Cynora Makes “Significant Progress” in Blue Material OLED Displays

For the past five years, Cynora has been developing organic thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials in order to enhance the performance levels of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panels.

Now the company is touting it has made significant progress in the development of so-called blue materials in the last six months, reaching performance levels that have been requested by the OLED industry for next-generation panels. Cynora’s TADF technology combines high efficiency with a long lifetime. Displays that incorporate the blue TADF materials will reduce power consumption in panels up to a factor of two.

The significant progress comes from Cynora developing deep blue material reaching an EQE of 16.3%, compared to just 3% reached in October 2015. Meanwhile the company says the lifetime of the blue material for OLEDs has been increased to 400 hours, a vast improvement from the level of just a few minutes last October.

“We have yet to reach the performances requested by the OLED display industry,” says Thomas Baumann, CYNORA’s CSO, “but our rapid progress during the last six months proves our capability to reach the performance levels we have defined together with our key customers to support their technical roadmap. We will use the coming months to combine both efficiency and lifetime in a single deep blue material.”

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