OLED 4 Lighting

Materials for bright white

OLED Light Sources
eXPerTise & ParTNersHiP
Merck is a strong partner to the OLED (Organic Light
Emitting Diode) industry with expertise derived from a
background of more than 100 years of experience in
high-technology products, e.g. liquid crystals. Merck
designs, manufactures and markets high-performance
materials for display and lighting applications. The busi-
ness unit is one of the leading manufacturers of
materials for OLEDs and has more than 15 years of
experience as well as a strong worldwide intellectual
property position.

Synthesis of Small Molecules in the OLED Development Laboratory.

iNNOVaTiON & FOcUs

Our prime focus is to develop the best OLED materials We are specialists in technology leading small molecule
for your application, translating our innovations into OLED materials for evaporation processing, with a long
high-quality commercial products for industry-leading term commitment to use our technical strengths and
manufacturers. intellectual property in soluble solutions.
Merck is unique in its range and depth of
capabilities across the whole range of
established and developing OLED material
technologies. We have one of the largest
research and development teams. As
innovative and reliable partner we develop
customer specific solutions together with
the worlds leading display and lighting
companies.

I-River Spinn
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OLED lighting devices are a new
development for unique light sources with

• high luminance
• high efficiency
• total flat form factor
• low voltage and
• 180°- uniform light distribution.

PrOcess
Merck is continuously investing in state-of-the-art
equipment and capabilities to ensure that our materials
are characterized similar to the way customers use our
materials in their devices and processes. Therefore
Merck can provide application support to optimize the
material stack in close cooperation with the customer.
Early Future – a work of art by Ingo Maurer with OLEDs from Osram, also
using livilux® materials from Merck.

PrODUcT POrTFOliO
livilux®: Evaporation Systems
• Singlet Emitter Materials (SE-Series)
• Singlet Matrix Materials (SM-Series)
• Triplet Emitter Materials (TE-series)
• Triplet Matrix Materials (TMM-series)
• Hole Blocking Materials (HBM-series)
• Hole Transport Materials (HTM-series)
• Electron Transport Materials (ETM-series)

livilux®: Solution based Systems

• White polymers for lighting (SPW-series)
Merck Small Molecules Powders and OLED test cells.
• Interlayer materials (HIL-series)
• Buffer Materials (PBM-Series)
• Soluble Small Molecules
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obligation or liability. Therefore, it should not be construed as guaranteeing specific properties of the products described
or for their suitability for particular applications.
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Germany Merck KGaA Taiwan Merck Display Technologies Ltd.

LC OLED Marketing & Sales Ms. Cathy Chang
Ms. Christiane John No. 39, Ching Chien 1st. Road
Industrial Park Höchst, F 821 Kuan Yin Industrial Park
D-65926 Frankfurt Taoyuan, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Phone: +49 (0)69-305-34596 Phone: +886-3-4836521 ext. 2311
Fax: +49 (0)69-305-21592 Fax: +886-3-4160440
christiane.john@merck.de cathy.chang@merck.com.tw

Japan Merck Ltd. Hong Kong Merck Ltd.

Ms. Kaori Inoue Mr. Henry Tse
ARCO Tower, 5F. 29th Floor,
8-1, Shimomeguro 1-chome No. 3 Lockhart Road
Meguro ku Wanchai
Tokyo 153-8927 Hong Kong, P. R. China
Phone: +81-3-5434-5069 Phone: +852-2376-6341
Fax: +81-3-5434-4981 Fax: +852-2576-1912
kaori.inoue@merck.co.jp henry.tse@merck.com.hk

Korea Merck Advanced Technologies Ltd. USA EMD Chemicals

Dr. Jun-Ho Kim
4th Floor, Haesung-2-Bldg.
942-10, Daechi-3-dong, Kangnam-ku
Seoul, 135-725, Korea
Phone: +82-2-2185-3898
Mobile: +82-10-4725-3898
jun-ho.kim@merck.co.kr
an affiliate of Merck KGaA,
Darmstadt, Germany
Mr. Barry Seff
480 South Democrat Road
Gibbstown, NJ 08027
Phone: +1-856-599-6613
Fax: +1-856-423-0671
barry.seff@emdchemicals.com

Please also contact us at www.livilux.com