Kodak's Ching Tang Honored for Discovering OLED Displays; Society for Information Display, Cites Advances in Flat-Panel Display Technology

Business Wire, May 22, 2002

Business & Hi-Tech Editors

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2002

Eastman Kodak Company's Dr. Ching Tang has been named a Fellow of the Society for Information Display (SID) for his pioneering work in the discovery of organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology.

The technology promises to make full-color, full-motion displays brighter, thinner and easier to read.

The citation bestowed at SID's annual conference in Boston, honors scientists for their accomplishments and tenure in the field of information display. Dr. Tang, a senior research associate with Kodak's Research & Development organization, was cited by SID for significant contributions to the display industry.

Established in 1963, the SID Fellow citation is one of the most coveted distinctions in the display industry and is awarded to just five recipients each year. Dr. Tang was nominated and selected by his peers for his achievements in developing and sustaining OLED technology. A committee of nine Fellows selected the 2002 Fellows based on criteria including creativity and patents; technical accomplishments and publications; technical leadership; and service to SID.

"Dr. Tang truly deserves this award, not only as the inventor of OLED, but as a key leader in the refinement of the technology," said Dr. James C. Stoffel, senior vice president and chief technical officer, Eastman Kodak Company. "The distinction also brings with it industry recognition of Kodak's leadership in the commercialization of OLED and display technology."

OLED displays comprise self-luminous pixels, which do not require the power-consuming backlights used in liquid crystal displays. With its performance and design advantages, OLED technology will enable a new generation of display devices, such as digital cameras, mobile phones and PDAs. These devices will offer clearer images and crisper video, as well as thinner designs, than similar products that employ LCDs. Dr. Tang and his colleague, Steven Van Slyke, developed the first multi-layer OLEDs in 1987. His current efforts include basic research in OLED materials and device architecture to achieve a higher degree of efficiency, broader color gamut, and longer display life. Dr. Tang is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

In December 2001, Kodak and SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. formed SK Display Corp., a joint venture to manufacture the world's first active-matrix OLED displays.

About Eastman Kodak Company and infoimaging

Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, enhance, preserve, print and enjoy pictures --for memories, for information, for entertainment. The company is a major participant in "infoimaging," a $225 billion industry composed of devices (laser imagers, computed and digital radiography systems), infrastructure (online networks and delivery systems for images) and services & media (software, film and paper enabling people to access, analyze and print images). Kodak harnesses its technology, market reach and a host of industry partnerships to provide innovative products and services for customers who need the information-rich content that images contain. The company, with sales last year of $13.2 billion, is organized into four major businesses: Health, providing computed radiography and digital radiography systems, teleradiology, laser imagers, desktop medical imagers, picture archiving and communications systems, radiology information systems, and traditional mammography and x-ray films; Photography, providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services; Commercial Imaging, offering image capture, output and storage products and services to businesses and government; and Components, delivering flat-panel displays, optics and sensors to original equipment manufacturers.

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