UDC announces fundamental breakthrough in blue PHOLEDs - New sky blue achieves over 15,000 hours of lifetime

Universal Display Corporation announced a fundamental technical achievement in the development of its blue PHOLED phosphorescent OLED technology: a sky blue PHOLED with over 15,000 hours of operating lifetime. This is the first blue PHOLED which has broken through, by an order of magnitude, the 1,000 hour lifetime barrier - a challenge that some people thought might be insurmountable. The announcement was made today at Universal Display's annual shareholders' meeting, held in Philadelphia, PA.

The Company's proprietary blue PHOLED demonstrates a lifetime that exceeds 15,000 hours at 200 cd/m2, and also offers excellent efficiency, a trait for which the Company's PHOLED technology is renowned, with 9.5% external quantum efficiency and 22 cd/A luminous efficiency. With CIE coordinates of (0.16, 0.37) and a 474 nm peak emission wavelength, which is equivalent to a sky blue color, this material system is not yet saturated enough for commercial full-color applications.

Earlier this year, Universal Display had disclosed a deep blue PHOLED. The Company is now continuing its research efforts to unify the deep blue color, efficiency and lifetime in one system to meet the needs of the commercial OLED market.

Posted: Jun 30,2005 by Ron Mertens