NSF Award
0215197
This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is structured around the design,<br/>synthesis of new organic electroluminescent (OEL) materials, and their innovative<br/>applications in fabricating frozen-junction polymer light-emitting electrochemical cells<br/>(LECs) - an alternative to organic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) displays. Reveo has<br/>identified the OEL display as the most promising display technology of the future and the<br/>solution that best meets the new demands for bright, portable displays. These bright,<br/>thin displays will eventually replace expensive flat panel liquid crystal displays (LCDs),<br/>but they have not yet seen huge commercial success because of the poor OEL materials and<br/>non-optimized device fabrication techniques. The mission of this program is therefore to<br/>develop, optimize, and commercialize new OEL materials and devices that will make OEL<br/>displays the new market standard in the multi-billion dollar display market. <br/> LECs fabricated with these new materials are predicted to have high luminescence<br/>efficiency, high brightness, and longer lifetime compared with current OEL displays. The<br/>new materials thus have excellent commercial potential as the enabling technology behind<br/>the next generation of full-color, low-cost, flat panel OEL displays.
