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Center of Excellence for Battlefield Capability Enhancement

Director: Dr. Shanthi Iyer

The North Carolina A&T State University (NCA&T), in collaboration with the MCNC Research & Development Institute (MCNC), established a Center of Excellence for Battlefield Capability Enhancements (CENTER) which focuses on enabling technologies for environmentally stable flexible displays.  The technology focus of the Center will be to develop a unique, environmentally stable, hybrid wide-band-gap organic/inorganic semiconductor device and to demonstrate the use of the structure in high performance, robust luminescent devices for flat panel and flexible displays for the Objective Force. 

The information-intensive Objective Force requires mobile electronic devices for soldier and vehicle-based communications and weapons systems.  To date, all commercial display technologies are based on glass substrates and require significant ruggedization, adding weight and cost to electronic components.  The promise of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) based displays on flexible substrates is highly impaired by the environmental sensitivity of the organic materials and reactive organic/cathode interfaces.  Novel hybrid device structures that will effectively eliminate the shortcomings of OLEDs, provide good power efficiency in an emissive display, and be compatible with flexible substrates. 

Website: http://eceserver.elen.ncat.edu/research/mbe/center.html

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