EWING, N.J. -- Universal Display Corporation (Nasdaq: OLED) (UDC), enabling energy-efficient displays and lighting with its UniversalPHOLED® technology and materials, today announced its sponsorship, invited presentation, and conferral of its annual innovation and technology awards at the 25th International Meeting on Information Display (IMID 2025) conference. Organized by the Korean Information Display Society (KIDS) and Society for Information Display (SID), IMID 2025 took place August 19-22 in Busan, South Korea.

As part of the conference program, Dr. Mike Weaver, UDC’s Vice President & Deputy Chief Technology Officer of PHOLED R&D, delivered an invited presentation on August 20 titled “OLED Displays 2.0.” His talk highlighted the efficiency and lifetime benefits of UDC’s novel Plasmonic PHOLED device architecture, and explored the development and deployment of phosphorescent OLEDs in extreme environments.

On August 21, Dr. Weaver also presented UDC’s prestigious awards:

UDC Innovative Research Award in Organic Electronics & Display: Tae Wook Yang, Seung Hyun Jo, and Min Chul Suh (Kyung Hee University, Korea) for their paper “Privileged Structure-Based Molecular Fingerprints for Organic Electronic Materials: Towards Intuitive Machine Learning Interpretation and Efficient Molecular Design.”

UDC Pioneering Technology Award in Organic Electronics & Display: Dong Jun Kim (Yonsei University & LG Display Co., Ltd., Korea), I. Sak Lee, Hyun Kyu Lee (LG Display Co., Ltd., Korea), Jae Seong Yun, Young Wook Kim (Yonsei University, Korea), Se Hwan Na, Young Ju Park, Hong Soo Kim, Sang Yoon Park (LG Display Co., Ltd., Korea), and Hyun Jae Kim (Yonsei University, Korea) for their paper “Improved Power Structure for Enhanced Image Quality of AMOLED Displays at Low Luminance Levels.”

“We are proud to honor these researchers whose work is advancing the science of organic electronics and displays,” said Steven V. Abramson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Universal Display Corporation. “Innovation is the cornerstone of our mission at UDC. We believe that fostering bold ideas and supporting pioneering research are essential to driving progress across the industry. These awards reflect our commitment to celebrating excellence and encouraging the breakthroughs that propel the display industry and organic electronics forward.”

The UDC awards recognize outstanding individuals or teams that have demonstrated innovative ideas or research initiatives impacting the organic electronic and display industries. The winners were selected by IMID and KIDS.