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Bodle Technologies has developed a novel, smart material for use in low-energy high-resolution displays and glazing. Bodle’s display device offerings offer high flexibility, ultra-high resolution, and very low energy consumption, making a highly attractive proposition for the global display market. The first commercial applications are expected to be projection-based micro-displays.
The invention, by a team led by Professor Harish Bhaskaran and his postdoctoral researcher Peiman Hosseini at the University’s Department of Materials, attracted attention from industry following the publication of a paper in Nature in 2014. The BBC recently highlighted the technology here.
Professor Bhaskaran said: “This new approach allows us to create materials which can not only manipulate light very cleverly, but are also very cost-effective. We will be creating smart glazing which allows only certain wavelengths of light into a building, giving instant control over both the heat and light being transmitted, and over the appearance of the glass. We will also be working on other applications for these thin film materials including novel reflective displays and security markings.”
The global display market alone is estimated to be worth $165 billion in 2017.
The funding round was led by Oxford Sciences Innovation, the £320m investment company established to provide capital and scaling expertise to Oxford spin-outs.
There is more detail on the University's home-page here.
The Team
David Fyfe, Chairman, is the former CEO of Cambridge Display Technologies and currently Executive Chairman of Oxford PV.
Harish Bhaskaran, CEO, is an ex- Yale and IBM Zurich researcher and now EPSRC Manufacturing Fellow in the Department of Material Science.
Peiman Hosseini, CTO, completed his PhD research on Phase Change and Carbon based materials for cognitive computing and data storage.
