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Small company, big plans

    Nature Photonics volume 3, pages 444–445 (2009)Cite this article

    German company Novaled has built a business around a doping technology that increases the efficiency of organic LEDs. Its materials have broken many efficiency records and are being used in a wide range of applications, reports Nadya Anscombe.

    When a group of researchers from the Technical University (TU) of Dresden, Germany, established Novaled in 2001, the market for organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) looked very different from today. There was a clear distinction between companies developing polymer OLEDs and those developing small-molecule OLEDs; both camps were competing to be the first to commercialize their technologies and it was unclear which technology was most likely to succeed.

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