Universal Display Corporation announced the recipients of the UDC Innovative Research Award in Organic Electronics& Display and the UDC Pioneering Technology Award in Organic Electronics & Display.

These awards were presented at the 21st International Meeting of Information Display (IMID) conference on Aug. 25, 2021 in Seoul, Korea by Seongwon (Steve) Kim, director of sales and business development of UDC Korea.

The 2021 UDC Award recipients are:
• UDC Innovative Research Award in Organic Electronics & Display: Min Seong Kim, Sujin Jung, Dong Hyun Choi, Hyung Tae Kim, Jusung Chung, and Hyun Jae Kim (Yonsei University, Korea) for their paper “Medifoam-Based Biocompatible Resistive Random-Access Memory for Skin-Wearable Healthcare Devices.”
• UDC Pioneering Technology Award in Organic Electronics & Display: Ha Lim Lee, Vilas Venunath Patil (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea), Inkoo Kim (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea), Kyung Hyung Lee, Won Jae Chung (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea), Joonghyuk Kim, Sangho Park, Hyeonho Cho, Won-Joon Son, Soon Ok Jeon (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea), and Jun Yeob Lee (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea) for their paper “High Efficiency (23%), Narrow-Emitting (21 nm) and Ultrapure Deep Blue (CIEy~0.05) Organic Light-Emitting Diodes based on a New Mechanism of Purely Spin-Vibronic Coupling Assisted Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence.”

“Since inception, Universal Display Corporation has stood for vision, innovation and reality. We are pleased to continue supporting creative and experimental research in the global organic electronics and display fields with these award grants,” said Steven V. Abramson, president and CEO. “As a pioneer in the OLED industry, we are committed to fostering the endless pursuit of knowledge and exploration. We congratulate the award recipients, and applaud all the researchers for their inspiring contributions in expanding the scientific boundaries of possibilities.”

The UDC awards recognize outstanding individuals or teams that have demonstrated innovative ideas or research initiatives impacting the organic electronic and display industries. The winners were selected by IMID and KIDS (Korean Information Display Society).

This year’s IMID Conference, which is being held in-person and virtually Aug. 25-27, 2021, will include a variety of technical presentations, including:
• Keynote Speaker: Dr. Julie Brown, EVP and CTO, “Next Frontiers in OLED Technology.”
•  Dr. Mike Hack, VP of business development, “High-Color-Gamut OLED Displays with Reduced Power Consumption for Laptop Applications (UDC/Intel joint paper).”
• Dr. Nicholas Thompson, senior R&D manager, “Increasing OLED Stability: Plasmonic PHOLED.”