February 15, 2023 | Bay Area SID

Printed OLED Indicator Displays

Dr. Whitney Gaynor, CEO and co-founder of Sinovia Technologies

Presentation Abstract

OLED is widely known as the highest quality display on the market, used in flagship products such as high-end TVs and smartphones. Many of the early promises of OLEDs have been realized and commercialized, including their ultra-thinness and potential for flexibility. However, today’s flexible OLEDs are still fabricated in much the same way as rigid OLEDs on glass. And most of the innovation in the field is still aimed at high-end consumer products. At Sinovia, we are using roll-to-roll flexographic printing to fabricate bottom-emitting OLEDs suitable for use in segmented, indicator, and passive matrix displays at price points that can compete with incumbent LCDs and LED assemblies. This is enabled by our proprietary materials technology and our in-house process, along with some key supplier partnerships. In this talk, I will cover our core technology, our development status, applications of our displays, and our future plans as we move toward mass production.

Dr. Whitney Gaynor

Whitney is the CEO and co-founder of Sinovia Technologies, a Stanford University spinout working to realize roll-to-roll printed OLEDs based on flexographic printing. Over time, her role at the company has evolved from pure R&D in roll-to-roll processing and OLED stack development to include managing a small team, supply chain sourcing and partnerships, working with customers to define technology requirements, and more general business development. She has also served as PI for multiple U.S. government grant programs from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, and now occasionally serves as a reviewer for those programs. She took Sinovia through Y Combinator in 2017 and has raised three rounds of venture funding to date.

Whitney’s doctoral thesis work served as the basis for founding Sinovia and her first author peer-reviewed papers in the field of organic electronics have been cited over 1200 times. She holds an S.B. in materials science and engineering from MIT and a masters and PhD in materials science and engineering from Stanford University.