Dr. Junji Kido 城户淳二博士
Distinguished Research Professor, Frontier Center for Organic Materials, Yamagata University
日本山形大学,WOLED的发明人

讲师简介 / Speaker Bio

Prof. Kido has received his B.S. degree in applied chemistry from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1984 and the M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in polymer chemistry from Polytechnic University (Today, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University), New York, in 1987 and 1989, respectively.
In 1989, he joined the department of polymer chemistry in Yamagata University in Japan as an assistant professor and promoted to an associate professor in 1995, to a full professor in 2002, and to a distinguished research professor in 2011. He was appointed as the General Director for “Research Institute for Organic Electronics” founded by the Yamagata prefectural government from 2003 to 2010. He also served as the project leader for the Japanese national projects on "Advanced Organic Semiconductor Devices" from 2002 to 2007 and "Organic Lighting" since 2004 both sponsored by METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry).
His current research activities are focused on organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs). He invented white-light-emitting OLEDs in 1993 for the first time and continuously working on developing high performance OLEDs. Wall Street Journal (May 10, 1995) cited his work entitled "Japanese Light Researcher May Turn LED into Gold". He is a co-founder of “Lumiotec Inc.” to manufacture white OLED panels for general lighting applications. He has also founded “Organic Lighting Corporation” to manufacture OLED lighting fixtures in 2009.
His work has been recognized by awards from the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (Society Award) and the Society for Information Display, U.S.A. (Special Recognition Award) in 2002. He also received the Herman F. Mark Technology Medal from Polytechnic University, USA, (2007) and he received the Medal with Purple Ribbon from Japanese Emperor (2013). In 2015, he received the Karl Ferdinand Braun Award from Society for Information Display, USA, and the Award from the Chemical Society of Japan in 2021.

摘要 / Abstract

Since the first report of a multilayer OLED by Tang and Van Slyke in 1987, the performance of OLEDs has been steadily improved. Starting from fluorescent materials, phosphorescent materials, TADF materials and now H-type fluorescence materials have been developed to improve efficiency. OLED device structures have also been newly developed to improve performance. After 36 years of intensive research and development in this field, today, a variety of OLED display products are on the market. Small-size OLEDs are used for smart phones and tablets, and large-size are used for televisions. The next step for OLED is to reduce the production cost. To this end, we have kept working on solution processable OLEDs in order to realize 120-inch flexible display. All printed TFT backplanes have also been developed. Recent progress and future prospects of OLED will be discussed.