Inkjet printer to advance university OLED work

A Cambridge Display Technology product story

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Jun 7, 2006

Cambridge Display Technology has sold an inkjet printing system and associated knowhow to the National University of Singapore.

Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) has sold an inkjet printing system and associated knowhow to the National University of Singapore (NUS).

CDT expects this will boost the university's already impressive rate of progress in the development of polymer electronics technologies.

In addition to installing a sophisticated Litrex 120 system, CDT will provide knowhow based on extensive experience - gained at its Technology Development Centre - of inkjet printing for the evaluation and preproduction of P-OLED displays.

NUS has built significant expertise in the exploratory development of polymer transistor and logic circuits for plastic semiconductor electronics research at its Organic Nano Device Laboratory (ONDL), and has established an infrastructure that supports interdepartmental collaboration in this field.

Several members of its faculty have long experience, including Dr Peter Ho, who heads the effort at the ONDL and has been active in this area for more than eight years.

This polymer inkjet research project is part of multi-disciplinary, multi-departmental work partially funded by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), a government body which seeks to support advanced science and technology which has high growth potential.

Inkjet printing is now becoming established as an important technique for the production of future P-OLED displays and plastic semiconductor electronics, combining as it does the ability to print extremely small drops of fluids with high precision, good material utilisation and scalability to large substrate sizes.

For CDT, Dr David Fyfe, CEO said: "We are delighted to be working with a partner producing such high quality work as the National University of Singapore".

"I am sure they will contribute substantially both to the science and its application".

Commenting for NUS, Professor Eng-Chye Tan, Dean of the Faculty of Science said: "I am looking forward to this infrastructure upgrade by the Organic Nano Device Laboratory in partnership with CDT".

"This is a milestone that will greatly enhance the impact of NUS and Singapore in the field".