Dr. Indrajit Lahiri

MAX OLED Solution: Enabling the next generation of OLED manufacturing

The display industry is going through a major technology transformation. After more than two decades of LCD dominance, OLED adoption is growing. In smartphones, OLEDs have already exceeded 50% market penetration. Now panel and set makers are focused on increasing OLED adoption in larger screens such as tablets, notebook, monitors, and, eventually, TVs. So far adoption in these larger screens has been slow, because of challenges to scale up the fine metal mask (FMM) technology that is used in mobile phones to large glass substrates. At the same time, the blanket-layer OLED technologies have achieved very limited adoption in TVs because they are too expensive and do not perform as well as true RGB OLED.

To help solve these problems and to accelerate OLED adoption in all screen sizes, Applied Materials, has developed the MAX OLED™ Solution. The MAX OLED™ solution enables OLED display manufacturing on larger glass panels, bringing the superior display technology found in high-end smartphones to tablets, PCs and TVs. It provides patented OLED pixel architecture and a dramatically different manufacturing approach to improve all types of OLED displays, making them even brighter, clearer, more energy-efficient and longer-lasting. The integrated system combines the OLED deposition and encapsulation technologies needed to mass-produce superior OLED displays.

In this presentation, I will discuss the technology inflections in the industry and how Applied’s enabling technologies, including the MAX OLED Solution, will catalyze the large area OLED wave.

Dr. Indrajit Lahiri is Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the OLED Patterning business unit in the Display and Flexible Technology Group at Applied Materials. Prior to his role as OLED GM Dr. Lahiri was the Chief of Staff and Head of Business Management, Strategy & Field Operations for the Display and Flexible Technology group at Applied Materials, Inc. Since joining the Display business unit in January 2008, he has focused on developing new business opportunities, supporting new business growth, developing strategy, developing new business models, developing and implementing key field strategies and driving financial performance to improve profitability.

Dr. Lahiri first joined Applied Materials in 1998 as a New College Graduate, starting out as a reliability engineer in the Dielectric Chemical Vapor Deposition division. He has since held several management positions of increasing responsibility, including General Manager for BEOL Dielectric Etch.

Dr. Lahiri holds a master’s degree in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay) and both a Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Ph.D. in Semiconductor Physics from Purdue University. He has authored 10 patents and more than 25 publications and 60 conference papers.