EE Times

(11/09/2005 10:21 AM EST)

MANHASSET, N.Y. — eMagin Corp. has teamed with the Univ. of Michigan`s Solid-State Electronics Laboratory (SSEL) to win a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract from The Office of Naval Research to study novel approaches for thin-film encapsulation. This research will enable small, lightweight displays and, potentially, flexible displays.

For this project, eMagin Corp. (Bellevue, Wa.) and the Univ. of Michigan team will demonstrate a rugged and reliable thin-film encapsulation method for OLED displays.

``This award will advance technology to foster new generations of displays,`` said Susan Jones, executive vice president and chief marketing officer, eMagin Corp., in a statement. ``The promise of this research is a rugged, low-cost encapsulation technique and process that can be applied to microdisplays as well as larger format OLED devices.``

According to professor Jerzy Kanicki, head of the Organic & Molecular Electronics research group at the University of Michigan, ``This project should enable us to move key technology from the lab to the customer and enable a whole new generation of display products.``