Ten industry leaders in OLED technologies will work together to support the development and widespread adoption of OLED display and lighting products through a technology-based organization called the OLED Association. Barry Young, formerly senior vice president, DisplaySearch, will serve as Managing Director of the organization. Charter members of the new organization are Cambridge Display Technology, Corning, DuPont, Eastman Kodak Company, eMagin Corporation, Ignis Innovation, MicroEmissive Displays, Novaled AG, OLED-T, Samsung SDI, and Universal Display Corporation. Each will hold a chair on the Associations Board of Directors.
Under its charter, the new OLED Association will ” Provide a forum for the interchange of technical and market information to promote the more rapid development of OLED technology and products ” Serve as a resource on OLED technologies, markets, and products for media and investors ” Serve as a catalyst in the development of standards for OLEDs ” Provide a forum to promote and market OLED technology products into all relevant markets The OLED Associations Board of Directors will hold its first formal meeting at the Society for Information Display (SID) Conference, to identify specific areas of technology and set up the committees to address them. The Board will also set a date for the first OLED Marketing Conference. OLEDs represent the future of the display and lighting industries, noted Young.
We expect to see a new generation of thin, light, low-cost displays with the best front-of-screen image, the widest viewing angles, the fastest response times, and the highest contrast ratios available to compete in the TV, notebook and mobile device markets. Samsung SDI, Sony, RiTdisplay, Pioneer, eMagin, MED, Chi Mei EL, and LG Displays have already shipped commercial versions of these displays and they have received widespread admiration and acceptance from both media and device manufacturers. In the next few years OLED displays will be available to all consumers and high-performance, energy-efficient OLED lighting will enter the market, said Young According to Young, the OLED Association is open to any company involved in the development of OLED products or the materials and equipment to manufacture those products, potential users of OLEDs as well as educational and research institutions involved with the technology.
Senior Advisor and Consultant to DisplaySearch, Barry Young is founder and Managing Director of the OLED Association. As one of the industry’s leading authorities on OLEDs and flexible displays, he has authored all of DisplaySearch’s OLED and Flexible Display reports and has visited and consulted with most of the OLED manufacturers worldwide. Young has been published in multiple technical display journals and has spoken across the globe on the display industry.
Before joining DisplaySearch, Young was CEO and President of OWL Displays where he co-developed innovative driver technology for a-Si and p-Si TFT LCDs, and was awarded key patents architectures for driving low temperature polysilicon TFT LCDs. Before OWL, he was Vice President and General Manager for Tandem’s Integrity System’s Division. He has also served as Managing Partner at Booz Allen & Hamilton, Executive VicePresident with Wells Fargo Bank, Senior Vice President at Citibank and President and CEO of Lexar, an early developer of an all-digital PBX.
Joseph Runde
With almost 30 years of experience in communications on new technologies and new technology products, Joe Runde has been involved with OLED since 2000. His communications programs for Eastman Kodak Company resulted in three industry awards, and his marketing programs garnered two Addy awards. More recently, with eMagin Corporation, he led communications efforts for the Z800 3DVisor, OLED-XL technology, and the 3DS OLED microdisplay.
He led media relations efforts for Kodak’s consumer digital cameras, inkjet printers, and media from 1996 to 2000. Earlier, he was responsible for media and industry relations in Kodak’s Professional & Printing Imaging organization, introducing professional digital cameras, direct-to-plate technologies, and thermal printers.
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