OLED technologies companies

US-based Amorphyx develops amorphous-metals based display backplanes, which can be used to drive displays using quantum-tunneling. The company says that such backplanes will enable extremely fast conductivity and thus "unlimited" refresh rates.

Amorphyx's AMNR-based backplane are compatible with LCDs, OLEDs and e-paper displays.

OPTIS, based in France, provided software simulation of light and lighting technologies.

The company's SPEOS light and optical simulation software supports OLED since 2012 and can assist both designers and OLED panel makers. In 2018 Optis was acquired by Ansys.

Ares Materials was established in 2014 as a spin-out from the University of Texas, with an aim to commercialize novel flexible electronics materials.

In 2018 Ares launched a mechanical lift-off technology called Easybond for flexible OLED production. The company is also developing a flexible electronics substrate called Pylux, based on a polysulfide thermoset polymer.

Established in 1907 in Japan, Asahi Glass Corporation (AGC) is one of the world's top glass makers. AGC produces architectural glass, automotive glass and also glass for electronic products.

For the display market, AGC offers substrate glass for both LCD and OLED displays. For the OLED market, AGC developed the low-thermal shrinkage AN Wizus glass. The company is also developing ultra-thin flexible glass for flexible and foldable displays.

AsTEK is a privatly held company, based in Korea, that offers sapphire substrates, wafers and ingots. In January 2009 AsTEK bought Leadis' display driver business, which included both PMOLED drivers and AMOLED drivers (although Leadis remained the owner of the AMOLED EpiC technology IP).

BASF Coatings, a division of BASF, develops, produces and markets a high-quality range of innovative automotive coatings, automotive refinishes and decorative paints.

Following BASF 2016 acquisition of Chemeteall, the Coatings division now supplies applied surface treatments for metal, plastic and glass substrates in a wide range of industries and end markets. For the OLED market, BASF Coatings provide flexible barrier (encapsulation) solutions.

Beneq is a supplier of production and research equipment for advanced thin film coatings. Beneq's offering includes dedicated coating equipment for barrier films and device encapsulation for the OLED industry.

Beneq coating technology, atomic layer deposition (ALD), is suited for encapsulation of OLED panels, including flexible OLEDs. The company announced it supplied an ALD encapsulation system to a leading Asian OLED maker in 2012.

Corning is one of the world leaders in glass and ceramics - working on these materials for 150 years. Corning is active in several markets - display technologies, Environmental technologies, telecommunications, life sciences and others.

Corning has three products aimed for OLEDs:

• Lotus Glass, suitable for high-end OLEDs and LCDs (Lotus replaced the old JADE OLED glass product)
• VITA, hermetic sealing solution for OLEDs (available for licensing only)
• Willow Glass: ultra slim (50 and 100 um) flexible glass that can support backplanes and color filters in both LCD and OLED panels and be used in R2R processes.

Korea-based Dowoo Insys, established in 2010, is a developer and supplier of glass products for the display industry.

Dowoo Insys develops ultra-thin glass covers for foldable OLED displays. The company provides its glass, which is a treated Schott Glass UTG, to Samsung Display.

Samsung Display is the largest shareholder (27%) in Dowoo Insys.

Encapsulix, established in 2010 in France, develops ALD equipment for thin-film deposition. Encapsulix developed an ALD reactor configuration (injector, doser, reaction chamber) which is infinitely geometrically scale able.

The company focuses on encapsulation and ultra-barrier coatings applications specifically for OLED (lighting and display), flexible organic electronics, data storage and other emerging applications.

In January 2017 Encapsulix announced that a "leading Asian AMOLED maker" has chosen its ALD-TFE systems for industrial-scale flexible OLED encapsulation. The company also supplied R&D systems to Blackbody and Leti.

Evonik, based in Germany, is a multi-national specialty chemicals company. The company focuses on high-growth sectors, especially health, nutrition, resource efficiency and globalization.

The company developed a new oxide-TFT backplane material (iXsenic S) and a solvent-based process. iXsenic S offers a performance that is high enough to drive high-resolution LCD and OLED displays and can be used in a low-cost coating-based deposition process.

FlexEnable develops OTFT-based backplanes for flexible displays, suitable for both EPD and OLED technologies. The company was spun-off from Plastic Logic in February 2015 to further develop the technology and license it for display makers.

In 2014 Plastic Logic demonstrated flexible AMOLED prototypes built on their OTFT backplanes. The company also develops graphene-based display backplanes. FlexEnable is collaborating with CPT to develop flexible OLED dispalys based on OTFT backplanes.

China-based GigaDisplay Semiconductor develops display driver ICs, offering drivers for both mobile AMOLED panels and OLED microdisplays.

In February 2018 GigaDisplay demonstrated its microdisplay drivers and plans to achieve mass production by the end of 2018.

HanaAMT, established in 2003 in Korea, is a developer and producer of metal and glass products.

HanaAMT developed encapsulation glass solutions for OLED displays, and shipped products to WiseChip, RiTDisplay, Visionox, Samsung Display, LG Display, OSRAM and others.

China-based Kangde Xin Composite Material Group (KDX) is China's largest optical film supplier that produces over 700 film types for a wide range of applications - from printing and packaging to window films and display films.

For the OLED industry, KDX provides barrier (encapsulation) film and tapes, flexible touch films and flexible substrate coating films.

Lotus Applied Technology was established in 2007 in the USA as a spin-off of the thin film process group within Planar Systems.

Lotus develops innovative solutions to thin film processing challenges, and is focused on ALD equipment, including ones for roll to roll production of encapsulation layers for OLED panels and other devices.

Lucid Display Technology (LDT) is a fabless company based in korea, focused on Displays ICs - for both LCD and OLED displays.

LDT is offering both PMOLED and AMOLED display drivers.

Korea-based LX Semicon (previously Silicon Works) was established in 1999 as a IC technology developer for display panels. Silicon Works is a fabless company that suppliers ICs for TVs, monitors, laptops, mobile devices, automotive, lighting and battery devices.

LX Semicon provides AMOLED drivers for smartphones and VR/AR devices.