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

9712253威尔逊*这个第一阶段小型企业技术转移项目寻求在短期内将聚合物发光二极管的技术基础作为灵活、轻便、坚固的显示器推向商业市场。然而，在消费者完全感受到这项新技术的实现之前，必须解决几个重要的材料问题，包括器件效率、寿命、故障机制和封装。最近，由于小有机分子(通常是ALQ-OLED)和聚合物发光二极管(PLED)的引入，平板显示器领域产生了巨大的兴奋。这些发展将通常与聚合物薄膜相关的低成本制造与生产市场上未知的坚固、轻便和灵活的非平面显示器的机会结合在一起。与众所周知的液晶显示器相比，基于有机的LED显示器的另一个显著优势是消除了视角限制。这项研究的直接商业应用是聚合物或小有机分子发光二极管柔性显示器的近乎密封的封装。食品包装行业的其他应用将受益于新的透明超高阻隔薄膜。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. ***