Universal Display Awarded SBIR Phase I Grant for OLED Development
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Author: LIGHTimes Staff

September 16, 2008... Universal Display of Ewing, New Jersey USA, announced that it has been awarded a Department of Energy Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase I grant under the department’s Solid State Lighting program. The company will receive $99,919 in grant funding for its program entitled ‘Enhanced Light Outcoupling in WOLEDs’. The program will reportedly focus on a novel optical outcoupling technique. The company hopes to make to double the outcoupling efficiency of the WOLEDs to about 50 percent external quantom efficiency.

The company points out that it will use its UniversalPhoLED technology to improve the outcoupling efficiency. Universal Display boasts that its UniversalPhoLED technology can achieve up to 100 percent internal quantum efficiency. The company notes that typically, only about 20 percent of the electricity can produce light that is emitted in a useful direction.

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