Leti is a French research institute that is part of CEA (a government-funded technological research organisation). Leti is a large institute with over 2,500 employees and it has an active OLED research.
Leti's OLED program currently focuses on microdisplays. The lab spun-off MicroOLED back in 2007 and they are currently researching the full integration of OLED technology into systems (including IC integration if needed), optical development, encapsulation and more.
China's OLED Industry Alliance was established in June 2011 with an aim to help grow the Chinese OLED industry.
The alliance is headed by the Chinese Government and includes19 member companies, including Rainbow corporation, Irico, Visionox, Tianma, TCL, BOE Display , First-O-Lite, OLightek, Sichuan CCO, Aglaia Tech, Jilin Optical and Electronic materials and others.
CSEM, the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology is a privately held, knowledge-based company carrying out applied research work, product development, prototype, and low-volume production.
CSEM's Polymer Optoelectronics Section offers expertise in custom designed PLED (PLED) development, screening of polymeric semiconductor materials for organic optoelectronic devices, and dedicated feasibility studies.
Taiwan-based D&P Technology, established in 2007, produces sputtering targets and cooling backing plates for the FPD industry.
D&P developed foldable CPI / PET coating cover films for foldable OLED devices.
Dongxu, also known as Tungshu, was established in 1997 and its headquarters and R&D center are located in Beijing. With roots in the optoelectronic display industry, it now has become a industrial investment enterprise focused on the optoelectronic display and renewable energy industries, while also covering financing, urbanization and real estate.
For the display industry, Dongxu offers equipment and materials used in the production of display panels. In November 2020 it was reported that the company is establishing China's largest 6-Gen OLED glass substrate factory in Tianshui City, Gansu Province.
The National Centre for Flexible Electronics (FlexE) was established in 2014 at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur. The centre aims to bring together Indian academia, industry and public research organizations for research and development of large area flexible electronics.
The FlexE center develops OLED lighting and OLED signage applications and is collaborating with industrial partners in both fields. The center explores evaporation, printing and hybrid processing for OLED production.
In 2017 the FlexE center announced it has ordered a bespoke roll-to-roll (R2R) pilot line that will be used for R&D and prototyping projects in the field of printed and flexible electronics. In 2021 we posted an article outlining the major OLED technologies developed at FlexE.
Fluxim AG, based in Switzerland, is a provider of R&D tools to the photovoltaic
and OLED industries.
Fluxim offers several products, including both software tools and hardware tools. such as an advanced simulation software for solar cells and OLEDs, perovskite tools, characterization software, advanced design tools and more.
Fluxim lists Samsung, BOE, DuPont, LG and Merck among their many customers
Fraunhofer FEP (The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology) is a research institute that focuses on innovative solutions in the fields of vacuum coating, surface treatment and organic semiÂconductors.
The core competences technologies for the organic electronics and IC/system design are electron beam technology, sputtering, plasma-activated deposition and high-rate PECVD. The Fraunhofer FEP offers a wide range of possibilities for research, development and pilot production, especially for OLED microdisplays, organic and inorganic sensors, optical filters and flexible OLED lighting as well as the processing, sterilization, structuring and refining of surfaces.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research (IAP) develops bio-based and synthetic polymers, from the laboratory to the industrial scale. Applications are diverse across many markets, such as bio-based packaging, lightweight materials, truck tires and more.
One of the applications being researched and developed at the Fraunhofer IAP is luminescent materials for displays. The IAP functional polymer systems division, looks into a broad range of materials, including light-emitting polymers and quantum dots. The focus lies in solution processing of these materials with a strong focus on printing methods.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (Fraunhofer IPMS) has over 200 employees, doing research in electronic, mechanical and optical components and their integration into devices and systems.
The Fraunhofer IPMS has been working on OLED since 2000, and in 2009 launched a new department called COMEDD (the Center for Organics, Materials and Electronic Devices Dresden) to handle its OLED research and pilot fabrication. COMEDD was turned into an independent Fraunhofer Institute in 2012 and now it is a business unit at Fraunhofer FEP.
In January 2009 we interviewed Prof. Karl Leo, Institute Director of the Fraunhofer IPMS.
You can read the latest OLED news from the Fraunhofer Institute here.
Global OLED Technology (GOT) was established in December 2009 when LG bought Kodak's OLED business (in a deal that was estimated at $100 million). GOT owns more than two thousand OLED related patents, and licenses them to other companies.
In 2010, Idemistu Kosan bought 32% of GOT.
Guangdong Juhua Printing Display Technology was established in 2016 by CSoT (66%) and TianMa (34%) with an aim to industrialize printed OLED technologies.
Juhua Printing is an "open innovation platform" guided by the Chinese government that collaborates with both industry and universities to drive the progress of China's display industry and the Guangdong Province specifically.
Holst Centre was setup in 2005 by IMEC (Belgium) and TNO (Holland), with government support. The center is located in Eindhoven, and has around 200 employees and over 20 industrial partners.
The center is an independent R&D operation that develops generic technologies for Wireless Autonomous Transducer Solutions and for Systems-in-Foil. One of the programs in the Holst center is âPrinted Organic Lighting and Signage' - develops device designs for OLED lighting and signage applications, compatible with roll-to-roll (R2R) processing.
IGNIS Innovation, established in Canada in 2000, specializes in providing technologies in the areas of pixel circuits and driver packages for AMOLED displays.
IGNIS focuses on developing AMOLED backplane solutions using industry standard amorphous silicon (with compensation) polysilicon or other TFT technologies. They also develop specialized driver electronics and related OLED IP. Towards the end of 2013, Ignis started shipping 55â AMOLED MaxLife prototype samples to potential clients. Ignis is developing AMOLED panels based on LTPS backplanes in collaboration with China's CSoT.
In May 2015, IGNIS raised $14 million. In June 2016 LGD signed a license agreement with Ignis to use its technology in LG's OLED displays.
INT Tech, established in 2016 in Taiwan, developed advanced technologies for the display industry. INT Tech is a public company that went public in Taiwan at the end of 2018.
INT is developing an ultra-high pixel density OLED display (UHPD) and truly-flexible sensor (SPIC) technologies.
In January 2020 INT Tech produced its first prototype display - a 0.7" 2,300 PPI real RGB side-by-side AMOLED display. In April 2020 INT Tech signed an agreement to establish a $143 million OLED display fab in the city of Taizhou in Zhejiang province, China.
Intellectual Keystone Technology (IKT) was established by Samsung Display Corporation on March 2013 in the US to handle patent development and trading. SDC invested $25 million in IKT, and the company offers an IP portfolio for OLED displays, OLED lighting, encapsulation, materials, LCDs, LTPS/ELA, flexible displays and more.
In April 2013 IKT bought several patents owned by Seiko Epson, reportedly related to LCD and OLED display technologies.
Intellectual Property Exchange International, Inc. (IPXI) is the world's first financial exchange for licensing and trading intellectual property rights with market-based pricing and standardized terms. The exchange operates under two core principles: transparency and efficiency.
In June 2013, IPXI launched its first product offering, a portfolio of 600+ patent assets owned by Philips related to organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology for display screen applications.
Taiwan's ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute) is a national research organization, with a mission of conducting technological research, promoting industrial development, creating economic value and improving social welfare for Taiwan. ITRI, founded in 1973, is the largest applied technology R&D institution in Taiwan.
ITRI is involved with AMOLED technology and seems to be focused currently on flexible OLEDs and efficient blue OLED emissive materials. It also has active research on e-paper displays.
In 2016 ITRI demonstrated foldable and rollable OLED technologies, as ITRI become's Taiwan's main facilitator for flexible OLED commercialization.
N-tech research (previously NanoMarkets) provides market research and industry analysis for the advanced materials and emerging energy and electronics markets.
N-tech provides reports covering OLED lighting, OLED encapsulation, OLED materials and more.
Nanomatch is an SME based in Germany and develops predictive, adjustable virtual design tools for organic electronic applications. The company's multiscale simulation toolkit translates molecular properties to the device scale, thereby bridging the gap between fundamental chemistry and device design.
Nanomatch's parameter-free, microscopic simulation approach can aid to develop fundamental understanding of how molecular properties determine device peformance by triggering and balancing microscopic processes.
