Universal Display Corporation the Company that's lighting the way in developing and commercializing OLED technology for displays, lighting and other opto-electronics, announced today that it has been awarded a nine-month, $98,894 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The goal of this new program is to demonstrate an innovative approach to increase the brightness and power efficiency of white OLED lighting using Universal Display’s proprietary PHOLED⢠phosphorescent OLED and OVPD Organic Vapor Phase Deposition technologies.
In this program entitled, High Efficiency White Mesh Phosphorescent OLEDs, the Company will work to increase OLED efficiency and brightness by employing novel emissive layer architectures that are enabled through the use of its proprietary OVPD process technology.
