Kateeva has devised a method for depositing the OLED materials with inkjet printers and a micro-dryer called a T Jet means thermal jet along with proprietary inks that effectively will let manufacturers employ Gen 8.5 and larger substrates – which measure more than 6 feet a side – to produce OLEDs.
OLED TV panels are currently made on Gen 3.5 substrates, which measure 61 centimeters by 72 centimeters, hardly big enough for that 50-inch screen.
With the T Jet technology OLED TVs could cost about 70 percent of what it would cost to build a standard LCD TV and even less than an LCD-LED TV, asserted Conor Madigan, a co-founder and the CEO. Such TVs would use a fraction of the power and contain half of the components.
Source Greentech
About Kateeva:
Kateeva™ is the inspiration of five MIT researchers who came together
to turn a revolutionary invention into a revolutionary business. In early 2008, Dr. Conor Madigan and fellow co-founders Dr. Valerie Leblanc, Dr. Gerry Chen, Prof. Vladimir Bulovic, and Prof. Martin Schmidt decided to form a company to commercialize a new technology that could radically change the manufacturing of flat panel television. After making a strategic decision to base the company in California’s Silicon Valley, they joined forces with final co-founder, Dr. Sass Somekh, former President of Novellus Systems and legendary Silicon Valley semiconductor equipment executive, to get the idea off the ground. With his help, the Kateeva™ concept quickly captured the imagination of top tier venture capitalists, and by June, Kateeva™ had secured a first round of funding from two venture capital firms, Sigma Partners and Spark Capital, and a strategic investor, Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates.
Today, Kateeva™ is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA, and is actively developing ground-breaking manufacturing equipment for the flat panel display industry. By leveraging both their proprietary printing technology, exclusively licensed from MIT, and their world class team of display and semiconductor manufacturing experts, Kateeva™ is building equipment that will enable manufacturers to make displays that are thinner, brighter, lighter, more vivid, more power efficient, and most importantly, less expensive than what is possible today.
