Fraunhofer facility for organics, materials and electronic components
| Fraunhofer facility for organics, materials and electronic components |
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|---|---|
| Category: | research Institute |
| Carrier: | Fraunhofer Society |
| Legal form of the carrier: | Registered association |
| Seat of the wearer: | Munich |
| Facility location: | Dresden |
| Type of research: | Applied research |
| Subjects: | Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | Photophysics, electrical engineering , chemistry |
| Basic funding: | Federal government (90%), states (10%) |
| Management: | Volker Kirchhoff |
| Employee: | 189 (2017) |
| Homepage: | http://www.comedd.fraunhofer.de |
The Fraunhofer Institution for Organics, Materials and Electronic Components COMEDD , or “Fraunhofer COMEDD” for short, was an institution of the Fraunhofer Society for the Promotion of Applied Research eV (FhG) and was based in Dresden . The nachgesetzte acronym COMEDD stood for English Center for Organic Materials and Electronic Devices Dresden (dt. Center for organic materials and electronic components Dresden ), the name of a former Institute part of the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (Fraunhofer IPMS) from the Fraunhofer COMEDD 2012 emerged. Fraunhofer COMEDD is active in applied research and development in the fields of photophysics, organic electronics and microelectronics and was founded in 2012 by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft to transfer the results of research on organic semiconductor materials and systems into production. Fraunhofer COMEDD is also involved in the networks Organic Electronics Saxony (OES), Silicon Saxony eV , CoolSilicon eV , the Organic Electronics Association (OE-A) and the Plastic Electronics Foundation .
On July 1, 2014, COMEDD was integrated into the Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP, which has since been operating under the new name Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP.
Research and Development
The facility combines research and development activities for the production, integration and technology development of electronic components based on organic semiconductors . The task of Fraunhofer COMEDD is the customer and application-specific research , development and pilot production of new module concepts and manufacturing methods for components of organic electronics , in particular for organic solar cells , OLED lamps, organic light-emitting diodes , OLED microdisplays and sensors .
The main research areas are:
- OLED sensors and micro displays
- organic photovoltaics
- OLED lighting and displays
OLED sensors and micro displays
OLED technology offers the possibility of highly efficient light sources in silicon - substrates to integrate. Examples of the use of OLED for sensory applications are light barriers , flow sensors or fingerprint sensors .
In addition, OLED-on-silicon technology is particularly interesting for use in microdisplays for applications in augmented reality (AR) as interactive data glasses , as optical viewfinders in digital cameras , as projectors, as a projection surface in portable screens. The integration of OLED in silicon chips makes it possible to arrange optical emitters and light-sensitive sensors simultaneously in one chip and in this way to generate a bidirectional microdisplay. The display provides information for the user and at the same time recognizes his actions. The user perceives the normal environment, but receives additional information via data glasses equipped with a bidirectional microdisplay. As a result of the interaction of the user, this image information can be entered by the operating system, either deliberately or unconsciously, so that the user can trigger commands without manual operation or the use of speech by simply moving his eyes. The familiar computer mouse or joystick are thus superfluous for certain applications. The world's first demonstrator of bidirectional data glasses with OLED microdisplays that can be controlled by eye movement was developed at Fraunhofer COMEDD. As a development kit, this demonstrator offers the opportunity to test the technology.
Organic photovoltaics
In the field of organic photovoltaics (OPV), Fraunhofer COMEDD is concerned with the development of innovative organic solar cells based on organic materials that can be evaporated in a vacuum (see thermal evaporation ) with the aim of developing efficient organic solar modules that have application-optimized properties. As in OLED technology , Fraunhofer COMEDD uses the PIN concept, in which the organic absorber layer is embedded between a light-conducting and an electron-conducting layer. Fraunhofer COMEDD uses its expertise in substrate production, thin film deposition in a high vacuum and the encapsulation of organic components to develop the technology of organic solar cells to market maturity and to enable customer-specific integration of organic solar cells. Fraunhofer COMEDD offers development services from the conception of systems based on highly efficient organic solar cells through prototype development to pilot production on rigid and flexible substrates. The services cover the entire supply chain from substrate provision to encapsulation and interconnection.
OLED lighting and displays
Lighting systems based on organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) enable surface light sources that can also be transparent and flexible. OLEDs have the advantage that all colors can be displayed and white light with a high color rendering index can be emitted. To evaluate these new technologies, the facility has developed the TABOLA OLED light panel series. Furthermore, the COMEDD department of the former Fraunhofer IPMS partner in the EU project “OLED 100” and thus involved in the development of the world's largest OLED panels with an edge length of 33 cm × 33 cm.
Infrastructure
About 75 employees work at Fraunhofer COMEDD. Karl Leo was the founding director of the Fraunhofer institution . From January 1, 2014, Volker Kirchhoff took over the management of the facility, which will merge with the Fraunhofer FEP from July 1, 2014.
The infrastructure consists of several clean rooms with pilot lines for the production of OLEDs, for wafers for OLED integration on silicon substrates and a research line for roll-to-roll production on flexible substrates. As usual for Fraunhofer institutes, COMEDD also provides technologies and production systems for customer development.
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ https://www.fep.fraunhofer.de/de/ueber-uns.html#tabpanel-2
- ↑ https://www.fep.fraunhofer.de/de/ueber-uns.html#tabpanel-3
- ↑ Fraunhofer COMEDD founded as a separate Fraunhofer institution. (Press release) Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, July 1, 2012, accessed on November 18, 2012 .
- ↑ Dresden Organic Electronics Center COMEDD becomes an independent Fraunhofer institution. (Blog post) Heiko Weckbrodt, July 2, 2012, accessed on November 30, 2012 .
- ^ Members. (Website) (No longer available online.) Organic Electronics Saxony, 2012, archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; Retrieved November 29, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Silicon Saxony - membership index. (Website) WfS GmbH, 2013, accessed on February 5, 2013 .
- ↑ Cool Silicon project partner. (Website) (No longer available online.) Cool Silicon eV c / o Silicon Saxony Management GmbH, 2010, archived from the original on February 16, 2013 ; Retrieved February 5, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ OE-A members. (Website) (No longer available online.) VDMA Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau eV, 2012, archived from the original on April 26, 2012 ; Retrieved November 29, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ COMEDD homepage , accessed on July 8, 2015
- ↑ Solveig Wehking: Seeing through data glasses. (Blog post) (No longer available online.) Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, October 29, 2012, archived from the original on July 30, 2013 ; Retrieved December 5, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Fraunhofer COMEDD: Evaluation kit of OLED based binocular interactive see-through HMD. (Data sheet; PDF; 367 kB) Retrieved January 14, 2013 .
- ↑ Organic LED lighting in European dimensions (OLED100.EU). (Website) (No longer available online.) OLED100.eu, 2011, archived from the original on July 24, 2012 ; Retrieved December 6, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Greetings from the institute management at the beginning of 2014. (Press release) (No longer available online.) Fraunhofer FEP, archived from the original on March 18, 2014 ; accessed on March 18, 2014 .
