Kateeva (Menlo Park, CA) and Sumitomo Chemical announced a partnership to match Sumitomo's inks with Kateeva's inkjet printing equipment platform to make it easier for display manufacturers to deploy inkjet-printed RGB OLEDs for large-size TVs. The companies will co-develop reference data for customers, who will benefit from a tested and optimized solution.
Kateeva says its new YIELDjet FLEX product enables low-cost, high-yield thin film encapsulation (TFE) for flexible OLED displays. It is the first product to emerge from the YIELDjet platform and offers an alternative to vacuum evaporation technologies. The same platform can be applied to print RGB OLED TVs. Sumitomo Chemical's OLED material, which is the polymer OLED (PLED) type, is suitable for printing, and enables effective mass production of large-size OLED displays.
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The partnership is non-exclusive and aims to equip the global display industry with novel tools and technologies to help mainstream OLED TVs. Kateeva is headquartered in Silicon Valley, maintains operations in Korea
Source: Kateeva