Kodak Receives 2008 OLED Display Technology Leadership Award

Business Wire, March 31, 2008

This product, co-developed by Kodak, LG Display, KAGA Electronics and Andes Electronics will be available in Japan by the end of March 2008.

Another challenge impacting OLED yield is due to poor OLED material utilization during manufacturing. Kodak's proprietary Vapor Injection Source (VIS) technology enables low cost OLED manufacturing by increasing OLED materials utilization to greater than 50%, increasing organic deposition rates and thus reducing manufacturing cycle times (to 2 min or less), and increasing equipment up-time to greater than 85%. In addition this deposition technology has been demonstrated at Gen 5 scale and is scalable to Gen 8 and larger substrates. The technology also enables high yield and easier manufacturing control due to low degradation multi-component deposition from a single source, eliminating out of spec depositions due to incorrect layer compositions or thermal degradation of organic materials.

Material Development to Fuel Future Growth of OLED Improvements: Critical to the success of the OLED display industry is the introduction of improved materials and architectures. Kodak is a leader in this effort, developing improved materials and architectures that continue to provide significant advances in AMOLED displays. For full-color pixilated RGB displays, new materials in development at Kodak provide outstanding lifetime and power consumption. In particular, high-efficiency blue and green dopants that reduce the operating current density; and stable host materials for blue and green emitters have recently been developed. Also, Electron Transporting Layer (ETL) and Electron Injection Layer (EIL) materials have been developed that enable low OLED voltage and high power efficiency. These materials, in combination with the W-RGBW pixel architecture provide advanced displays low power consumption, greater than 100% NTSC x,y color gamut, and are estimated to have a half-life much greater than 100,000 hours (over 11 years of continuous operation). Kodak has also been an innovator in the development of phosphorescent emitting systems.

Further information on Kodak OLED Technology is available at http://www.kodak.com/go/display/.> About Kodak

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