Seminars

The Coming Surge of OLED Technology

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Barry Young

Abstract

In 2011, >100m OLED displays were shipped into the smartphone, games and lighting markets and the revenue was around US$4B. In 2012, shipment volume and revenue are expected to more than double and the first high volume TVs (55") will be shipped. OLEDs are moving into a golden age, where volume and revenue growth is exceeded by innovation and challenges. OLEDs represent a marriage of organic chemistry, thin film technology and lighting science. It presents the world of research extraordinary opportunities to challenge the status quo vs. LC Displays and LED lighting. OLEDs offer new degrees of freedom for R&D with respect to quantum physics, light extraction, flexible substrates, transparent conductors and materials. In 2012, the first flexible OLED will be commercialized and these new products will demonstrate the opportunity to improve on low temperature deposition, printing, low resistance, transparent conductors, and organic TFTs. The presentation will discuss the opportunities and challenges available to the researchers in helping the OLED community expand its penetration of the display and lighting markets and broaden its reach into printed electronics. An extensive discussion will be provided on how OLEDs work, their various stack configurations, light refraction, manufacturing requirements and performance characteristics in order to establish a framework for understanding the opportunity.

Speaker Biography

Barry Young is CEO of Young Market Research (YMR) and its primary-lighting analyst and serves as Managing Director of the OLED Association, where he solves industry-wide issues, such as the development of standards for the OLED display and lighting industries. He is also working with a group of OLED suppliers to produce the first US-based pilot line for OLED lighting. A founder of DisplaySearch, Young is one of the leading authorities on OLEDs and flexible displays, and authored DisplaySearch's OLED, flexible-display, small/medium-display and technology reports, during his tenure. Before joining DisplaySearch, Young was CEO and president of OWL Displays, where he co-developed innovative driver technology for amorphous silicon (a-Si) and polysilicon (p-Si) TFT LCDs, and was awarded key patents for driving low-temperature polysilicon TFT LCDs. Before OWL, he was vice president and general manager of Tandem's integrity system division. He has also served as managing partner at Booz Allen & Hamilton, executive vice president at Wells Fargo Bank, senior vice president at Citibank and president and CEO of Lexar, an early developer of an all-digital PBX.