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The Fraunhofer institute showcase a bi-directional OLED microdisplays based on OLED-on-CMOS technology. The german institute are showing now a version that doubles as a dimensional sensor. Fraunhofer placed photodiodes between the organic pixels to create a bi-directional display. Fraunhofer IPMS and IOF thank the Federal Ministry for Education and Research BMBF for funding the project [...]

A very good video from the Deutsche Welle about the work of Fraunhofer-IPMS. In this video you see the work of Prof. Karl Leo and his OLED lighting program. Prof. Karl Leo explain the OLED production and testing equipment.

During this years Euroluce 2011 and Salone Ufficio show in Milan the Salone Satellite Award with the topic “Designing the future” took place. Therefore a jury composed of internationally important figures in the rld
of design, architecture and manufacturing selected the three best designs among the projects of 110 young designers in the categories “Lighting and Office”.

The Fraunhofer IPMS works on the integration of sensors and microdisplays on CMOS backplane for several years now.

Now the Fraunhofer-IPMS and Comedd show a bidirectional microdisplay for Head Mounted Displays at the SID-2011 in Los Angeles. The SID-2011 will be held May 17 – 19, 2011 in Los Angeles/USA

The Fraunhofer IPMS works on the integration of sensors and microdisplays on CMOS backplane for several years now. For example the researchers developed bidirectional microdisplays that could be used in systems for optical acquisition and display of information.

The chips contain both an active OLED matrix with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels and a therein integrated photodetector (160 x 120 pixels). The combination of both matrices in one chip is an essential possibility for system integrators to design smaller devices that make use of both functionalities.

For a few days, the Fraunhofer IPMS introduced the new OLED lighting panels called Tabola. These panels are made by COMEDD,

Subsequent to this, COMEDD offers the development of OLED demonstrators and even the production of small and medium sized series of customer-specific OLED elements.

he Tabola Series is available in Q1 2011:

TABOLA 37(G):
TABOLA 77(G):
TABOLA 157(G):

35 x 75 mm²
75 x 75 mm²
150 x 75 mm²

The Fraunhofer-IPMS and Comedd (Center for Organic Materials and Electronic Devices Dresden) introduce the OLED lighting panel TABOLA. The Tabola panels are available in 3 sizes and in transparent, with grid or without. The head of the business unit for Lighting and Photovoltaics, Dr. Christian May, comments: “The OLED Light Tablets of different sizes allows customers to manage first own tests with this fascinating technology. Furthermore, they can build up OLED lighting solutions on their own.”

The dream of low-cost, energy-efficient lighting on a big scale becomes tangible thanks to barrier coating systems for flexible OLEDs developed by Fraunhofer researchers.

Fraunhofer-funded project iSTAR Interactive See-Through Augmented- Reality Displays.

Major specification
OLED microdisplay, VGA, RGB, 0.5″, >1000cd/m², see-through HMD, eye-tracking +gaze-control, mobile platform (iPhone, UMPC), sensor integration (GPS, orientation)

Target markets and demonstrators
industry (design (automobile), manufacturing (aircraft), maintenance)
consumer (context-sensitive geo-information and AR in tourism and navigation)

In the recently started ‘So-Light’ project eleven German companies and research institutes work closely together on OLEDs. The goal is to reach a leading position in the fast growing worldwide OLED market. The 14.7 Million Euro project is also financially supported by the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research).