Abstract:
OLED technology has crossed the threshold from promise to reality. And the breakthrough is revolutionizing consumer electronics. Because OLED technology liberates display manufacturers from the constraints of glass substrates, giving dramatic new flexibility to product design innovation. Display leaders are moving fast to harness the value of OLEDs, so that the promise of bendable, fold-able, and even roll-able products, can be fulfilled.
Kateeva was a leader in the movement to enable this watershed technology transition. The company’s pioneering inkjet printing manufacturing equipment solution was custom-engineered to enable cost-effective OLED mass-production. With extraordinary innovations -- some borrowed from the semiconductor equipment industry -- Kateeva’s YIELDjet™ products are today mass-producing flexible OLED panels in marquee Asian fabs. The same precision deposition printing equipment will soon produce OLED TVs.
In his keynote, Dr. Madigan will explain why Kateeva’s novel solution was adopted by industry leaders as mass-production tool of choice for Thin Film Encapsulation (TFE), an essential process step for flexible OLEDs. He’ll re-visit the 8-year journey of scaling a startup, from ambitious technology idea in a lab at MIT, to becoming a process tool of record at the heart of a display technology revolution. Finally, he’ll share key touch-points that at times challenged Kateeva but also powered successes since he co-founded the company in 2008.