MED’s Underwood to present at First Asian Plastic Electronics
Professor Ian Underwood, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Adviser at MicroEmissive Displays (MED), will be presenting a talk entitled, “P-OLED microdisplays progress into the market” at the inaugural Asian Plastic Electronics event in Seoul, Korea from the 24th – 26th June
[UKPRwire, Tue Jun 03 2008] Professor Ian Underwood, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Adviser at MicroEmissive Displays (MED), will be presenting a talk entitled, “P-OLED microdisplays progress into the market” at the inaugural Asian Plastic Electronics event in Seoul, Korea from the 24th – 26th June.
Professor Underwood will speak on day two of the event in the Displays session. The talk will cover an introduction to microdisplay technology and its applications; P-OLED microdisplay technology, products and progress being made in its commercialisation.
The Plastic Electronics Foundation and IntertechPira present the 1st Asian Plastic Electronics Conference and Showcase. With over 50 speakers across five parallel symposia, the event offers a breadth and depth of industry knowledge. The Plastic Electronics conference is a three day international conference and showcase, which is expected to attract a global audience of scientists, researchers, engineers, developers and business executives. For further information please visit: http://plastic-electronics.org/event/subpages/home.php
About MicroEmissive Displays
MicroEmissive Displays (MED - AIM, London Stock Exchange) is a leader in polymer organic light emitting diode (P-OLED) microdisplay technology. The company was founded in 1999 and has developed a unique emissive microdisplay technology by using a P-OLED layer on a CMOS substrate. In late 2004, MicroEmissive Displays floated on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM) and the first product release and commercial shipments of MicroEmissive Displays’ eyescreen™ microdisplays were made in 2005. The company held the official opening of its volume manufacturing facility in Dresden, Germany in May 2007.
MicroEmissive Displays has been awarded ISO 9001:2000 registration for the research, design, development and marketing of digital microdisplay solutions and is working towards full accreditation in 2008. MicroEmissive Displays is headquartered at the Scottish Microelectronics Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland and its manufacturing site is in Dresden, Germany. The company employs more than 70 people and also has sales representatives and applications support located in Asia, the USA and Europe.
About eyescreen™
MicroEmissive Displays’ eyescreen™ products are the world’s only polymer organic light emitting diode (P-OLED) microdisplays. The full colour eyescreen™ combines superb TV quality moving video images that are free from flicker, with ultra-low power consumption, enabling greatly extended battery life for the consumer. This enhancement in battery usage time made possible by the eyescreen™ will play a vital role in the widespread adoption of portable head-sets for personal TV and video viewing in the consumer marketplace. The innovative design of the eyescreen™, with its integrated driver ICs and its digital interface, offers product design engineers a fast, robust design-in solution for smaller, lighter-weight, stylish products of the future, all for a size comparable with the pupil of the human eye.
Awards
Finalist at the Elektra Awards 2007 in the Research and Development category
Short-listed for the Best of British Industry Awards 2006, Next Generation Award
Winner of IEE Innovation in Engineering Award 2005, Emerging Technologies Award
Winner Gannochy Medal 2004, Professor Ian Underwood - Scotland’s Top Innovator
Winner European Semiconductor Start-Up of the Year 2004
Listed in Tornado Insider’s Top 100 in 2003
Listed in Tornado Insider’s Top 100 in 2002
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For further information please contact:
Dr Natalie Polack, Product Marketing Manager, MicroEmissive Displays
Scottish Microelectronics Centre, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JF
Tel: + 44 (0) 131 650 7764; Fax: + 44 (0) 131 650 7761
E-mail: info@microemissive.com; Web: www.microemissive.com
