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Yesterday, MicroEmissive Displays (MED) officially opened its plant for organic polymer displays (P-OLEDs) in Dresden. Some 13 million euros was invested in the plant, which is located near the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS). Among other things, the plant has a 396-square-meter clean room and a staff of 16 for starters. In the next two years, however, the staff is to double in size. Until now, the Scottish firm only has a pilot production plant for OLEDs in Edinburgh. The Dresden plant will be producing microdisplays made of illuminated polymers for video glasses. The firm expects to have serial production up and running by the summer.

The Eyescreen ME3204 that MED currently offers is a mini-OLED only six millimeters across (0.24 inches) with an impressive resolution of 320 × 240 pixels. MicroEmissive Displays is a licensee of polymer LED pioneer CDT and uses an OLED structure with "top emission," in which light is reflected off of the substrate, thereby increasing the utilization of the pixel area and enabling opaque substrates. MED's organic layer is directly applied to a small chip that not only integrates the display, but also the driver electronics. The image is then enlarged in the glasses so that the viewer can tell the extremely small pixels apart to begin with. The human eye then reconstructs a monitor-sized image a good ways beyond the glasses. These "head-up" displays can be used, for example, as a screen for portable DVD players or as TV screens for cell phones.
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