Bi-directional OLED microdisplay from Fraunhofer

The Fraunhofer Institute used OLED on CMOS technology to create a bi-directional OLED microdisplay.

Photodiodes were placed between organic pixels to create the bi-directional effect. IOF and Fraunhofer IPMS have thanked BMBF, the Federal Ministry for Education and Research for funding this entire project. Fraunhofer is a German institute that has come up with this new version that can also work as a dimensional sensor.

Constanze Grossman from Fraunhofer-IOF has explained that by using the inverse confocal imaging approach on a point source sensor with purely electronic scanning has allowed them to create extremely compact sensor modules. This in turn opens up new opportunities in machine integration.

There will be a demonstrator at IMID 2011 who will show bi-directional OLED microdisplays. The demonstrator will also show an example device setup for dimensional sensorics.

Augmented reality through interactive data eye glasses and applications in optical inspection will now be possible with bi-directional OLED microdisplays.