eMagin, IBM Team for OLED Display Development

IBMst keep hogging the limelight, as organic light-emitting diode (OLED) microdisplay developer eMagin (Hopewell Junction, NY) revealed a joint development agreement with <%=company%> (Armonk, NY) focusing on OLED technology for virtual imaging applications.

Under terms of the agreement, the two companies will share information and work together on OLED-on-silicon technology that will be incorporated into microdisplays. According to Susan Jones, vice president of eMagin, the agreement does not involve any financial terms as such. The arrangement actually began late last year, but was only recently made public.

Through its Almaden (San Jose, CA), Watson (Yorktown Heights, NY), and Zurich research facilities, IBM has been working for several years on organic electronics, including OLED displays. Because the technology being developed by eMagin and IBM is built directly on silicon integrated circuits, many computer and video electronic systems functions could potentially be embedded, which would result in a very compact integrated system with lower overall system costs.

The joint development is being co-managed by Dr. Webster Howard, eMagin's vice president of Technology; Dr. Erik Harris, Director of Subsystems Technologies and Application Laboratory, IBM Research; and Dr. Walter Riess, Manager of Display Technology at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory.

Edited by Kristin Lewotsky