STTR PHASE I: Novel Barrier Materials for Shelf-Life Enhancement of Flexible Flat Panel Displays

小行星9712253 *** 第一阶段的小企业技术转让项目旨在将聚合物发光二极管的基础技术引入商业市场，在短期内成为灵活、轻便、坚固的显示器。然而，在消费者能够感受到这项新技术的全面实现之前，必须解决几个重要的材料问题，包括器件效率、寿命、失效机制和包装。 近来，通过引入小有机分子（通常为Alq-OLED）和聚合物发光二极管（pLED），在平板显示器领域中产生了巨大的兴奋。 这些发展联合收割机将通常与聚合物膜相关的低成本制造与生产迄今为止在市场上未知的坚固、轻质和柔性的非平面显示器的机会相结合。 基于有机的LED显示器相对于其众所周知的液晶表兄弟的另一个显著优点是消除了视角约束。 这项研究的直接商业应用是聚合物或有机小分子发光二极管为基础的柔性显示器的近密封封装。食品包装行业的其他应用将受益于新型透明超高阻隔薄膜。 这些应用包括啤酒瓶、餐盘、军用食品包装等。*

9712253 Wilson *** This Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer project seeks to bring a technology fundamental to polymer light emitting diodes to the commercial marketplace as flexible lightweight, robust displays in the near-term. Before the full realization of this new technology can be felt by the consumer, however, several important materials issues must be addressed, including device efficiency, lifetime, failure mechanisms, and packaging. Recently, tremendous excitement has been generated in the field of flat panel displays by the introduction of small organic molecule (typically Alq - OLEDS) and polymer light emitting diodes (pLEDs). These developments combine low cost manufacturing normally associated with polymeric films with the opportunity to produce robust, lightweight and flexible non planar displays hereto unknown in the marketplace. Another significant advantage of organic based LED displays over their well known liquid crystal cousins is the elimination of viewing angle constraints. The immediate commercial application of this research is for near-hermetic packaging of polymer or small organic molecule light emitting diode based flexible displays. Other applications in the food packaging industry will benefit from new, transparent ultra-high barrier films. These applications include beer bottles, meal trays, food packaging for military uses, etc. ***