COMEDD (Center of Organic Materials and Electronic Devices Dresden) at Plastic Electronics Conference 2007
29 Noviembre 2007 - 30 Noviembre 2007
Austria
Organic Materials make various new devices for the information technology possible. Displays based on organic light-emitting diodes are already established on the market. Further applications are among others OLED lighting solutions, signage, organic solar cells or memories.
In the last years Dresden has developed to a research center for organic materials and systems. In order to transfer the results to production further improvements in the production process and the establishment as well as the testing of first pilot-production lines are necessary. That is why a Center of Organic Materials and Electronic Devices Dresden (COMEDD) was founded at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS). COMEDD combines research and development activities for the production, integration and technology of organic devices. The mission of COMEDD is the customer and application specific research, development and pilot production of novel device concepts and production methods for vacuum deposited organic materials. The aim of this center is actually the creation of a production-related and European-wide leading research and development center for organic semiconductors focussing on organic light-emitting diodes and vacuum technology. The activities are supported by the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, the Free-State of Saxony, the German State as well as by the EU with additional investments of 25 millions Euros for the infrastructure.
By dint of COMEDD the existing prototype production lines of the Fraunhofer IPMS are supplemented. The additional infrastructure consists of three production lines, which will be implemented in a 900 m² class 10 cleanroom:
• Pilot production line for the production of OLEDS and organic solar cells on 370 x 470 mm² substrates
• Pilot production line for 150 mm and 200 mm wafer for the OLED integration in CMOS substrates
• Pilot production line for a roll-to-roll deposition on flexible substrates
The implementation of the pilot production lines will be completed by the end of 2008 and 2009 for the roll-to-roll line respectively.
The center offers research, development and pilot production especially for the following fields of application:
1. OLED lighting and signage
2. OLED on CMOS integration
3. Organic Solar Cells
The Fraunhofer IPMS shows exhibits at Plastic Electronics dealing with:
1. Lighting based on OLEDs
Incandescent and fluorescent lamps are light sources with sophisticated production technology and functionality, which dominate the today’s general lighting technology. During the last decade the LEDs based on semiconductors have reached a development status, which is beyond its original functionality and application areas (indicator/status/signal lights and display technology).
Lighting based on organic light-emitting diodes are in comparison to LEDs still in the development phase, but show already a big potential for the light source of the future and will complement the LEDs as second important solid light source: an enormous growth market. With flexible or transparent OLEDs completely new lightings are feasible.
COMEDD of Fraunhofer IPMS will exhibit white flat light sources for the direct illumination and transparent display elements for the automotive industry at its stand at the Plastic Electronics.
2. OLED on silicon integration
So far there is no technology capable in combining monolithic integration of highly efficient and stable light sources into standard silicon CMOS. For the first time OLED technology allows both large-area deposition and micro-patterning of light emitters on top of uppermost metal layers of CMOS chips. Therefore CMOS active area space below the OLED electrode is available for additional circuitry in a System-on-Chip setup, including OLED driving (as minor part of it). OLED processing is performed by post-processing at wafer-level. return of the wafers into CMOS processes is not required. Major applications are expected for microdisplays and optoelectronics (organic microsystems).
Applications microdisplays:
- electronic viewfinder
- projection
- head mounted displays (mobile communication, consumer electronic, ...)
- optical inspection
- patterend illumination
Applications optoelectronics:
- light barriers (reflection type)
- opto-couplers
- optical sensors (chemical, medical --> fluorescence, photoplethysmography,...)
- communication (chip-to-chip, board-to-board, chip-to board)
Additonally the OLED fabrication technology offers firstly the possibility to integrate highly efficient light source into silicon to establish a new class of organic based microsystems. The Fraunhofer IPMS offers developments in this novel application area. At show the Fraunhofer IPMS presents highly efficient OLEDs integrated into silicon backplanes in the form of rows or arrays for opto electronic and microdisplay applications.
Jörg Amelung presents the Fraunhofer IPMS OLED-on-CMOS work at the Organic/Inorganic Symposium, at 29th October 2007.
In the last years Dresden has developed to a research center for organic materials and systems. In order to transfer the results to production further improvements in the production process and the establishment as well as the testing of first pilot-production lines are necessary. That is why a Center of Organic Materials and Electronic Devices Dresden (COMEDD) was founded at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS). COMEDD combines research and development activities for the production, integration and technology of organic devices. The mission of COMEDD is the customer and application specific research, development and pilot production of novel device concepts and production methods for vacuum deposited organic materials. The aim of this center is actually the creation of a production-related and European-wide leading research and development center for organic semiconductors focussing on organic light-emitting diodes and vacuum technology. The activities are supported by the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, the Free-State of Saxony, the German State as well as by the EU with additional investments of 25 millions Euros for the infrastructure.
By dint of COMEDD the existing prototype production lines of the Fraunhofer IPMS are supplemented. The additional infrastructure consists of three production lines, which will be implemented in a 900 m² class 10 cleanroom:
• Pilot production line for the production of OLEDS and organic solar cells on 370 x 470 mm² substrates
• Pilot production line for 150 mm and 200 mm wafer for the OLED integration in CMOS substrates
• Pilot production line for a roll-to-roll deposition on flexible substrates
The implementation of the pilot production lines will be completed by the end of 2008 and 2009 for the roll-to-roll line respectively.
The center offers research, development and pilot production especially for the following fields of application:
1. OLED lighting and signage
2. OLED on CMOS integration
3. Organic Solar Cells
The Fraunhofer IPMS shows exhibits at Plastic Electronics dealing with:
1. Lighting based on OLEDs
Incandescent and fluorescent lamps are light sources with sophisticated production technology and functionality, which dominate the today’s general lighting technology. During the last decade the LEDs based on semiconductors have reached a development status, which is beyond its original functionality and application areas (indicator/status/signal lights and display technology).
Lighting based on organic light-emitting diodes are in comparison to LEDs still in the development phase, but show already a big potential for the light source of the future and will complement the LEDs as second important solid light source: an enormous growth market. With flexible or transparent OLEDs completely new lightings are feasible.
COMEDD of Fraunhofer IPMS will exhibit white flat light sources for the direct illumination and transparent display elements for the automotive industry at its stand at the Plastic Electronics.
2. OLED on silicon integration
So far there is no technology capable in combining monolithic integration of highly efficient and stable light sources into standard silicon CMOS. For the first time OLED technology allows both large-area deposition and micro-patterning of light emitters on top of uppermost metal layers of CMOS chips. Therefore CMOS active area space below the OLED electrode is available for additional circuitry in a System-on-Chip setup, including OLED driving (as minor part of it). OLED processing is performed by post-processing at wafer-level. return of the wafers into CMOS processes is not required. Major applications are expected for microdisplays and optoelectronics (organic microsystems).
Applications microdisplays:
- electronic viewfinder
- projection
- head mounted displays (mobile communication, consumer electronic, ...)
- optical inspection
- patterend illumination
Applications optoelectronics:
- light barriers (reflection type)
- opto-couplers
- optical sensors (chemical, medical --> fluorescence, photoplethysmography,...)
- communication (chip-to-chip, board-to-board, chip-to board)
Additonally the OLED fabrication technology offers firstly the possibility to integrate highly efficient light source into silicon to establish a new class of organic based microsystems. The Fraunhofer IPMS offers developments in this novel application area. At show the Fraunhofer IPMS presents highly efficient OLEDs integrated into silicon backplanes in the form of rows or arrays for opto electronic and microdisplay applications.
Jörg Amelung presents the Fraunhofer IPMS OLED-on-CMOS work at the Organic/Inorganic Symposium, at 29th October 2007.