Gopalan Rajeswaran

Director & CEO
Grantwood Technologies Inc
Fairport, New York

G. Rajeswaran, Ph.D.
Fellow/Society for Information Display
Professor of Practice/Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Director & CEO/Grantwood Technologies Inc.

In 2013, Dr. Rajeswaran (“Raj”) was elected as a Fellow of the Society for Information Display “for pioneering contributions to the development, manufacturing and commercialization of AMOLED displays”.

In 1999, Raj demonstrated the world’s first AMOLED display on LTPS-TFT backplanes while at the Kodak Research Laboratory in Rochester/New York. Subsequently, he was responsible for the establishment in 2001 of the world’s first AMOLED display manufacturing joint venture between Kodak and Sanyo (“SK Display”) in Japan. At Kodak, Raj held leadership positions as the VP of Kodak’s Display Business Unit and as the Director of AMOLED display manufacturing technology. In 2001, Raj moved to Japan to serve SK Display and Kodak Japan in a leadership role to commercialize AMOLED displays. During his 7-year tenure in Japan, he led the teams that delivered the first commercial AMOLED displays to the market and developed many of the underlying production technologies that make modern AMOLED smartphone displays and OLED TVs possible. Between 2004 to 2007, he established the Kodak AMOLED technology collaborations with display industry leaders in Korea and Taiwan that triggered the growth of the AMOLED display industry (>USD25 billion in 2019).

In 2015, Raj founded the Grantwood group of companies to develop and commercialize next-generation technologies. Grantwood Technologies Pvt Ltd, a start-up established in 2018 in New Delhi by the Grantwood group, is currently engaged in a joint development program with the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (“IIT Madras”) to demonstrate building-block technologies for cost-effective, state-of-the-art, next-generation AMOLED displays. Raj, who is actively involved as a Principal Investigator in the AMOLED project, also holds an appointment as a Professor of Practice in the electrical engineering department at IIT Madras.

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Presentation(s):

• SID: Powering the Display Industry for 60 Years

  Wednesday, May 11, 2022
  2:00 PM – 5:05 PM

• 60th Anniversary The Development of OLED – Retrospection and Outlook

  Wednesday, May 11, 2022
  4:00 PM – 4:30 PM