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To: nigel bates who wrote (412)	4/24/2001 8:43:16 PM
From: kinkblot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 565

Hi Nigel, Check this out: universaldisplay.com PPG and UDC will also work together to enhance the commercial success of UDC's OLED business and explore opportunities to utilize UDC's OLED technology in PPG's businesses, including automotive products, architectural glass and eyewear lenses. Architectural glass requires huge coating machines. Window-sized lighting panels would require the same, so perhaps that's one of the possibilities they had in mind in forming the partnership. If so, PPG Industries is an excellent partner. They've got a lot of experience applying various types of coatings to large-area substrates. Some of them are fairly high-tech, for instance photochromic and electrochromic coatings. I saw the recent press release about Universal Display's development agreement with Sony. Sony has their finger in everything to do with displays, but nevertheless that's a big vote of confidence in Universal Display. However, for the lighting panel application, PPG is probably better suited than Sony. If it happens, it will be further out, since it will have to be manufactured at much lower cost per unit area than displays. No doubt we're just starting to scratch the surface wrt discovery of new phosphors and other complex materials. So, it's impressive that the properties of the "fluorinated iridium organometallic complex" or "Firpic" are already on a par with flourescent materials by some measures of significance for lighting purposes. And I'm sure they'll make great strides from here, as they have with their phosphorescent green over the last year. Will