Participating Companies / Members

Participating Companies / Members

Yamagata University members

For details on the members of the Research Group for Flexible Technologies (Nakada/Furukawa/Yuki/Koden) running the YU-FLEC, please click here.

YU-FLEC Project Leader

Fields of expertise

OLEDs (display, lighting, and devices), polymer material engineering

Career

OLEDs (display, lighting, and devices), polymer material engineering

1993 to 1996 TEIJIN LIMITED
1996 to 1999 Doctoral Program, Graduate School of Engineering, Yamagata University (PhD in Engineering)
1999 to 2015 Technology Development Center, OLED Division, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION (development of PMOLEDs, AMOLEDs, tiling devices, OLED lighting, etc.)
April 2015 Innovation Center for Organic Electronics at Yamagata University (current position)
Awards

  • Outstanding Achievement Award at the 4th Japan OLED Forum for the “Development and commercialization of large OLED display systems” (2011: Group award)

Major achievements

  • World’s first commercialization of phosphorescent OLED devices (2003)
  • World’s first commercialization of largest-size tiling displays with OLEDs (2010)
  • World’s first commercialization of color-tunable organic lighting panels (2013)

YU-FLEC Fellow

Academic-Industrial Collaboration Professor
Hitoshi Nakada

nakada@yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp

Fields of expertise

Organic electronics devices

Career

OLEDs (display, lighting, and devices), polymer material engineering

1981 Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, Tohoku University
1981 to 2013 PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
1988 R&D of OLED displays and OLED lighting
2013 Innovation Center for Organic Electronics at Yamagata University (current position)
Major achievements

  • World’s first OLED product (passive-matrix OLED display) (1997)
  • World’s first phosphorescent OLED product (2003)
  • Passive-matrix, full-color flexible OLED display prototype (2003)

Major written works

  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 142nd Commitiee on Organic Materials Used in Information Science and Industry Subcommittee C (Ed.), “Advanced Organic Semiconductor Device: From Basics to Device Properties,” Ohmsha (co-authored) (2015)
  • K. Junji, (Ed.), “OELD Lighting,” Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun (co-authored) (2015)

YU-FLEC Secretary

Academic-Industrial Collaboration Professor
Dr. Mitsuhiro Koden

koden@yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp

Fields of expertise

LCDs, displays, OLEDs, chemistry

Career

1983 Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University (PhD)
1983 to 2012 Sharp Corporation (liquid-crystal materials, LCDs, OLED displays, etc.)
1998 to 2011 Guest prof. at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology
2012 Innovation Center for Organic Electronics at Yamagata University (current position)
2017 teamS, founder and technical advisor (concurrent position) (teamS website: http://teams.tokyo/)
Major achievements

  • 17” ferroelectric liquid-crystal display (FLCD) prototype (1999)
  • 3.6” polymer OLED display with world’s highest resolution (2006)

Books

  • M. Koden, “OLED Displays and Lighting” (Wiley; IEEE Press) (2017).
  • K. Takatoh, M. Hasegawa, M. Koden, N. Itoh, R. Hasegawa, M. Sakamoto, “Alignment Technologies and Applications of Liquid Crystal Devices” Taylor & Francis (2005).
  • T. Nakamori, S. Sano, M. Koden, T. Shinoda, T. Tsutsui, “TV Changes: Roll of Chemistry (Dream Chemistry 21),” (Supervised by the Chemical Society of Japan) Maruzen (1999)