IDTechEx

IDTechEx logoIDTechEx offers independent market research, business intelligence and advice on emerging technologies.

The company offers reports on organic electronics, flexible displays, OLED lighting and printed electronics.

Innovacene

Innovacene (founded in 2010 by a New Hampshire University professor) is commercializing new thin, organic and ultra-lightweight coating for OLED and organic solar cells.

The company is no longer is business and its web site (innovacene.com) is down.

Inteltronic

Inteltronic logo

Inteltronic is the US sales partner for WiseChip and provides display panels, solar panels and LED lighting. Inteltronic sells WiseChip's PMOLED character (16x2, 20x2) and graphic displays (from 0.66" up to 5.5").

iSuppli

iSuppli provided technology market intelligence and research. The company covers all aspects of the display industry, including LCD, PDP, OLEDs, Projection, TV, and more.

In 2014 iSuppli was acquired by IHS.

Konica Minolta Pioneer OLED

Konica Minolta Pioneer OLED logoKonica Minolta Pioneer OLED was established in 2017 as a joint venture between Konica Minolta and Pioneer to accelerate automotive OLED lighting. The new company was formed with an initial capital of 490 million yen (about $4.4 million) and a focus on OLED lighting for automotive applications.

The new "strategic alliance" was to combine KM's roll-to-roll flexible OLED production equipment and technology with Pioneer's achievement in OLED panel mass-production and market rollout and its car electronics business know-how. In 2019 the company was dissolved following Pioneer's withdrawal from the OLED lighting market.

Kyocera Display

Kyocera logoKyocera Display was established in December 2011 when Kyocera bought Optrex. The company offers LCD and PMOLED displays. It is not clear whether Kyocera still products OLED displays.

Leadis

Leadis was a fabless company that developed mixed-signal semiconductors. Leadis focused on LED drivers/controllers and also used to make PMOLED and AMOLED drivers (using their EPiC Technology for AMOLED controllers).

In January 2009 Leadis sold its driver business to Korea based AsTEK, although Leadis remained the owner of the AMOLED EpiC technology IP. In 2012 the company liquidated and is no longer in business.

Legend Display Technology

Legend Display Technology logoLegend Design Technology was established in 1996 in Santa Clara, California with an aim to provide software products and services for LCD and OLED display panel design, modeling, analysis, simulation and debugging.

Legend design tools and services for AMOLED enables customers to perform robust pixel and panel designs for process variation and compensation, pixel optimization and reliability and performance. The software supports a-Si, LTPS and IGZO backplanes.

Lite Array

Lite Array was a subsidiary of Global Tech Advanced Innovations, which aimed to become a PMOLED developer. The company is no longer in business.

Luoyang Sifon Electronic

Luoyang Sifon Electronic logoLuoyang Sifon Electronic was established in 2001 in Luoyang, China, to manufacture high-melting metals such as tungsten and molybdenum alloys. The company produces molybdenum targets, tungsten targets and WCu wafers for the OLED industry and says LG Display uses their products for OLED production.

Luoyang Sifon's web site is no longer operating, it is not clear whether this company is still in business.

Luxell

Luxell logoLuxell Research (a subsidiary of Luxell) has developed the 'Black Layer' - a thin film structure that virtually eliminates ambient reflections, thereby enhancing display readability. Luxell has demonstrated the black layer with OLED and TFEL screens, and also has some OLED related IP.

It seems that the company's OLED program is no longer active.

MC Pioneer OLED Lighting (MPOL)

MC Pioneer OLED Lighting logoMC Pioneer OLED Lighting (MPOL) was established by Pioneer and Mitsubishi (50:50) in June 2013 to market and sale OLED lighting in Japan. MPOL was offering Verbatim's Velve OLED lighting panels (made by Pioneer and Mitsubishi).

In June 2017 Pioneer merged its OLED lighting business with Konica Minolta's OLED lighting unit to create a 50:50 joint venture, called Konica Minolta Pioneer OLED. In 2019 KMPO was dissolved following Pioneer's withdrawal from the OLED lighting market.

MicroEmissive Displays (MED)

MicroEmissive Displays (MED) was founded in 1999 with the aim of developing and commercialising a new microdisplay technology using P-OLED materials.

In september 2006 MED has announced that it has raised over $9 million, and has revealed its plans for a volume manufacturing facility for its P-OLED microdisplay products. In November 2006 we interviewed MED's CEO, Ian underwood.

In November 2008, MED have been forced to close operation following financial problems.

Midas Displays

Midas Displays logoMidas Display is a UK supplier of display modules and LED lighting products. The company currently offers several character and graphic PMOLED panels.

Molecular Glasses

Molecular Glasses logo (2018)US-based Molecular Glasses developed a new class of organic semiconductor materials for OLED displays, branded as OLEDIQ. OLEDIQ materials can be deposited by evaporation or in solution-based processes.

Molecular Glasses focused on host materials for OLEDs, and offered red, yellow, green and blue host materials.

The company seems no longer to be in business.

 

NEC Lighting

NEC Lighting was established in 2000 by the NEC Corporation to develop, produce and sale lighting products. NEC Lighting is researching new lighting technologies, and was involved with OLED R&D.

It seems that NEC Lighting abandoned its OLED program, though.

NeoView Kolon

NeoView Kolon was a Korean company established in 2000 as a subsidiary of the Kolon group to develop and produce PMOLED panels. Neoview shipped PMOLED displays until 2015, when the company was shut down.

NeoView Kolon used to make regular PMOLED displays, transparent PMOLED displays, OLED lighting panels and transparent OLED lighting panels. The company also developed flexible transparent OLEDs.