Kateeva partners with Sumitomo Chemical on RGB OLED inkjet printing
Kateeva (Menlo Park, CA) and Sumitomo Chemical announced a partnership to match Sumitomo's inks with Kateeva's inkjet printing equipment platform to make it easier for display manufacturers to deploy inkjet-printed RGB OLEDs for large-size TVs. The companies will co-develop reference data for customers, who will benefit from a tested and optimized solution.
Kateeva says its new YIELDjet FLEX product enables low-cost, high-yield thin film encapsulation (TFE) for flexible OLED displays. It is the first product to emerge from the YIELDjet platform and offers an alternative to vacuum evaporation technologies. The same platform can be applied to print RGB OLED TVs. Sumitomo Chemical's OLED material, which is the polymer OLED (PLED) type, is suitable for printing, and enables effective mass production of large-size OLED displays.
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The partnership is non-exclusive and aims to equip the global display industry with novel tools and technologies to help mainstream OLED TVs. Kateeva is headquartered in Silicon Valley, maintains operations in Korea
Source: Kateeva
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Conard Holton has 25 years of science and technology editing and writing experience. He was formerly a staff member and consultant for government agencies such as the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and the International Atomic Energy Agency, and engineering companies such as Bechtel. He joined Laser Focus World in 1997 as senior editor, becoming editor in chief of WDM Solutions, which he founded in 1999. In 2003 he joined Vision Systems Design as editor in chief, while continuing as contributing editor at Laser Focus World. Conard became editor in chief of Laser Focus World in August 2011, a role in which he served through August 2018. He then served as Editor at Large for Laser Focus World and Co-Chair of the Lasers & Photonics Marketplace Seminar from August 2018 through January 2022. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, with additional studies at the Colorado School of Mines and Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.