MED.L Regulatory News (MED)

25 Sep 2007 12:00

Professor Ian Underwood, CTO, and co-founder of MicroEmissiveDisplays will be presenting papers at two key U.S. conferences in theFall. £ On Wednesday November 7th, at the OLED World Summit 2007,Professor Underwood will present a paper entitled "A Close Look atP-OLED Microdisplays". The OLED World Summit takes place at the HiltonTorrey Pines Hotel, La Jolla, California from 5th - 7th November andprovides a forum for display developers, material and equipmentmanufacturers, users and investors in organic light-emitting diodes(OLEDs) to discuss critical issues facing OLED technology today. £ At the Printed Electronics 2007 Conference and Exhibition,Professor Underwood has been invited to speak on the subject, "P-OLEDMicrodisplays." The conference, which takes place at the South SanFrancisco Conference Centre on the 12th - 15th November, is aninternational event aimed at product developers, end users,researchers and scientists. £ About MicroEmissive Displays £ MicroEmissive Displays (MED - AIM, London Stock Exchange) is aleader in polymer organic light emitting diode (P-OLED) microdisplaytechnology. The company was founded in 1999 and has developed a uniqueemissive microdisplay technology by using a P-OLED layer on a CMOSsubstrate. In late 2004, MicroEmissive Displays floated on theAlternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM)following a fourth successful funding round, which raised GBP 15.7 M.Funding has been used for proof of principle, technology developmentand establishing pre-production facilities in Edinburgh, culminatingin the first product release and commercial shipments of MicroEmissiveDisplays' eyescreen(TM) microdisplays in December 2005. £ MicroEmissive Displays has been awarded ISO 9001:2000 registrationfor the research, design, development and marketing of digitalmicrodisplay solutions and is working towards full accreditation in2007. MicroEmissive Displays is headquartered at the ScottishMicroelectronics Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland and its manufacturingsite is in Dresden, Germany. The company employs 62 people and alsohas sales representatives and applications support located in Asia,the USA and Europe. £ About eyescreen(TM) £ MicroEmissive Displays' eyescreen(TM) products are the world'sonly polymer organic light emitting diode (P-OLED) microdisplays. Thefull colour eyescreen(TM) combines superb TV quality moving videoimages that are free from flicker, with ultra-low power consumption,enabling greatly extended battery life for the consumer. Thisenhancement in battery usage time made possible by the eyescreen(TM)will play a vital role in the widespread adoption of portablehead-sets for personal TV and video viewing in the consumermarketplace. The innovative design of the eyescreen(TM), with itsintegrated driver ICs and its digital interface, offers product designengineers a fast, robust design-in solution for smaller,lighter-weight, stylish products of the future, all for a sizecomparable with the pupil of the human eye. £ Awards £ Short-listed for the Best of British Industry Awards 2006, NextGeneration Award £ Winner of IEE Innovation in Engineering Award 2005, EmergingTechnologies Award £ Winner Gannochy Medal 2004, Professor Ian Underwood - Scotland'sTop Innovator £ Winner European Semiconductor Start-Up of the Year 2004 £ Listed in Tornado Insider's Top 100 in 2003 £ Listed in Tornado Insider's Top 100 in 2002 Copyright Business Wire 2007