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AIXTRON AG secures exclusive license for OLED manufacturing equipment from Universal Display Corporation (UDC), US.

AIXTRON AG, Germany, and Universal Display Corporation (UDC) of Princeton NJ, a leading developer of flat panel display technology, have entered into an exclusive development and license agreement to develop and fabricate OLED (organic light emitting device) production equipment based on an innovative low cost, precise, high throughput process called OVPD (organic vapor phase deposition). Universal Display Corporation (UDC) holds the rights for a number of patents for organic light emitting devices (OLEDs) including the OVPD production technology. AIXTRON AG receives a worldwide, exclusive license for the OVPD related patents. AIXTRON and UDC will develop the OLED production equipment together which will be sold exclusively by AIXTRON. Plans to install a demonstration pre-production system next year at the UDC facility are underway.

The partnership between AIXTRON and UDC is designed to provide the next generation of OLED fabrication equipment and processes that proved to have the potential for higher resolution displays due to smaller pixel size compared to other OLED technology and can dramatically reduce the cost of producing OLED displays:
"High efficiency devices and low cost manufacturing processes are key aspects for OLED's to become a mainstream display technology. Our patents on innovative OVPD and OLED technology represent important advances towards that goal", said Steven V. Abramson, President and COO of UDC.
"OVPD provides a fundamentally new solution to the problems encountered in the low cost, high precision mass production of molecular organic displays," said Dr. Stephen Forrest, Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department at Princeton University and a principal inventor of the OVPD technology.
"As the world leading supplier of semiconductor production equipment to the LED industry (for large screen outdoor video displays, signaling and illumination), AIXTRON is excited to further extend its equipment diversification by adding OVPD machines for OLEDs, to be able to serve a wider range of display manufacturing customers while using synergies in the market and applications," comments Dr. Holger Juergensen, President of AIXTRON.

AIXTRON AG offers a wide range of CVD and epitaxial equipment for multicomponent materials like compound semiconductors, dielectrics and ferroelectrics. The production equipment scales to 20x4" or 9x6" batch processes, or 8"/300 mm bridge tools, of which a variant will be developed for OVPD. AIXTRON has installed over 350 systems worldwide and is represented in over 15 countries, providing an extensive service and support network. AIXTRON equipment is being used in manufacturing of LED and optoelectronic components by customers like Agilent/LumiLeds (subs. H-P), Alcatel, Anritsu, Epistar, Epson, JDS-Uniphase, Lucent, Mitsubishi Electric, NEC, Nortel, OSRAM, Samsung, ShowaDenko, Sumitomo, Thomson, UEC, VPEC, and many renowned research institutes and Universities worldwide.  

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