3D Printing an OLED Display

3D Printing an OLED Display

In exciting new research, MSI PI Michael McAlpine (professor, Mechanical Engineering) led a team that used a 3D printer to create a flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. These displays are normally produced in expensive clean-room facilities, but the team was able to create a working device by combining two different modes of printing with their custom-built printer. The OLED display is flexible and can be packaged in an encapsulating material, which gives it a wide variety of possible uses.

A story about this research can be found on the College of Science and Engineering website: Researchers Develop First Fully 3D-printed, Flexible OLED Display. The study, which was published in Science Advances, can be found on the journal website: R Su, SH Park, X Ouyang, SI Ahn, MC McAlpine, “3D-Printed Flexible Organic Light-Emitting Diode Displays,” Science Advances 8 (7 Jan 2022), 10.1126/sciadv.abl8798.

Professor McAlpine uses MSI resources to support research into 3D printing of functional materials and devices.

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