Kopin Corporation Ships 720p Color OLED Microdisplays

Andrew Neale

Kopin Corporation (NASDAQ: KOPN), a leading developer and provider of high-resolution microdisplays and display subassemblies for defense, enterprise, industrial, consumer and medical products, announced this week that it has shipped its 720p (1280 x 720 resolution) OLED microdisplays for a production order from US company for public safety applications.

Dr. John C.C. Fan, CEO of Kopin Corporation said “We are very pleased with our first production order of our color duo-stack 720 OLED microdisplays which will be used in a product made by a US company. This initial order, although quite modest but not insignificant, is an important milestone for our OLED microdisplay business, and is a true proof-point of our fabless OLED display business model in which our OLED partner, Lakeside, manufactures the displays on our ColorMax backplane wafers to meet our specifications. With the successful production of duo-stack color displays on our ColorMax wafers, we look forward to more orders to follow.”

The 0.49-inch-diagonal 720p display incorporates Kopin’s ColorMaxTM technology for superb color fidelity and a duo-stack OLED structure for high current efficiency. The average color fidelity of the 720p displays is more than 90% sRGB and the OLED current efficiency is over 10 candela per ampere (Cd/A).

A duo-stack OLED has two OLED structures on top of each other and connected in series. Because a duo stack structure provides far more flexibility in the OLED stack design than a single-stack structure, it offers the potential for much higher current efficiency, much higher brightness, lower power consumption and longer lifetime.

Kopin’s patent-pending ColorMax technology, which incorporates a specially configured anode structure in the Si backplane, suppresses color mixing among tiny sub-pixels (2.8 mm x 8.4 mm in the 720p display), which otherwise would be severe for duo-stack OLED structures. The duo-stack OLED structure has been developed by our OLED foundry partner, Lakeside Optoelectronic Technology Co., Ltd. (Lakeside), which has consistently produced 720p displays with high color fidelity and excellent OLED efficiency.

Kopin Corporation is a leading developer and provider of innovative display and optical technologies sold as critical components and subassemblies for military, industrial and consumer products. Kopin’s technology portfolio includes ultra-small Active Matrix Liquid Crystal displays (AMLCD), Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) displays and Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) displays, a variety of optics, and low-power ASICs.


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