Success Stories...
Small screen success for MicroEmissive

MicroEmissive Displays was created as a joint spin-out from the University of Edinburgh and Napier University in 1999 to develop light-emitting polymer-based microdisplays for use in portable consumer products such as digital still and video cameras. This technology is an improvement over competing liquid crystal and liquid-crystal-on-silicon microdisplays because it consumes less power and uses standard electronic interfaces.

MicroEmissive Displays has quickly established itself as the world's leading developer of polymer organic light emitting diode (P-OLED) based microdisplays. In June 2004, the company was named "European Semiconductor Start-up of the Year 2004" by European Semiconductor Magazine. In the same year, Dr Ian Underwood, co-founder of MicroEmissive Displays, was named Scotland's Top Innovator 2004.

The company was admitted to the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange in November 2004, raising £15.7M to enable it to commence volume production of microdisplays. The company has retained close links to the University of Edinburgh with its headquarters based at the Scottish Microelectronics Centre on the King's Buildings campus.

MED are also in the Guinness Book of Records having fabricated the smallest television screen at the SMC.