Marketing Director for the Display Equipment Market
Coherent
Laser Solutions for Display Manufacturing - Now, Next, and Beyond
Education:
Holding a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Hannover/Germany
Experience:
Worked at Laser Zentrum Hannover on laser processes for brittle materials like glass and silicon. Worked as product line manager for Coherent Excimer lasers and FlexOLED LLO systems in Goettingen/Germany, since 2015 focused additionally on laser based MicroLED and OLED display applications. Currently responsible for the products and market strategy related to display capital equipment at Coherent within the CMO team.
Displays are our window into the connected world. Nearly every consumer device today has a display. A smartphone without a display is impossible to imagine. Displays are getting larger and more interactive in our homes and in our cars. State of the art displays are slim, bendable, high resolution and have a wide color gamut. Future displays will range in size from tiny ones, for AR/VR applications, to more than 100 inch in diagonal, for very large wall TVs. Lasers play an essential role to produce state-of-the-art displays especially when it comes to high-end high-resolution displays. Today we are talking mainly about OLED displays for smart phones, next will be the adoption of OLED displays in the IT sector, and beyond there is an incremental market opportunity for MicroLED displays from the very small range in AR to the very large 4K TV market. Over the last years more and more UV short wavelengths lasers are implemented and required in the production due to the display material combinations, increase of active display areas, and pixel sizes down to the Micron level.