Spotlight on Technology Archives - Kateeva

• August 23, 2022

  G8.5 Display Production? Inkjet’s Got It!

  Massive G8.5 display lines are being planned across Asia, with manufacturing leaders setting aggressive production targets and timelines to meet market windows. It is not a simple transition. There will be technical challenges to resolve as G8.5 mass-production equipment goes online. And with fab costs growing ever higher, there is no margin for error. Kateeva […]

• May 12, 2022

  Display Imagination!

  This week, the center of gravity for Display Imagination is in our neighborhood, San Jose, Calif. It’s Display Week 2022 – where the experts are gathering to reveal new innovations that will thrill consumers. Kateeva was there with exciting updates to share. Co-Founder Valerie Gassend took the podium yesterday to detail how we are equipping […]

• February 24, 2022

  Software as Super-Enabler of Inkjet for Advanced Pixel Printing Applications

  Inkjet printing has become a mature manufacturing equipment option for advanced display technologies. Valued for reliability in mass production, it became an enabling solution for mobile OLED TFE – a breakthrough that launched a new class of foldable displays. With this early success, display leaders are now exploring inkjet to enable advanced pixel printing applications […]

• April 19, 2021

  Large-Scale Manufacturing of Polymer Planarization Layers? Inkjet’s Got It!

  Display innovation hardly missed a beat last year — even in the shadow of a global pandemic. This is particularly true for foldable, rollable, and even stretchable displays enabled by OLED technology. Since last Fall, leading brands including Samsung and Huawei released their newest foldable smartphones, and one manufacturer is even experimenting with foldable/rollable displays – […]

• October 26, 2020

  Inkjet Printing: Built to Scale

  Consumer demand for large-size TVs with superior picture quality sparked development of next-generation display technologies. Recent examples include 65” and 77” OLED TVs, as well as Blue OLED TVs fabricated using quantum dot color conversion (QDCC) technology. Not surprisingly, manufacturing the new displays involves a complex production process. Inkjet is already a proven production solution […]

• November 20, 2019

  The Future of Foldable is the Present

  In the decades since Steve Van Slyke* and Ching W. Tang co-invented the OLED device, OLED technology has steadily transformed the display industry. Today, the technology is enabling foldable displays. The journey to foldable displays involved relentless materials, process and equipment innovations. First came the rigid OLED smartphone that dazzled consumers with unprecedented contrast and […]

• August 27, 2019

  Catch Kateeva at Upcoming Conferences

  With the last days of summer coming to a close, our global conference schedule is getting busy. We begin this week with IMID in Korea, then move closer to home with OLEDs World Summit in late September, followed by Printed Electronics USA in November. Kateeva will present on our newest inkjet innovations at each venue. […]

• May 9, 2019

  Innovation on Display

  Just days to go before the biggest gathering of display experts converges in San Jose to talk information displays. It’s the place where the “future of displays” takes shape. As a key enabler of next-generation displays, we’ll be there. In fact, at Monday’s Business Conference, our CMO May Su will share highlights on the newest […]

• April 9, 2019

  Ink. It’s Got Character

  When an inkjet printer is engineered from the ground up to mass produce next generation displays, ink is integral to the product development strategy. And although inkjet is now a mainstream manufacturing technology for OLED thin film encapsulation (TFE), newer applications like OLED RGB and Quantum Dot Color Filter (QDCF) are creating new performance imperatives […]

• February 19, 2019

  Thinner in Print

  Relentless innovation at every touch point in the OLED supply chain is driving new advancements that are helping display manufacturers stretch the potential of OLED technology. Overcoming technical obstacles helped propel OLED-enabled smartphones into the hands of consumers, with companies like Kateeva pioneering unique manufacturing solutions to enable cost-effective mass production of the revolutionary displays. […]