Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEPThe Microdisplays and Sensors business unit is involved with R&D on comprehensive prototypes and systems of OLED-based microdisplay and sensor components. We offer you the entire spectrum of product development for OLED-on-silicon applications, ranging from CMOS design, to OLED stack alignment, optical design, system integration, and interface programming.
Microdisplays and Sensors
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Profile#
Our Services#
Our services encompass all of the necessary steps – from the concept phase of development projects to transfer of the technology:
- feasibility studies
- conception of R&D projects including work packages, milestones, and costing
- OLED fabrication technologies for organic semiconductors
- CMOS design for controlling the OLED image or sensor devices
- prototyping
- organizing fabrication through a network of external foundries
- creation of the system design based on novel integrated circuit packaging technologies
- development of processes and procedures for fabricating structured, application-specific OLEDs, such as OLED microstructures and OLEDs for medical applications as well as for organic photodiodes (OPDs)
- pilot fabrication
- Evaluation kits for individual tests, assessments etc.
- technology and design transfer as well as licensing for OLED microdisplays, OPDs, augmented-reality (AR) for wearables, optical sensors, fingerprint sensors, etc.
Rigid substrate like silicon wafers or glass as well as flexible substrates can always be employed.
Product Examples#
- bi-directional OLED microdisplays
- in data glasses for improved human-machine interaction
- as a display element in wearables
- as an aid for visually impaired people
- for work support in industrial fabrication, logistics, etc.
- as fingerprint sensors
- OLED microdisplays that emiting in the visible and NIR region
- customer-specific display resolutions SVGA, XGA, VGA, …
- ultralow-power microdisplays
- for fitness trackers
- for monitoring vital parameters in medical applications, etc.…
- OLED microdisplays for project applications
→ All microdisplays are available as evaluation kits in various versions.
- illuminated reticles and microstructures with OLED
- direct-write micropattering OLEDs using electron beam technology
- smart optoelectronic microsensors by OLED-on-silicon
- organic photodiodes in the visible and UV/NIR region
- backplanes for displays and sensors, evaluation kits
- biosensors
- position and inclination sensor
Equipment#
In our division Microdisplays and Sensors we offer our clients a broad range of processes in a clean room environment for conducting R&D as well as pilot-scale production of OLED microdisplays and sensors.
Our work focuses on the fabrication of micro- to nanoscale thin films and their structuring. Various facilities and processes are available for this purpose. There are also analytical methods available for characterizing layers.
- combinability of different processes
- thin-film encapsulation
- deposition of high-precision layers and layer systems on wafers with positioning accuracy of ±10 µm
- wafer encapsulation processes with positioning accuracy of ±1µm
- thin-film deposition, structuring, and analysis at wafer level (200 mm)
- 300 m² clean room (class 10)
- pilot line for OLED-on-CMOS
- pilot line for rigid substrates
- pilot line for rigid/flexible substrates
- facilities for etching, sputtering, and spin-coating
- deposition using thermal evaporation, electron beam, Vitex/Barix™, and thin-film encapsulation
- automated wafer-bonding system
- photolithography
- ellipsometer
- wafer prober
(i.a. one wafer prober provided by EVERBEING INT´L Corporation)
Wafer prober provided by EVERBEING INT´L Corporation
Wafer prober front view (as installed at Fraunhofer FEP)
Wafer prober side view (as installed at Fraunhofer FEP)
Virtual tour through the Fraunhofer FEP microdisplay cleanroom#
Virtual tour through the Fraunhofer FEP microdisplay cleanroom
Project Examples and information#
Projects#
| Project name | Discription |
|---|---|
| Admont | Advanced Distributed Pilot Line for More-than-Moore Technologies |
| Glass@Service | Smart Service World Joint Project "Glass@Service" |
| LOMID | Large cost-effective OLED microdisplays and their applications |
| FAIR | Free Applications in augmented Reality |
| CeTI | Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop 19 | 2018 – Scientists of the Fraunhofer FEP participate in the CeTI Cluster of Excellence |
Press#
- 16 | 2019 – Rapid test to ensure high milk quality
- 15 | 2019 – BiClean – Smart antibacterial surfaces using bidirectional display technology
- 08 | 2019 – High-performance OLED Microdisplay for Industrial AR Data Glasses
- 02 | 2019 – Truly-wearable Augmented-reality – closer to reality by combining highly efficient see-through optics and ultra-low power OLED microdisplay technologies
- 01 | 2019 – Blue OLED on Silicon Sensor detects Phosphorescence
- 23 | 2018 – Glass@Service – Keeping an eye on production
- 20 | 2018 – App-App-Hooray! - Innovative Kits for AR Applications
- 19 | 2018 – Scientists of the Fraunhofer FEP participate in the CeTI Cluster of Excellence
- 17 | 2018 – Enjoying virtual-reality-entertainment without headache or motion sickness
- 15 | 2018 – Industry 4.0: safety glasses off, data glasses on!
- 13 | 2018 – Electron Beam Patterning for high-resolution full-color OLED displays
- 02 | 2018 – Develop data glasses faster
- 20 | 2017 – Multifunction data glasses with OLED microdisplays
- 16 | 2017 – Organic photodiodes – more economical detectors for the NIR region
- 09 | 2017 – OLED microdisplays as high-precision optical fingerprint sensors
- 01 | 2017 – Large, but nevertheless micro – high resolution OLED microdisplay for virtual reality applications
- 08 | 2016 – The energy-saving data glasses
- 15 | 2016 – OLED microdisplays in data glasses for improved human-machine interaction
- 05 | 2016 – Micropatterning OLEDs using electron beam technology
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Evaluation Kits#
Fraunhofer FEP is specialized in the development of OLED microdisplays for AR and VR glasses as well as for the use in sensor applications. The concept and the parameters of the display like resolution, pixel size and embedded functions can be varied in a wide range appropriate to the project specifications or customers needs. The spectrum ranges from ultra-low-power displays for small and lightweight data glasses over high resolution HD displays for VR headsets and viewfinders up to bidirectional displays with embedded image sensor functionality.
Fraunhofer FEP offers a selection of evaluation kits for a straightforward transfer of the microdisplays into customer-specific applications. Please get into contact with us for a detailed offer.
Fraunhofer FEP is pleased to support you with these evaluation kits according to your specific requirements for the development of your products. Please do not hesitate to contact us for more detailed information and discussion of your project ideas!
