Organic-on-silicon photonic platform for advanced imagers, microdisplays and sensors

OLED-on-Silicon technology has reached industry maturity for OLED (organic light emitting diode) microdisplays, e.g., in near-to-eye applications. Anyway, there is a huge amount of further applications, which can be addressed with an organic frontplane on an integrated CMOS backplane, e.g., OPD (organic photo diode). This paper will report on latest results in the field of OPD-on-silicon sensing as well as OLED-on-silicon displays, sketching up the impact of a universal photonic platform comprising emitters, photodetectors and CMOS driving and read-out circuitry, based on application scenarios.