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Publication
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Paper
Technology and design of an active matrix OLED on crystalline silicon direct view display for a wrist watch computer
Abstract
The IBM Research Division and eMagin Corporation jointly have developed a low-power VGA direct view active matrix OLED display, fabricated on a crystalline silicon CMOS chip. The display is incorporated in IBM prototype wristwatch computers running the Linux operating system. IBM designed the silicon chip and eMagin developed the organic stack and performed the back-end-of line processing and packaging. Each pixel is driven by a constant current source controlled by a CMOS RAM cell, and the display receives its data from the processor memory bus. This paper describes the OLED technology and packaging, and outlines the design of the pixel and display electronics and the processor interface. Experimental results are presented.