Mattrix Technologies Demonstrates the World’s First WOLED Display Produced Using LCD TV Manufacturing Technology
UF startup and UF Innovate | The Hub resident Mattrix Technologies has demonstrated a new active-matrix OLED display prototype exploiting technology typically used in LCD manufacturing. The innovation behind the demo promises to dramatically reduce the cost of OLED manufacturing and improve the visual quality of high-end displays. The proof-of-concept display was designed and built in collaboration with JSR Corporation, a key supplier of fine electronic materials to the display industry and an investor in Mattrix Technologies.
The demo is the world’s first White-OLED (WOLED) display to use the amorphous-Silicon backplane technology commonly used in LCD-TVs. It has long been assumed impossible to use amorphous-Silicon transistors to power OLED pixels, so this may prove to be a major step forward in reducing manufacturing complexity and improving yields. The implication is that existing (and often fully depreciated) LCD-TV factories could now be readily converted to produce more advanced WOLED TVs – saving hundreds of millions of dollars in capex costs per fab line. Mattrix estimates that the technology could reduce costs by as much as 25% on a per square meter basis, a huge savings for an industry that regularly reports single-digit margins.