Opsys Ltd: Electroluminescent Compounds
1st December 2009
We are pleased to announce that Opsys Limited, the Oxford based displays technology company, has taken out a further three Licences from Oxford University Innovation since July 2000.
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These Licences cover recent developments made in two different areas of organic electroluminescent materials research: light emitting dendrimers and complexes of lanthanide metal ions. Following the completion of these Licences, Opsys has sublicensed selected materials to H. W. Sands Corporation, a US speciality chemicals supplier to the displays industry.
This brings number of patents now licensed to Opsys to five. The rate at which Licences are being concluded results from the significant level of research being funded directly by Opsys into organic electroluminescent compounds in several research groups, both in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford and also at the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St Andrews.
History of Opsys Ltd
Opsys Ltd is a University of Oxford spin-out company, founded in October 1997 to develop and commercialise novel display technology based on new classes of light emitting materials and designs. Organic electroluminescent technology, also known as OLEDs (Organic Light Emitting Diodes), offers significant advantages over the LCDs commonly found in portable products such as mobile phones, personal organisers and laptop computers. OLEDs comprise a single light emitting layer, which combines uniform brightness and colour purity with a low operating voltage and high efficiency. Opsys’ goal is to develop colour OLED displays which will be significantly lighter, thinner, and cheaper to produce than existing technologies, and which will be ideal not only for portable products such as laptop computers but, in the longer term, for larger screens such as televisions and desktop monitors.
The market for flat screen display technologies is expected to grow rapidly from its current estimated level of $13 billion to $70 billion by 2005.
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