A dramatic drop in the cost of OLED displays could be on the horizon thanks to an OLED printing technology currently being tested by California based Kateeva. The startup company told the MIT Technology Review that its equipment could print OLED displays for 60 per cent of the cost of LCDs. The large area OLED printers should be sent for testing by display manufacturers next year.
The company’s proprietary printing technology is exclusively
licensed from the Massachusetts' Institute of Technology (MIT).
The Institute explains in its Technology Review that
all OLED displays are currently manufactured by an
expensive small-scale technique called shadow-mask evaporation. The article
claims that other efforts to find techniques capable
of large-scale manufacture have impacted negatively on display
performance and lifetime.
For a Technology Review video
explaining the manufacturing technique behind the OLED manufacture
click here.