SBIR/STTR Phase I: Polymer Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells with Frozen p-i-n Junctions

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is structured around the design, synthesis of new organic electroluminescent (OEL) materials, and their innovative applications in fabricating frozen-junction polymer light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs) - an alternative to organic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) displays. Reveo has identified the OEL display as the most promising display technology of the future and the solution that best meets the new demands for bright, portable displays. These bright, thin displays will eventually replace expensive flat panel liquid crystal displays (LCDs), but they have not yet seen huge commercial success because of the poor OEL materials and non-optimized device fabrication techniques. The mission of this program is therefore to develop, optimize, and commercialize new OEL materials and devices that will make OEL displays the new market standard in the multi-billion dollar display market. LECs fabricated with these new materials are predicted to have high luminescence efficiency, high brightness, and longer lifetime compared with current OEL displays. The new materials thus have excellent commercial potential as the enabling technology behind the next generation of full-color, low-cost, flat panel OEL displays.