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Add-Vision (“AVI”) is located in Scotts Valley, California and is developing a truly disruptive polymer Organic Light-Emitting Diode (P-OLED) display technology. The flexible display technology offers robust display characteristics and can be fabricated using high-speed printing techniques onto flexible substrates. AVI’s technology opens the door to the manufacture of P-OLED displays that is high throughput, large-area, web-compatible, and air-processable. The company’s flexible display technology enables the ability to the display of dynamic information and specialty lighting effects in a host applications that might not otherwise be possible with other display technologies.
Background:
In 2000, AVI began investigating a display technology to go beyond the performance and cost limitations of thick-film EL and inorganic LEDs. At this time, Cambridge Display Technology’s (CDT) P-OLED display technology was rising as a next-generation flat panel display (FPD) technology to replace LCD and plasma display technologies for high-resolution display applications. P-OLEDs are light-emitting devices that offer high brightness potential (>> 100 Cd/m2), low voltage operation (~ 3 VDC), long operating lifetimes, wide color gamut, and dynamic messaging capabilities.
In 2001, AVI began focusing on developing a modified P-OLED display technology specifically for low-resolution display and specialty lighting applications where a new, disruptive approach could have a rapid impact. This required AVI to chart a significantly different development path than ones pursued by the RGB high-resolution display industry. In 2002, AVI’s development effort paid off when the company demonstrated the world’s first flexible P-OLED device that could be fully printed in ambient (air), including its top electrode, using only conventional printing equipment and practices.
.jpg) .jpg) Since inception of its own P-OLED effort in 2001, AVI has seen rapid progress in technology development and now can deliver fully printed devices matching performance requirements for a number of target applications. Along with this technology development, AVI has been building out its Intellectual Property (IP) portfolio. The company’s IP covers all critical areas of display technology, including device structures, ink formulations, printing and processing methods, printable cathode technology and flexible encapsulation. In March 2005, AVI formed a strategic alliance and IP agreement with CDT (www.cdtltd.co.uk). The strategic agreement provides AVI the rights to license and sub-license CDT’s patent portfolio when used in conjunction with AVI’s technology for the manufacture of low-resolution displays and specialty lighting products. In effect, AVI has become a “one-stop shop” for IP in P-OLED display technology for its target markets. This greatly facilitates the licensing and technology adoption for display manufacturers.
Today, AVI is now in the early stages of commercializing its IP package and related print-based P-OLED solution. AVI is building partnerships with leading display manufacturers to scale up the manufacturing to high production volume. With their robust display characteristics and low cost of manufacture, our display technology is expected to impact ‘smart’ media products, smart cards, point-of-purchase displays, backlights for mobile and consumer appliances, touch interface panels, and electronic signage, to name a few.
AVI is backed by a committed syndicate of private-equity and strategic investors.
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