Dynamic Organic Light is focused on developing and commercializing advanced materials and their incorporation into next-generation organic electronic devices, specifically, OLED-type flat panel displays, solid state lighting, and solar cells. The Company's technology provides for improved material lifetime, efficiency, color purity, and device manufacturing cost versus conventional OLED materials.
Dynamic Organic Light was founded in 2003 and is a privately held, venture capital backed company located in Longmont, CO.

Dynamic Organic Light web site

Eastman Kodak Company is engaged primarily in developing, manufacturing and marketing traditional and digital imaging products, services and solutions. OLEDs were originally found and patented by Kodak. Today Kodak is involved in licensing and producing OLED screens. Kodak released the world's first camera to use OLED screens, and have licensed its OLED technology to 20 companies, including the following companies - eMagin, Pioneer, Sanyo, TDK, Nippon Seiki, Ritek, Opsys, Rohm, Teco, Lite Array. Kodak trades in the NASDAQ (Ticker is EK).

Kodak web site

eMagin is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing and marketing of virtual imaging products that utilize OLEDs, OLED-on-silicon micro displays and information technology solutions. Focused on Micro displays, eMagin is selling its micro displays to companies that incorporate them into products such as cameras, army helmets or headsets, etc. eMagin trades in the AMEX Stock Exchange (Ticker is EMA).

In november 2006, we interviewed eMagin's chief marketing officer.

eMagin web site

General Electric Company (GE) is a diversified industrial corporation, and operations include engines, military, wind turbines, locomotives, lighting and financial services. 

GE is into OLED lighting, with partnerships with Tokki and Konica-Minolta announced.

GE's web page 

Goodfellow supplies pure metals, alloys, ceramics, polymers and composites as discs, sheets, foils, rods, wires and tubes, etc., to the research (R&D) and industrial markets. Goodfellow has a stock of over 45,000 catalogue items, and have sold several materials to OLED companies including ITO, cadmium, gold and polymers.

Goodfellow's web site

Hyundai LCD's specialty has been LCDs for mobile communications, PDAs and automotive applications. Today they also offer OLED screens, ranging from 1.15" monochrome for mobile phones to larger, colour displays for car-audio and phones. Their future development plans include PLEDs, Flexible OLEDs and AMOLED screens. Hyundai LCD has opened a JV of sorts with Luxell.

Hyundai LCD, originally a division of Hynix Semiconductor manufacturing, is now amongst the top 10 passive LCD manufacturers in the field of mobile communication, PDA, industry equipment and automotive displays, and is continuing robust growth in the flat panel display market. As of January 1, 2002, new investors from China and Korea acquired the business, and it is now independent.

Hyundai LCD web page

iSuppli have been publishing forecasts of the OLED market since 2000, providing industry reports, special studies (OLED IP, OLED manufacturing equipment), and custom consulting.
The display analysis portion of iSuppli was a consulting company called Stanford Resources, founded in 1977. iSuppli cover all aspects of the display industry - LCD, PDP, OLED, projection, TV, display materials, etc.
The other main branch of iSupply covers semiconductor market research. iSuppli also have a teardown service.

iSuppli web page

Konica Minolta is a japanese company, involved in copiers, printers, medical equipment, optical devices and a film used to enhance picture quality in liquid crystal displays.

KM is researching OLED for lighting, announced a partnership with GE and aims to have product on the market before 2010.

Konica Minolta's web site

Lucid Display Technology is a fabless company based in korea, focused on Displays ICs. LDT are offering a 64K color OLED IC (PMOLED)and has recently developed a driver IC that supports an OLED with a resolution of 128x160 and 260,000 colors, used for folder-type mobile phones.

LDT's web page

Leadis develops and markets mixed-signal semiconductors that enable and enhance the features and capabilities of small panel color displays used in mobile handset and consumer electronic devices.
As a leading supplier of color display driver ICs, Leadis continues to innovate and introduce new products for all handset display technologies such as OLED, CSTN and TFT. The OLED drivers are aimed for PM-OLED displays.

Leadis' web page

Lite Array (subsidiary of Global-Tech) is developing a range of display modules utilizing proprietary small molecule OLED technology. These modules are expected to be initially marketed to consumer electronics companies for use in cellular phones and MP3 players. Lite Array licenses its PMOLED technology from Kodak.

Global-Tech Appliances Inc. is an investment holding company that through its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures and sells small electrical household appliances to brand marketers in developed countries. GTA lists on the NYSE (Ticker is GAI).

Lite Array web site

Luxell has two divisions. Luxell Research has developed the 'Black Layer', in addition to other OLED IP. The Black Layer is a thin film structure that virtually eliminates ambient reflections, thereby enhancing display readability. Luxell has demonstrated the black layer with OLED the TFEL screens. The 2nd division is Actelux. Actelux has design and manufacturing capability to respond to client needs for custom display and intelligent Human-Machine Interface(HMI) systems. Actelux handles all display technologies, not just OLEDs.
Luxell also have a Joint Venture of sorts with Hyundai LCD.
Luxell is traded in the Toronto stock exchange (Ticker is LUX).

Luxell web site

MBraun offers optimally designed equipment for development and production in different application areas. MBraun sells equipment for OLED / PLED development and research, including a laboratory scale thin film deposition (TFD) inside a glove box.

MBraun web site

Merck is based in Frankfurt/Germany and produces organic semiconductor materials for displays and electronics. The company designs, develops and manufactures a wide range of specialised materials including high performance light emitting materials for oleds.
In February 2005, Covion was acquired by Merck KGaA.

Merck-OLED web page