The cyCESH Project supported by the BMBF (Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research) explores new functional materials for printed OLEDs for lighting applications. BMBF launched the project cyCESH involving cynora GmbH, Novaled AG and the University of Regensburg with the workgroup of Prof. Dr. Hartmut Yersin on June 1, 2013. The three-year project is funded with a total of 6.1 million Euros. The project's main goals are to develop new soluble materials for the inexpensive production of OLEDs and to produce high efficiency OLEDs. According to the project participants, new printable materials enable the manufacturing of OLEDs with simpler and cheaper printing processes. However, conventional OLEDs currently are still mainly being produced by expensive vacuum processes.
Each participant will focus on a piece of the value chain. Professor Yersin's team will focus on material development. Cynora GmbH will develop the processes and technology for the subsequent synthesis and optimization of materials. Novaled will concentrate on the application of solution-based-processes and doped transport layers. Novaled has nearly 500 patents related to OLED technology, structures, and materials and licenses and sells conductivity‐enhancing technology and organic materials for use in the mass production of OLED products. Professor Hartmut Yersin, at the University of Regensburg (Universität Regensburg) and his research team have reportedly been working for over three decades in the field of photophysical characterization and development of new emitter materials. For almost the last fifteen years, Yersin and his team have focused on the properties of OLEDs and their application.
"Through our collaboration with Novaled and Prof. Yersin of the University of Regensburg, we combine, within a team of experts, a comprehensive and specific know‐how and can take it to the next step in OLED development," said Dr. Thomas Baumann, Managing Director of cynora GmbH "our consortium strives for the overall goal of developing mass‐market materials and methods for production of OLEDs."
