MED Present Papers at SID ME Meeting

MED will be presenting two papers and exhibiting at this year’s Society for Information Display Mid-Europe Chapter Spring Meeting being held 13-14th March 2008 in Germany. Both presentations will take place the afternoon of Friday 14th March.

Professor Ian Underwood FRSE, chief scientific adviser and co-founder of MicroEmissive Displays will be presenting a paper titled, HYPOLED – High-Performance OLED Microdisplays for see-thorough mobile multimedia applications. The draft specifications for the device platform, the personal display system and the micro-projection unit will be described and the initial objectives and timescales discussed.

Chris Yates, Senior Research Scientist, MicroEmissive Displays will also be presenting a paper looking at the limitations of the conventional "lifetime" metric when applied to OLED displays and the development of a real-world equivalent metric. This paper will discuss the initial thoughts on bringing together device performance and application requirements in order to develop a "fit-for-purpose" evaluation for OLED displays in specific applications.

The Society for Information Display Mid-Europe Chapter Spring Meeting 2008 is being held at the Abbe Center, Beutenberg Campus, Jena, in Germany. Meetings are held twice-yearly in the Spring and Autumn attracting many European display professionals to the technical and scientific presentations. This meeting will focus on the different aspects of microdisplays and their applications, covering basic technology as well as optical components and systems for multimedia applications and niche markets. For more information and a copy of the conference programme, please visit: http://www.iof.fraunhofer.de/sid/.

About MicroEmissive Displays
MicroEmissive Displays (MED - AIM, London Stock Exchange) is a leader in polymer organic light emitting diode (P-OLED) microdisplay technology. The company was founded in 1999 and has developed a unique emissive microdisplay technology by using a P-OLED layer on a CMOS substrate. In late 2004, MicroEmissive Displays floated on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM) and the first product release and commercial shipments of MicroEmissive Displays’ eyescreen™ microdisplays were made in 2005. The company held the official opening of its volume manufacturing facility in Dresden, Germany in May 2007.

MicroEmissive Displays has been awarded ISO 9001:2000 registration for the research, design, development and marketing of digital microdisplay solutions and is working towards full accreditation in 2008. MicroEmissive Displays is headquartered at the Scottish Microelectronics Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland and its manufacturing site is in Dresden, Germany. The company employs more than 70 people and also has sales representatives and applications support located in Asia, the USA and Europe.

About eyescreen™
MicroEmissive Displays’ eyescreen™ products are the world’s only polymer organic light emitting diode (P-OLED) microdisplays. The full colour eyescreen™ combines superb TV quality moving video images that are free from flicker, with ultra-low power consumption, enabling greatly extended battery life for the consumer. This enhancement in battery usage time made possible by the eyescreen™ will play a vital role in the widespread adoption of portable head-sets for personal TV and video viewing in the consumer marketplace. The innovative design of the eyescreen™, with its integrated driver ICs and its digital interface, offers product design engineers a fast, robust design-in solution for smaller, lighter-weight, stylish products of the future, all for a size comparable with the pupil of the human eye.

Awards
Finalist at the Elektra Awards 2007 in the Research and Development category
Short-listed for the Best of British Industry Awards 2006, Next Generation Award
Winner of IEE Innovation in Engineering Award 2005, Emerging Technologies Award
Winner Gannochy Medal 2004, Professor Ian Underwood - Scotland’s Top Innovator
Winner European Semiconductor Start-Up of the Year 2004
Listed in Tornado Insider’s Top 100 in 2003
Listed in Tornado Insider’s Top 100 in 2002

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For further information please contact:
Dr Natalie Polack, Product Marketing Manager, MicroEmissive Displays
Scottish Microelectronics Centre, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JF
Tel: + 44 (0) 131 650 7764; Fax: + 44 (0) 131 650 7761
E-mail: info@microemissive.com; Web: www.microemissive.com

Contact:
Nicki Langley
Neesham Public Relations
Tel: +44 (0) 1506 670800
Email: nickil@neesham.co.uk

Photo caption: Professor Ian Underwood FRSE, chief scientific adviser and co-founder of MicroEmissive Displays.

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