is gearing up to produce born OLED back

    lights to be used in LCDs and organic integrated circuits.

    The first products using organic displays are already being introduced into

    the market place. And while it is always difficult to predict when and what future

    products will be introduced, many manufactures are now working to introduce

    cell phones and 1 digital assistants with OLED displays with in the next one or

    two years. The ultimate goal of using high efficiency, phosphorescent flexible

    OLED displace in lap top computers and even for home video applications may

    be no more than a few years in to the future.

    The portable and light weight OLED displays will soon cover our walls

    replacing the bulky and power hungry cathode ray tube.

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    REFERENCES

    ELECTRONICS FOR YOU MAY-2003

    WWW.UNJVERSAL DISPLAY.COM

    WWW.IEEE.ORG

    WWW.EMAGIM.COM

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    http://www.emagim.com/http://www.emagim.com/
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    ABSTRACT

    In the Modem era where technology is at high state, need for new

    machineries and instruments are a prerequisite. Demand for high efficient

    measuring system and interactive displays make user-friendly capabilities. In the

    entertainment section high precision imaging is needed for efficient operation.

    With advent of OLEDs, conventional LEDs and LCDs are becoming

    history. High imaging techniques of OLEDs make the critical fields such asdefense and research more efficient in operation.

    With this stage, the purpose of this seminar is to throw light in to the

    capabilities of OLEDs and brief study of their technology.

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    CONTENTS

    INTRODUCTION

    EVOLUTION

    CONSTRUCTION

    WORKING

    FULL COLOUR DISPLAY

    TECHNOLOGY

    A MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN OLEDS

    ADVANTAGES OF OLEDs

    DISADVANTAGES OF OLEDs

    APPLICATION OF OLEDs

    CONCLUSION

    REFERENCES

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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

    I extend my sincere thanks to Prof. P.V.Abdul Hameed, Head of

    the Department, Electronics and Communication Engineering, for providing

    me his invaluable guidance for the Seminar.

    I express my sincere gratitude to my Seminar Coordinator and Staff

    in Charge Mr. Manoj K, for his cooperation and guidance in the preparationand presentation of this seminar.

    I also extend my sincere thanks to all the faculty members of

    Electronics and Communication Department for their support and

    encouragement.

    Soorya.S

    D f ECE MESCE K i