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NEWS FROM
2000
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Study
predicts OLED markets are growing growing
Pleasing prototypes of small OLED displays result from development
efforts in dozens of companies
Several
companies prepare OLEDs for cell phones
Cell phones represent the first phase of passive and active matrix
OLED displays for portable applications.
IEDM
conference highlights plastic transistors
Advances emphasize flexible substrates and ink-jet printing.
Flexible
displays needed for information age
Penzias says improved displays represent essential tools for managing
the ever increasing flood of visual information.
Cambridge
startup to make plastic circuits
Plastic Logic Ltd. is a new company developing circuits based on
semiconducting polymers for applications including low-cost electronics
and display drivers.
The
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000
Alan Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid, and Hideki Shirakawa were selected
"for the discovery and development of conductive polymers."
Philips
employs plastic transistors in display
Philips Research Laboratories researchers use plastic transistors
to drive a 64 x 64-pixel liquid crystal display (LCD).
Portable
apps demand flexible low-power displays
The 20th annual International Display Research Conference describes
tomorrow's displays.
Bell
Labs makes electrically pumped organic laser
A team from Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories has created a
solid state, electrically activated laser using an organic semiconductor
as the active material.
SID
2000 increases the "Wow!" factor
OLED displays were some of the front runners at the Society for
Information Display symposium.
Kodak
and Sanyo introduce a 5.5 inch OLED display
Eastman Kodak Co. and Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. announce a 5.5 inch
diagonal active-matrix organic LED display with QVGA resolution,
larger than the 2.4-inch
display they announced in 1999.
Philips
to sample color polymer LED flat panels
Philips is developing passive matrix color polymer LEDs for cell
phones and handheld devices, with higher resolution active matrix
displays due later.
Bell
Labs improves plastic transistors
Bell Labs has developed a new n-type material, called F15, for easy
to manufacture plastic chips.
DuPont
iTechnologies Acquires UNIAX Corporation
DuPont Displays has acquired UNIAX Corporation to develop brighter,
lower cost and lightweight polymer-OLED displays on plastic substrates
for use in wireless devices, such as cell phones and personal digital
assistants.
Polymer
and Organic Flexible Display News from 1999
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