Preface
Over the last several decade years, great successes have been achieved in the industrialization
of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technologies. Active-matrix OLED (AMOLED)
emerged as an important and low-cost candidate to replace liquid crystal displays due to its
attractive advantages like self-emitting, high efficiency, high contrast, vivid color, fast
response, and flexible form factor. The purpose of this eBook is to present an introduction to
the subject of AMOLED and their related technologies which are generally integrated to the
production application, including OLED basic working principles, fabrication and
characterization, white OLED technologies, light outcoupling technologies, encapsulation
technologies, thin film transistor backplane technologies, driving scheme, circuit and layout
design technologies. Although it is impossible to cover completely the vast amount of
publications concerning these topics, we will select those key areas in device structures,
fabrication techniques and application that we feel are most pertinent to the practical
production.
This book will be helpful for young scientists and engineers who work at the development of
practical OLED display and OLED lighting. Target readers include researchers in organic
electronics field, undergraduate and graduate students who study in OLED display and OLED
lighting, and also for the engineers who work in OLED industry. Through reading the eBook,
readers can get a comprehensive and insight view of the AMOLED display, including the
principles of OLED, the fabrication and characterization techniques of OLED and various
related technologies for display system integration, which is benefit for their future academic
or industrial career.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The author(s) confirm that this chapter contents have no conflict of interest.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Declared none.
Dr. Shuming Chen
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
South University of Science and Technology of China
Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, P. R. China
chensm@sustc.edu.cn
List of Contributors
Author(s):
Shuming Chen
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
South University of Science and Technology of China
Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055
P. R. China
Jianning Yu
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
South University of Science and Technology of China
Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055
P. R. China
Yibin Jiang
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong
P. R. China
Rongsheng Chen
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong
P. R. China
Tsz Kin Ho
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong
P. R. China