eMagin OLEDs Enable Saab's New Virtual Image Display

Business Wire, Oct 29, 2007

Low-Power, Rugged OLED Unit Offers Compact, Easy-to-Read Viewer

BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Saab Avitronics has chosen eMagin (OTC:EMAN) microdisplays for its news Multi-Purpose Virtual Image Display (VID). The unit comprises high-performance magnifying optics and the OLED, sealed in an aluminum casing.

Saab's compact VID is suitable for combat vehicles, aircraft, helicopters, and naval vessels using a wide range of sensors such as electro-optical, infrared, low-light television, and radars. Its collimating lens provides a comfortable viewing distance even at very close range. Sealed in an aluminum casing, the VID offers a compact, lightweight, rugged alternative to legacy CRT-based systems.

According to Torbjorn Lonnqvist, Senior Marketing and Sales Executive, Saab Avitronics, "The combination of our collimating lens with the OLED microdisplay delivers important visual data in a substantially smaller package, barely half the size of legacy systems."

"Saab's VID will save valuable space inside cockpits; its collimating lens delivers an easy-to-read image regardless of the viewer's proximity to the screen," said Susan Jones, executive vice president, eMagin Corporation. "Their design illustrates how well OLED-based microdisplays can deliver a projected image."

About OLED

Owing to the inherent benefits of its OLED technology, eMagin's microdisplays deliver the resolution, brightness, and speed for a broad range of defense and security applications - at the lowest system power of any near-eye solution. With signal processing built right into the microdisplay chip, they also eliminate the need for additional processor chips that add complexity and consume additional power. Since they emit light in all directions, OLED microdisplays also accommodate a greater range of pupil movement than traditional LCDs. The world's lowest power display solution, they provide soldiers with critical information for extended periods in harsh environments, ranging from extreme cold to high heat without additional heaters or coolers. In addition, because the displays are solid-state, they hold the image, even in high-vibration environments.

About Saab Avitronics

Saab Avitronics offers technology, products and services within Electronic Warfare as well as airborne mission and utility sub-systems to defense forces and industries world wide. The product portfolio includes Electronic Warfare systems for airborne, marine and land applications as well as mission systems such as reconnaissance systems, display and sighting systems and digital recording systems, as well as safety-critical utility and control systems and modular avionics for fighters, helicopters, transport as well as commercial aircraft.

Saab Avitronics is a business unit within Saab, a company that serves the global market with world-leading products, services and solutions ranging from military defense to civil security. Saab has operations and employees on all continents and constantly develops, adopts and improves new technology to meet customers' changing needs. Saab has 13,600 employees. Annual sales are EUR 2,3 billion. Research and development corresponds to about 20 percent of annual sales.

www.saabgroup.com

About eMagin Corporation

A leader in OLED microdisplay technology and personal display systems, eMagin integrates high-resolution OLED microdisplays with magnifying optics to deliver virtual images comparable to large-screen computer and television displays in portable, low-power, lightweight personal displays. eMagin microdisplays provide near-eye imagery in a variety of products from military, industrial, medical and consumer OEMs. The company's own Z800 3DVisor(TM) provides 3D stereovision and headtracking for PC gaming, training and simulation, immersion therapy, and other applications. eMagin's microdisplay manufacturing and R&D operations are co-located with IBM on its campus in East Fishkill, New York. System design facilities and sales and marketing are located in Bellevue, Washington. For more information about eMagin and its OLED microdisplays, visit www.emagin.com.