Lithography: A proven option for next-gen mobile OLED displays

Novus Light Technologies Today highlights imec’s breakthrough for OLED display manufacturing.

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In short

With the rising popularity of OLED-displays, some specific challenges emerge in mobile and micro-display domains.


Imec demonstrates the viability of photolithography as a prime candidate to overcome the shortcomings of the main         manufacturing technologies currently used in the OLED-display domain.
 

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Authors

Tung-Huei Ke, research and development manager at imec, wearing glasses and a white shirt against a blurred green background.

Tung-Huei Ke

Research And Development Manager at imec
Author

Dr. Tung-Huei Ke obtained BSc and Ph.D. degrees at National Taiwan University in 2003 and 2009, respectively. He was the visiting scholar in TU Dresden in Prof. Karl Leo’s group and in Kyushu University in Prof. Chihaya Adachi’s group for high-performance OLED and OLET studies in 2007 and 2008, respectively. Dr. Ke joined imec, Belgium in 2011 as technical lead in a cross-nation European Union project (COSMIC) for organic CMOS technology development for ultra-low power logic applications. Since 2013, Dr. Ke has been working on developing integration techniques to employ organic semiconductors for hybrid electronics applications. He currently focuses on the photolithography processes to realize high-resolution OLED/PD array side-by-side and the corresponding degradation mechanisms of the organic devices caused by the extrinsic processes. 

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