MicroEmissive Displays’ Co-founder to Present at two key Conferences
Professor Ian Underwood, CTO, and co-founder of MicroEmissive Displays will be presenting papers at two key U.S. conferences in the Fall
[UKPRwire, Fri Sep 28 2007] Professor Ian Underwood, CTO, and co-founder of MicroEmissive Displays will be presenting papers at two key U.S. conferences in the Fall.
On Wednesday November 7th, at the OLED World Summit 2007, Professor Underwood will present a paper entitled “A Close Look at P-OLED Microdisplays”. The OLED World Summit takes place at the Hilton Torrey Pines Hotel, La Jolla, California from 5th – 7th November and provides a forum for display developers, material and equipment manufacturers, users and investors in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) to discuss critical issues facing OLED technology today.
At the Printed Electronics 2007 Conference and Exhibition, Professor Underwood has been invited to speak on the subject, “P-OLED Microdisplays.” The conference, which takes place at the South San Francisco Conference Centre on the 12th – 15th November, is an international event aimed at product developers, end users, researchers and scientists.
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) following a fourth successful funding round, which raised £15.7 M. Funding has been used for proof of principle, technology development and establishing pre-production facilities in Edinburgh, culminating in the first product release and commercial shipments of MicroEmissive Displays’ eyescreen™ microdisplays in December 2005.
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 2007. MicroEmissive Displays is headquartered at the Scottish Microelectronics Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland and its manufacturing site is in Dresden, Germany. The company employs 62 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
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
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