Emitters
Noctiluca is a designer and producer of OLED emitters – chemical compounds that emit light upon the application of the electric charge.
This component is a fundamental basis of any OLED display and determines its performance, such as color, contrast and durability. Currently, top-tier televisions feature OLED displays, and the latest smartphones such as iPhone®, Samsung®, and Xiaomi® are equipped with OLED screens. Moreover, the vast majority of innovative display technology products are moving towards OLED technology. The OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) display stack is made up of thin layers of organic materials. One of these layers, and perhaps the most important one, is the emitter – which actually converts electricity into visible light. This emitter and the rest of the organic materials together form a sub-pixel, the basic building block of an OLED display.
There are two ways to manufacture these layers – PVD (Physical Vapour Deposition) and IJP (ink-jet printing). While PVD is a mass-scale method and a majority of OLED displays nowadays are produced in this method, it requires heavy investment into machinery and therefore is a natural barrier to entry. Ink Jet Printing is the next-generation OLED production process technology as it allows much more efficient and cost-effective material deposition and can help reduce OLED production costs dramatically.
Noctiluca is an OLED emitter designer and producer. We are working on the commercial deployment of the new (3rd, 4th and 5th) generation of OLED emitters dedicated to both PVD and IJP applications. In addition to emissive compounds, which make up a few to several percent of the layer, Noctiluca develops specialized high-performance materials, which constitute the majority of the emissive layer in OLED displays. It means that we offer our customers a complete solution consisting of emitters, sensitizers, and hosts.
Unlike many of the OLED material designers, Noctiluca does not plan to grow in the fabless model.
Fabless model limits the ability to service the middle market and small players and does not allow to bring the Noctiluca’s emitter platform closer to the market. Instead, Noctiluca plans to have significant production capabilities, both to speed up the emitter and customer development processes, thus leading to faster commercialization.
WHY WE’LL BE THE BEST
We are pioneers in OLED emissive materials.
No.1 IJP pioneer
While TADF materials for PVD are reaching the specifications required by the industry that plans to replace phosphorescence (2nd generation OLED materials), the TADF for ink-jet printing (IJP) was lacking in quality. Noctiluca’s materials are able to bridge this gap and our materials for IJP show the same level of maturity as its commercially available TADF materials for Thermal evaporation (PVD).
No.2 Deep understanding of industrial procesess
Our materials are delivered in top quality and as a result of industry-grade scalable processes, that are a match for Tier1 companies.
No.3 PVD leader
Noctiluca is one of three leading players globally pursuing deep blue emitters, making major steps to deliver the innovation for the benefit of the whole OLED industry.
No.4 one-stop shop
On top of that, Noctiluca offers emitters in the whole colour palette, ranging from yellow, through green to blue, with red in heavy R&D process – we are a one-stop-shop for IJP OLEDs.
