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Universal Display Names Award Recipients at IMID 2025

Selects winners of the 2025 UDC Innovative Research and Pioneering Technology Awards at IMID Korea 2025.

UDC's Dr. Mike Weaver, center, presents UDC's annual Innovative Research and Pioneering Technology Awards to Tae Wook Yang, left and Dong Jun Kim, right. (Source: Universal Display)

Universal Display (UDC) 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 Aug. 19-22 in Busan, South Korea.

As part of the conference program, Dr. Mike Weaver, Universal Display’s VP and deputy CTO 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. He explored the development and deployment of phosphorescent OLEDs in extreme environments.

On August 21, Dr. Weaver also presented Universal Display’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 CEO of Universal Display. “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.

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