HYPOLED partners Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems, Dresden; Fraunhofer Institute for Applies Optics & Preciion Engineering, Jena; Germany,  Mobintech AS, Farum, Denmark; and the University of Cologne, Germany, with MED substitution by   Microoled SARL (Grenoble/France). 

Core of the FP7 project is focused on the development of a new, all-digital VGA OLED microdisplay, combined with optics for head-mounted displays and micro-projection as well as a MediaBox for providing connectivity to DVB-T, DVB-H and WiFi.

During the first year review in March 2009,  external reviewers already acknowledged good project progress, now after 18 months the following intermediate results are presented:

• A new all-digital VGA full-color OLED microdisplay backplane has been designed by Fraunhofer IPMS in a 0.18 μm commercial CMOS process and is currently under prototype manufacturing,

• Micro-projector optics (matching HYPOLED VGA microdisplay) has been developed by Fraunhofer IOF and publicly demonstrated

• The MediaBox connectivity to DVB-T, DVB-H (MPEG-2/4 streaming) and WiFi has been implemented by

• Fraunhofer IPMS on a low-power multimedia processor platform (Samsung S3C6400 ) and has been demonstrated.

A datasheet of the VGA full-color OLED microdisplay has been compiled: The public version can be requested by interested parties via the HYPOLED website, a more detailed version may be distributed individually under NDA

Ongoing work is related to the HMD design (Mobintech), the integration of a unique RGB sub-pixel patterning approach (full colour without filters, Universität zu Köln), OLED electrical modelling (University of Edinburgh) and custom design of the mobile, battery powered Mediabox (Fraunhofer IPMS).

The collaboration targets benchmarks of Microoled's existing WVGA and Fraunhofer IPMS' HYPOLED VGA backplane, each in combination with both Microoled's and Fraunhofer IPMS' pin OLED stacks. That move reflects the consortium's strict orientation to OLED microdisplay market needs and exploitation.

Several dissemination actions have been performed, addressing potential exploitation partners, the scientific community and general public.The micro-projection optics was exhibited at SID Display Week and Laser World of Photonics 2009, gaining exorbitant public interest.

Upcoming presentations are scheduled September at NEM Summit  St. Malo/France) and International Meeting on Information Display Seoul, Korea mid October

Further component/system outcomes are subject to presentation during SID-ME Chapter Spring Meeting 2010, organised by Fraunhofer IPMS and to be held in Dresden/Germany on 18-20 March 2010.

The project is managed by Dr. Uwe Vogel (upper left) and Dr. Michael Scholles (right) technical manager, both Fraunhofer IPMS)  and the project officer is Dr Henri Rajbenbach (left)