As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 12 , 2008

 

  

10500 N.E. 8 th Street, Suite 1400,

Bellevue, WA 98004

(425)-749-3600

(Address and telephone number of principal executive offices and principal place of business)

 

Andrew G. Sculley, Chief Executive Officer

eMagin Corporation

10500 N.E. 8 th Street, Suite 1400,

Bellevue, WA 98004

(425)-749-3600

(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)

 

Copies to:

  Richard A. Friedman, Esq.

Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference LLP

61 Broadway, 32nd Flr.

New York, New York 10006

(212) 930-9700

(212) 930-9725 (fax)

 

APPROXIMATE DATE OF PROPOSED SALE TO THE PUBLIC:

From time to time after this Registration Statement becomes effective.

 

If any securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box:  x

 

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  o

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  o

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  o

 

If delivery of the prospectus is expected to be made pursuant to Rule 434, please check the following box.   o

 

The registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until the registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MARKET FOR COMMON EQUITY AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS  

Our common stock is quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol “EMAN.OB.” The following table sets forth the high and low sales prices as reported by the OTC Bulletin Board Market for the periods indicated.

 

Dividends

We have never declared or paid cash dividends on our common stock. We currently anticipate that we will retain all future earnings to fund the operation of our business and do not anticipate paying dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future.

 

 

 

 

SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

The following table summarizes our consolidated financial data for the periods presented. We prepared this information using our consolidated financial statements for each of the periods presented. The following selected consolidated financial data should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and related notes and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”. The historical results are not necessarily indicative of results to be expected for future periods.

 

 

 

 

  

BUSINESS  

Recent Developments

Amendment of Stillwater Note Purchase Agreement (the “Note”) - April 2007

As stated above, as previously reported in the Form 8-K dated July 25, 2006, on July 21, 2006, eMagin Corporation (the “Company”) entered into a Note Purchase Agreement (the “Stillwater Agreement”) with Stillwater LLC (“Stillwater”) which provides for the purchase and sale of a 6% senior secured convertible note in the principal amount of up to $500,000 (the “Stillwater Note”), together with a warrant (the “Stillwater Warrant”) to purchase 70% of the number of shares issuable upon conversion of the Stillwater Note, at the sole discretion of the Company by delivery of a notice to Stillwater on December 14, 2006.  Interest payments from the Stillwater Note are to be made in cash, unless Stillwater elects to convert any portion of the principal of the Stillwater Note plus any accrued and unpaid interest for such principal amount.

As previously reported in the Form 8-K dated April 13, 2007, by way of amendment to the Stillwater Agreement, dated March 28, 2007 (the “Amendment”), the Company and Stillwater agreed to certain amendments to the Stillwater Agreement. Based upon the provisions of the Stillwater Agreement, Stillwater was bound to purchase the Stillwater Note and the Stillwater Warrant so long as the conditions to closing as set forth in the Stillwater Agreement were satisfied by the Company.  However, prior to Stillwater’s obligation to purchase the Stillwater Note and Stillwater Warrant, the Company received notice from the American Stock Exchange (“AMEX”) that it was no longer in compliance with their listing requirements, and the Company was subsequently de-listed in March of 2007. Since compliance with the AMEX listing requirements was a condition of closing in the Stillwater Agreement, Stillwater was no longer obligated to purchase the Stillwater Note and Stillwater Warrant.  Therefore, among other things, pursuant to the Amendment, the parties agreed to a new conversion price for the Stillwater Note of $0.35 per share, a new exercise price for the Stillwater Warrant of $0.48 per share, a new closing date, and amended certain closing conditions, including the following: on the closing date, (i) trading in securities on the New York Stock Exchange, Inc., the AMEX, Nasdaq, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board, the Pink Sheets, LLC or any similar organization shall not have been suspended or materially limited, (ii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities in the State of New York shall not have been declared by either federal or state authorities, and (iii) the Company has obtained waivers from all the note holders of the other notes or has executed an additional Allonge with the majority holders to amend Section 3.2 of the Note and other notes to provide that the Company maintain cash and cash equivalents balances of at least equal to $200,000 from April 1, 2007 through and including May 15, 2007 and that subsequent to May 15, 2007 the Company maintain cash and cash equivalents balances of at least equal to $600,000.

 

 

 

 

If all of the Stillwater Warrants are exercised for cash, the Company would receive $480,000, which would be used for working capital and other corporate purposes. There cannot be any assurances that any of the Stillwater Warrants will be exercised. The closing for the sale of the Stillwater Note and Stillwater Warrant was completed on April 9, 2007 and the Company issued Stillwater the Stillwater Note in a 6% Senior Secured Convertible Note in the principal amount of $500,000 and the Stillwater Warrant to purchase 1,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price of $0.48 in accordance with the terms of the Stillwater Agreement and Amendment. Interest payments from the Stillwater Note are to be made in cash, unless Stillwater elects to convert any portion of the principal of the Stillwater Note plus any accrued and unpaid interest for such principal amount.  The principal of the Stillwater Note was due in installments as follows:

* If the due date falls on a non-business day, the payment date will be the next business day.

 

**On July, 23 2007, Stillwater elected to convert $252,166.50 of the Note representing $250,000 of the principal amount of the Note due on July 23, 2007 and $2,166.50 of accrued and unpaid interest into shares of common stock. Stillwater will receive 720,476 shares of the common stock at the conversion price of $0.35.

This prospectus covers the resale by Stillwater of the above-referenced common stock underlying the Stillwater Note and the Stillwater Warrant.

Amendment Agreements - July 2007

As previously reported in the Form 8-K of the Company dated as of July 25, 2006, the Company entered into several Note Purchase Agreements (the “Original Purchase Agreements”), including the Stillwater Agreement, to sell to certain qualified institutional buyers and accredited investors $5,990,000 in principal amount 6% Senior Secured Convertible Notes Due July 21, 2007 and January 21, 2008 (the “Notes”), together with warrants (the “Warrants”) to purchase 1,612,700 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share at $3.60 per share.

As previously reported in the Form 8-K of the Company dated as of July 25, 2007, by way of Amendment Agreements dated July 23, 2007 (the “Amendment Agreements”) between the Company and each of the holders of the Notes, including Stillwater (each a “Holder” and collectively, the “Holders”), the Company agreed to issue each Holder an amended and restated Note for the outstanding Notes (the “Amended Notes”) in the principal amount equal to the principal amount outstanding as of July 23, 2007 and an amended restated Warrant (the “Amended Warrants”).   The changes to the Amended Notes and Amended Warrants include the following:

·	The maturity date for the Amended Notes (totaling after conversions an aggregate of $6,020,000)  was extended to December 21, 2008;
·	Liquidated damages of 1% per month related to the Company’s delisting from the American Stock Exchange will no longer accrue and the deferred interest balance of approximately $230,000 has been forgiven;
·	The Company no longer has to maintain a minimum cash or cash equivalents balances of $600,000;
·	The Amended Notes may not be prepaid without the consent of the Holders;
·	As of July 23, 2007 the interest rate was raised from 6% per annum to 8% per annum;
·	The Amended Notes are convertible into (i) 8,407,612 shares of the Company’s common stock.  The conversion price for the Amended Notes was revised from $2.60 to $.75 per share except for the Stillwater Note which remained $.35 per share for $250,000 of principal (which represents the remaining portion of the original principal balance of $500,000 after Stillwater’s partial conversion);
·	In addition to the right to convert the Amended Notes in the Company’s common stock, up to $3,010,000 of the Amended Notes can be converted into (ii) 3,010 shares of the Company’s newly formed Series A Senior Secured Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Preferred”) at a stated value of $1,000 per share.  The Preferred is convertible into common stock at $.75 per share, subject to adjustment as provided for in the Certificate of Designations (discussed below);
·	Except for the Stillwater Warrant whose exercise price was unchanged,, the Amendment Agreements adjusted the exercise price of the Amended Warrants from $3.60 to $1.03 per share for 1,553,468 shares of common stock and requires the issuance of Warrants exercisable for an additional 3,831,859 shares of common stock  at  $1.03 per share with an expiration date of July 21, 2011;
·	The Amended Notes eliminate the requirement that the Company comply with certain covenants of management contained in the Notes. Specifically, among other things, the requirements to defer management compensation and to maintain a management committee were removed; and
·	The Amended Notes and/or the Preferred are subject to certain anti-dilution adjustment rights in the event the Company issues shares of its common stock or securities convertible into its common stock at a price per share that is less than the Conversion Price, in which case the Conversion Price shall be adjusted to such lower price.  The Amended Warrants are subject to certain anti-dilution adjustment rights in the event the Company issues shares of its common stock or securities convertible into its common stock at a price per share that is less than the Strike Price, in which case the Strike Price shall be adjusted to the lower of (1) 138% of the price at which such common stock is issued or issuable and (2) the exercise price of warrants, issued in such transaction.

 

 

 

 

 

Pursuant to the Amended Notes, the Company cannot enter into a transaction that constitutes a Fundamental Change without the consent of the Holders.  A Fundamental Change includes the following:

·	the consolidation or merger of the Company or any of its subsidiaries;
·	the acquisition by a person or group of entities acting in concert of 50% or more of the combined voting power of the outstanding  securities of the Company; and
·	the occurrence of any transaction or event in which all or substantially all of the shares of the Company’s common stock is exchanged for converted into acquired for or constitutes the right to receive consideration which is not all or substantially all common stock which is listed on a national securities exchange or approved for quotation on Nasdaq or any similar United States system of automated dissemination of transaction reporting securities prices.

Pursuant to the Amendment Agreements, the Company filed a Certificate of Designations of Series A Senior Secured Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Certificate of Designations”). The Certificate of Designations designates 3,198 shares of the Company’s preferred stock as Series A Senior Secured Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Preferred Stock”).  Each share of the Preferred Stock has a stated value of $1,000.  The Preferred Stock is entitled to cumulative dividends which accrue at a rate of 8% per annum, payable on December 21, 2008. Each share of Preferred Stock has voting rights equal to (1) in any case in which the Preferred Stock votes together with the Company’s common stock or any other class or series of stock of the Company, the number of shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of such shares of Preferred Stock at such time (determined without regard to the shares of common stock so issuable upon such conversion in respect of accrued and unpaid dividends on such share of Preferred Stock) and (2) in any case not covered by the immediately preceding clause one vote per share of Preferred Stock.  The Certificate of Designations prohibits the Company from entering into a Fundamental Change without consent of the Holders and contains antidilution adjustments rights that are comparable to the antidilution adjustments contained in the Amended Notes.

Pursuant to the Amendment Agreements, the Company was required to file a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission by August 31, 2007 covering the resale of 100% of the sum of (a) the number of shares issuable upon conversion of the Amended Notes and Preferred Stock, and (b) the number of shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants.

Pursuant to the Amendment Agreement, the Company and the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the note holders, executed Amendment No. 1 to the Pledge and Security Agreement; Amendment No. 1 to Patent and Trademark Security Agreement; Amendment No. 1 to Lockbox Agreement.  The Pledge and Security Agreement, Trademark Security Agreement and Lockbox Agreement were previously entered into on July 21, 2006 (collectively, the “Ancillary Agreements”).  The Ancillary Agreements were amended to cover obligations that may become payable to holders of Preferred Stock, to delete certain definitions used in the Ancillary Agreements and substitute definitions of terms used in the Ancillary Agreements.

The summary of amendment terms contained herein does not include all information included in the Amendment Agreement, the Amended Notes, the Amended Warrants, the Certificate of Designations or the Ancillary Agreements and, consequently, is qualified in its entirety by reference to the entire text of the Amendment Agreements and the forms of the Amended Notes, Amended Warrants, Certificate of Designations, Amendment No. 1 to Pledge and Security Agreement, Amendment No. 1 to Patent and Trademark Security Agreement and Amendment No. 1 to Lockbox Agreement.

Securities Purchase Agreement – April 2008

As previously reported on a Form 8-K that was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 4, 2008, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement on April 2, 2008, (the “Purchase Agreement”) pursuant to which it sold to certain qualified institutional buyers and accredited investors (the “Investors”) an aggregate of 1,586,539 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Shares”), and warrants to purchase an additional 793,273 shares of common stock, for an aggregate purchase price of $1,650,000. The purchase price of the common stock was $1.04 per share and the strike price of the corresponding warrant was $1.30 per share. The warrants expire April 2, 2013.

The Company entered into a Registration Rights Agreement with the Investors to register the resale of the Shares sold in the offering and the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants.  Subject to the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company was required to file a registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) within 45 days of the closing, to use its best efforts to cause the registration statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Act”) as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in no event later than 90 days after the filing date and no later than 120 days after the filing date in the event of SEC review of the registration statement. The Company filed the registration statement within the 45 day period however the Company was notified that the registration statement was under review by the SEC.  The Company failed to file the amended registration statement by August 2, 2008 which was the 120th day from the signing of the Purchase Agreement and therefore the registration statement is not effective.

 

 

 

 

As the registration statement is not effective within the grace periods (“Event Date”), the Company must pay partial liquidated damages (“damages”) in cash to each investor equal to 2% of the aggregate purchase price paid by each investor under the Purchase Agreement on the Event Date and each monthly anniversary of the Event Date (or on a pro-rata basis for any portion of a month) until the registration statement is effective.  The Company is not liable for any damages with respect to the warrants or warrant shares.  The maximum damages payable to each investor is 36% of the aggregate purchase price.  If the Company fails to pay the damages to the investors within 7 days after the date payable, the Company must pay interest at a rate of 15% per annum to each investor which accrues daily from the date payable until damages are paid in full.  The Company estimated $399 thousand to be the maximum potential damages that the Company may be required to pay the investors if the registration statement is not effective within three years of the signing of the agreement. The Company estimated $66 thousand to be a reasonable estimate of the potential damages that may be due to the investors based on the anticipated filing date.

The Company claims an exemption from the registration requirements of the Act for the private placement of these securities pursuant to Section 4(2) of the Act and/or Regulation D promulgated thereunder since, among other things, the transaction did not involve a public offering, the investors were accredited investors and/or qualified institutional buyers, the investors had access to information about the company and their investment, the investors took the securities for investment and not resale, and the Company took appropriate measures to restrict the transfer of the securities.

Moriah Capital Loan Agreement and Amendments

As previously reported on a Form 8-K that was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 10, 2007, the Company and Moriah Capital LP (“Moriah”) entered into a Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of August 7, 2007 (the “Loan and Security Agreement”), which was amended as of January 30, 2008 by Amendment No. 1 and on March 18, 2008 by Amendment No. 2 (collectively, the “Original Agreement”).

As previously reported on a Form 8-K that was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 26, 2008, the Company and Moriah entered into Amendment No. 3 to the Loan and Security Agreement dated August 20, 2008 (the “Amendment No. 3”). Pursuant to Amendment No. 3, the Company issued Moriah an Amended and Restated Convertible Revolving Loan Note (the “Amended Note”).   The maturity date of the Amended Note has been extended to August 7, 2009 and the maximum amount that the Company can borrow pursuant to the Amended Note was increased to $3,000,000. The maturity date of the original revolving loan note had previously been extended to August 20, 2008.

Pursuant to Amendment No. 3, the Company issued Moriah a warrant, which terminates on August 7, 2013, to purchase up to 370,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price of $1.30 per share. In connection with Amendment No 3, the Company will pay Moriah $85,000 in fees.  As previously reported, pursuant to Original Agreement, the Company issued Moriah warrants to purchase up to 1,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price of $1.50 per share.

Pursuant to Amendment No. 3, the Company and Moriah entered into an Amended and Restated Securities Issuance agreement (the “Amended and Restated Securities Issuance Agreement”). In connection with a Securities Issuance Agreement, dated as of August 7, 2007 (the “Original Securities Issuance Agreement”), the Company issued Moriah 162,500 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “2007 Shares”).  Pursuant to the Amended and Restated Securities Issuance Agreement, Moriah agreed to waive the Company’s obligation to buy back the 2007 Shares with respect to 125,000 of such shares and to defer the Company’s obligation to buy back 37,500 of such 2007 Shares  (collectively, the “Put Waiver”). Pursuant to the Amended and Restated Securities Agreement, the Company is issuing Moriah 485,000 shares of its Common Stock (of which 125,000 shares were issued in consideration for the Put Waiver from Moriah and 360,000 shares were issued in lieu of the issuance to Moriah of the Contingent Issued Shares (as described in the Original Securities Issuance Agreement)). Additionally, pursuant to the Amended and Restated Securities Issuance Agreement, the Company has also granted Moriah a put option pursuant to which Moriah can sell to the Company 162,500 shares of its common stock issued under the Amended and Restated Securities Agreement for $195,000, pro-rated for any portion thereof (the “2007 Put Price”). The 2007 Put Option shall automatically be deemed exercised by Moriah unless Moriah delivers written notice to the Company at any time between July 1, 2009 and August 1, 2009 that it does not wish to exercise the 2007 Put Option. The Company also granted Moriah a second put option pursuant to which Moriah can sell 360,000 of the shares issued to Moriah pursuant to the Amended and Restated Securities Purchase Agreement to the Company for $234,000 (the “2008 Put Option”).  The 2008 Put Option shall automatically be deemed exercised by Moriah unless Moriah delivers written notice to the Company at any time between July 1, 2009 and August 1, 2009 that Moriah does not wish to exercise the 2008 Put option in whole or in part.

Pursuant to Amendment No. 3, the Company and Moriah entered into an Amendment to Registration Rights Agreement (the “Amended Registration Rights Agreement”).   Pursuant to the Amended Registration Rights Agreement, the Company agreed to use its best efforts to file a registration statement to register the 485,000 shares of the Company’s common stock issued pursuant to the Amended and Restated Securities Issuance Agreement and the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrant, provided that the Company is permitted under applicable securities rules and regulations and after the certain other registration statements that the Company was obligated to file on behalf of selling shareholders have been  declared effective.

 

 

 

The Company claims an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, amended (the "Act") for the private placement of the above-referenced securities pursuant to Section 4(2) of the Act since, among other things, these transactions did not involve a public offering and the Company took appropriate measures to restrict the transfer of the securities.

 

The foregoing description of Amendment No. 3 to the Loan and Security Agreement, the Amended and Restated Revolving Loan Note, the Amended and Restated Securities Issuance Agreement, and the Amendment to the Registration Rights Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the entire text of the agreements.

 

General

 

eMagin Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and markets virtual imaging products which utilize OLEDs, or organic light emitting diodes, OLED-on-silicon microdisplays and related information technology solutions. We integrate OLED technology with silicon chips to produce high-resolution microdisplays smaller than one-inch diagonally which, when viewed through a magnifier, create virtual images that appear comparable in size to that of a computer monitor or a large-screen television. Our products enable our original equipment manufacturer, or OEM, customers to develop and market improved or new electronic products. We believe that virtual imaging will become an important way for increasingly mobile people to have quick access to high resolution data, work, and experience new more immersive forms of communications and entertainment.

Our first commercial product, the SVGA+ (Super Video Graphics Array of 800x600 picture elements plus 52 added columns of data) OLED microdisplay was initially offered for sampling in 2001, and our first SVGA-3D (Super Video Graphics Array plus built-in stereovision capability) OLED microdisplay was shipped in early 2002. These products have received award recognition including: SID Display of the Year and Electronic Products Magazine Product of the Year. These products are being applied or considered for near-eye and headset applications in products such as entertainment and gaming headsets, handheld Internet and telecommunication appliances, viewfinders, and wearable computers to be manufactured by OEM customers for military, medical, industrial, and consumer applications. We market our products globally.

In 2006 we introduced our OLED-XL technology, which provides longer luminance half life and enhanced efficiency of eMagin's SVGA+ and SVGA-3D product lines. We are in the process of completing development of 2 additional OLED microdisplays, namely the SVGA 3DS (SVGA 3D shrink, a smaller format SVGA display with a new cell architecture with embedded features) and an SXGA (1280 x 1024 picture elements).

In January 2005 we announced the world's first personal display system to combine OLED technology with head-tracking and 3D stereovision, the Z800 3DVisor(tm), which was first shipped in mid-2005. This product was recognized as a Digital Living Class of 2005 Innovators, and received the Consumer Electronics Association’s coveted Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2006 Best of Innovation Awards for the entire display category as well as a Design and Innovations Award for the electronic gaming category. In February 2007 the Z800 3DVisor, as integrated in Chatten Associates’ head-aimed remote viewer, was recognized as one of Advanced Imaging's Solutions of the Year.

We believe that our OLED-on-silicon microdisplays offer a number of advantages over current liquid crystal microdisplays, including greatly increased system level power efficiency, less weight and wider viewing angles. Using our active matrix OLED technology, many computer and video electronic system functions can be built directly into the OLED-on-silicon microdisplay, resulting in compact systems with expected lower overall system costs relative to alternative microdisplay technologies. We have developed our own technology to create high performance OLED-on-silicon microdisplays and related optical systems and we have licensed certain fundamental OLED and display technology from Eastman Kodak.

As the first to exploit OLED technology for microdisplays, and with the support of our partners and the development of our intellectual property, we believe that we enjoy a significant advantage in the commercialization of this display technology for virtual imaging. We believe we are the only company to sell full-color active matrix small molecule OLED-on-silicon microdisplays.

eMagin Corporation was created through the merger of Fashion Dynamics Corporation ("FDC"), which was organized on January 23, 1996 under the laws of the State of Nevada and FED Corporation ("FED"), a developer and manufacturer of optical systems and microdisplays for use in the electronics industry. FDC had no active business operations other than to acquire an interest in a business. On March 16, 2000, FDC acquired FED. Simultaneous with this merger, we changed our name to eMagin Corporation. Following the merger, the business conducted by eMagin is the business conducted by FED prior to the merger.

Our website is located at www.emagin.com and our e-commerce site is www.3dvisor.com . We make available on our website, free of charge, our annual report on Forms 10-K, our proxy statement, our quarterly reports on Forms 10Q, our current reports on Form 8K, and all amendments to such reports filed under the Securities and Exchange Act, earnings press releases, and other business-related press releases. We also post on our website the charters of our Audit, Compensation, Governance and Nominating committees, our Codes of Ethics and any amendments of or waiver to those codes of ethics, and other corporate governance materials recommended by the Securities and Exchange Commission as they occur.

 

 

 

Industry Overview

A study by NanoMarkets (February 2007) predicts the overall OLED market will approach $10.9 billion in 2010 and grow to $15.5 billion by 2014. These markets include various sizes devices for a range of applications from cell phone size to viewfinder displays to televisions to lighting. Displays in general are sold as independent products (such as TV monitors) or as components of other systems (such as laptop computers). Our products target one segment of the display industry, the near-eye, personal display, which is viewed through a lens rather than directly, in comparison to desktop computer screens which are known as direct view displays. As an off-shoot of our work in microdisplays, we are also participating in government-funded development studies for OLED-based lighting.

Personal displays, that is, near-eye systems based on microdisplays and optics, include video headsets, camcorders, viewfinders and other portable devices. Microdisplays are typically of such high resolution that they can be practically viewed only with magnifying optics. Although microdisplays are typically physically smaller than a postage stamp, they can provide a magnified viewing area similar to that of a full-size computer screen. For example, when magnified through a lens, a high-resolution 0.6-inch diagonal display can appear comparable to a 19- to 21-inch computer screen at about 2 feet from the viewer or a 60-inch TV screen at about 6 feet.  The wearable display market, according to DisplaySearch, is expected to grow to at least $153 million in 2010. McLaughlin Consulting, in a report published December 2006, projects that, with effective marketing, the Personal Viewer market could reach nearly $1 billion in 2010.

We believe that the most significant driver of the longer term near-eye virtual imaging microdisplay market is growing consumer demand for mobile access to larger volumes of information and entertainment in smaller packages. This desire for mobility has resulted in the development of near-eye microdisplay products in two general categories: (i) an established market for electronic viewers incorporated in products such as viewfinders for digital cameras and video cameras which may potentially also be developed as personal viewers for cell phones and (ii) an emerging market for headset-application platforms which include accessories for mobile devices such as notebook and sub-notebook computers, portable DVD systems, electronic games, and other entertainment, and wearable computers.

Until now, near-eye virtual imaging microdisplay technologies have not simultaneously met all of the requirements for high resolution, full color, low power consumption, brightness, lifetime, size and cost which are required for successful commercialization in OEM consumer products. We believe that our new OLED-on-silicon microdisplay product line meets these requirements better than alternative products and will help to enable virtual imaging to emerge as an important display industry segment.

Our Approach: OLED-on-Silicon Microdisplays and Optics

There are two basic classes of organic light emitting diode, or OLED, technology, dubbed single molecule or small molecule (monomer) and polymer. Our microdisplays are currently based upon active matrix molecular OLED technology, which we call OLED-on-silicon because we build the displays directly on silicon chips. Our OLED-on-silicon technology uniquely permits millions of individual low-voltage light sources to be built on low-cost, silicon computer chips to produce single color, white or full-color display arrays. OLED-on-silicon microdisplays offer a number of advantages over current liquid crystal microdisplays, including increased brightness, lower power requirements, less weight and wider viewing angles. Using our OLED technology, many computer and video electronic system functions can be built directly into the silicon chip, under the OLED film, resulting in very compact, integrated systems with lowered overall system costs relative to alternative technologies.

We have developed our own proprietary and patented technology to create high performance OLED-on-silicon microdisplays and related optical systems, and we license fundamental OLED technology from Eastman Kodak. (See "Intellectual Property" and "Strategic Relationships"). We expect that the integration of our OLED-on-silicon microdisplays into mobile electronic products will result in lower overall system costs to our OEM customers.

We believe that our OLED-on-silicon microdisplays will initiate a new generation of virtual imaging products that could have a profound impact on many industries. Headsets providing virtual screens surrounding the user in a sphere of data become a practical reality with our displays and a low cost head tracker. Because our microdisplays generate and emit light, they have a wider viewing angle than competing liquid crystal microdisplays, and because they have the same high brightness at all forward viewing angles, our microdisplays permit a large field-of-view and superior optical image.

The wider viewing angle of our display results in the following superior optical characteristics in comparison with LCDs and other near-eye display technologies:

·	the user does not need to accurately position the head-wearable display to the eye;

·	the image will change minimally with eye movement and appear more natural; and

·	the display can be placed further from the eye and not cut off part of the image.

In addition, our OLED-on-silicon microdisplays offer faster response times and use much less power than competitive liquid crystal microdisplay systems. Our subsystem-level power consumption is so low that two SVGA, full color, full speed motion video computer displays can easily be run in stereovision off the power from a single USB port on a portable computer. Battery life is extended and weight is greatly reduced in systems using our products.

 

 

 

 

Our SVGA+ OLED microdisplay stores all the color and luminance value information at each of the more than 1.5 million picture elements, or pixels, between refresh cycles in the display array, eliminating the flicker or color breakup seen by most other high-resolution microdisplay technologies. Even power efficient frame rates as low as 30 Hz can usually be used effectively. Power consumption at the system level is expected to be the lowest of any full-color, full-video SVGA resolution range, large view microdisplay on the market. The OLED's ability to emit light at wide angles allows customers to create large field of view (approx. 40 degrees), wide image capture range images from very compact, low-cost, one-piece optical systems. The display contains the majority of the electronics required for connection to the RGB (red, green, blue signal) port of a portable computer imbedded in its silicon chip backplane, thereby eliminating many other components required by other display technologies such as digital-analog converters, application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), light sources, multiple optical elements, and other components. We believe that these features will enable our new class of microdisplay to potentially be the most compact, highest image quality, and lowest cost solution for high resolution near-eye applications, once they are in full production.

We have also developed advanced lens technology which permits our OLED-on-silicon microdisplays to provide large field of view images that can be viewed for extended periods with reduced eye-fatigue. Molded plastic prism lenses have been developed to help our OEM customers obtain better quality, large area virtual images using our displays at relatively low cost in comparison to alternate approaches.

Our Products

Our first commercial microdisplay products are based on our "SVGA series" OLED microdisplays. We offer products utilizing both our proprietary “OLED” or “OLED-XL” technologies, applied to the same integrated circuit base. We offer our products to OEMs and other large volume buyers as both separate components, integrated bundles coupled with our own optics, or full systems. We also offer engineering support to enable customers to quickly integrate our products into their own product development programs.

  (1) OLED Microdisplay Component Products

SVGA+ OLED Microdisplay (Super Video Graphics Array of 800x600 plus 52 added columns of data).   Our 0.62 inch diagonal SVGA+ OLED microdisplays have a resolution of 852x600 triad pixels (1.53 million picture elements). The product was dubbed "SVGA+" because it has 52 more display columns than a standard SVGA display, permitting users to run either (1) standard SVGA (800 x 600 pixels) to interface to the analog output of many portable computers or (2) 852 x 480, using all the data available from a DVD player in a 16:9 wide screen entertainment format. The display also has an internal NTSC monochrome video decoder for low power night vision systems.

SVGA-3D OLED Microdisplay (Super Video Graphics Array plus built-in stereovision capability).   Our 0.59 inch diagonal SVGA-3D OLED microdisplays have a resolution of 800x600 triad pixels (1.44 million picture elements). A built-in circuit provides compatibility with single channel frame sequential stereoscopic vision without additional external components.

Microdisplays Under Development.   We are developing two additional display products, a smaller format (SVGA-3DS) version of our SVGA display, which will have 800 x 600 triad pixels and be 0.44 inch diagonal and a 0.77 inch SXGA OLED microdisplay with resolution of 1280x 1024 triad pixels. These new products offer both analog and digital signal inputs in a compact display with greater power efficiency. With the world’s finest pitch (11.1 microns) and a high level of integrated functionality, the SVGA-3DS provides a simple path to system integration in a small format. The SXGA split chip architecture offers unprecedented power consumption savings for this display format in addition to a highly flexible system interface configuration.

Lens and Design Reference Kit s . We offer a WF05 prism optic, with mounting brackets or combined with OLED microdisplays to form an optic-display module. We provide Design Reference Kits, which include a microdisplay and associated electronics to help OEMs evaluate our microdisplay products and to assist their efforts to build and test new products incorporating our microdisplays.

Integrated Modules. We provide near-eye virtual imaging modules that incorporate our OLED-on-silicon microdisplays with our lenses and electronic interfaces for integration into OEM products. We have shipped customized modules to several customers, some of which have incorporated our products into their own commercial products.

(2) Personal Display Systems (Head-Wearable and Headset Systems)

Our Z800 3DVisors(tm) give users the ability to work with their hands while simultaneously viewing information or video on the display. The Z800 3DVisor enables more versatile portable computing, using a 0.59-inch diagonal microdisplay (SVGA-3D capable of delivering an image that appears comparable to that of a 19-inch monitor at 22 to 24 inches from the eye, or a 105 inch movie screen at 12 foot distance. Our systems are currently being used for personal entertainment, electronic gaming, and military training and simulation, among other applications. We believe that personal display systems will fill the increasing demand for instant data accessibility and privacy in mobile workplaces. We sell the personal display systems to OEM systems and equipment customers, through distributors, and through our e-commerce website, www.3dvisor.com.

 

Our Market Opportunity - Personal Display Systems Platforms, including Head-wearable Displays

The growth potential of our selected target market segments have been investigated using information gathered from key industry market research firms, including DisplaySearch, Frost and Sullivan, Fuji-Chimera, International Data Corporation, Nikkei, SEMI, Stanford Resources-iSuppli and others. Such data was obtained using published reports and data obtained at industry symposia. We have also relied substantially on market projections obtained privately from industry leaders, industry analysts, and current and potential customers.

 

 

 

 

The virtual-imaging markets we are targeting include industrial, medical, military, arcade games, 3-D CAD/Virtual Reality, and wearable computers. Within each of these market sectors, we believe that our microdisplays, when combined with compact optic lenses, will become a key component for a number of mobile electronic products. Applications we are targeting the following:

Head-wearable displays incorporate microdisplays mounted in or on eyeglasses, goggles, simple headbands, helmets, or hardhats, and are often referred to as head-mounted displays (HMDs) or headsets. Head-wearable displays may block out surroundings for a fully immersive experience, or be designed as "see-through" or "see-around" to the user's surroundings. They may contain one (monocular) or two (binocular) displays. Some of the increased current interest is due to accelerating the timetable to adapt such systems to military applications such as night vision and fire and rescue applications. These have military, commercial, and consumer applications.

 

Military

Military demand for head-wearable displays is currently being met with microdisplay technologies that we believe to be inferior to our OLED-on-silicon products. The new generation of soldiers will be highly mobile, and will often need to carry highly computerized communications and surveillance equipment. To enable interaction with the digital battlespace, rugged, yet lightweight and energy efficient technology is required. Currently available microdisplay technologies do not meet the requirements for low power, hands-free, day and night-viewable displays. As a COTS (commercial off the shelf) component, OLED microdisplays demonstrate performance characteristics important to military and other demanding commercial and industrial applications including high brightness and resolution, wide dimming range, wider temperature operating ranges, shock and vibration resistance and insensitivity to high G-forces. The image does not suffer from flicker or color breakup in vibrating environments, and the microdisplay's wide viewing angle allows ease of viewing for long periods of time. The OLED's very low power consumption reduces battery weight and increases allowed mission length. Properly implemented, we believe that head-mounted systems incorporating our microdisplays will increase effectiveness by allowing hands-free operation and increasing situational awareness with enough brightness to be used in daylight, yet controllable for nighttime light security. The OLED's inherent wide temperature range is especially of interest for military applications because the display can turn on instantly at temperatures far below freezing and can operate at very high temperatures in desert conditions.

Our OLED microdisplays have been selected for a range of defense-security applications, including a situational awareness HMD for the US Army Land Warrior programs, a handheld thermal imager for border patrol and training, and simulation virtual monitors for Quantum 3D. The Land Warrior, a baseline program in the Army's drive to digitize the battlefield, is an integrated digital system that incorporates computerized communication, navigation, targeting and protection systems for use by the twenty-first century infantry soldier. Rockwell Collins, the principal contractor for the US Army's Land Warrior HMD system, and eMagin applied their respective expertise in HMD and imaging technology to develop rugged, yet lightweight and energy efficient products meeting the requirements of tomorrow's soldier. Our display is also used in Rockwell Collins’ commercially available ProView S035 Monocular HMD. Night Vision Equipment Corporation's HelmetIR-50(TM), a lightweight, military helmet mounted thermal imager, which provides hands-free operation and allows viewers to see through total darkness, battlefield obscurants, and even foliage, is the first OLED-equipped product to be listed on the US Government's GSA schedule. Virtually Better Inc. has incorporated our Z800 3DVisor into its “Virtual Iraq” treatment for post-traumatic stress disorders.  In addition, our displays have been commercialized, or planned to be commercialized, by military systems integrators including DRS, Elbit, Insight Technologies, Nivisys, Qioptiq, Saab, Sagem, and Thales, , among others. We cannot assure that Government projects will remain on schedule, or that they will be fully implemented. Similar systems are of interest for other military applications as well as for related operations such as urban security, fire and rescue.

Commercial, Industrial, and Medical

We believe that a wide variety of commercial and industrial markets offer significant opportunities due to increasing demand for instant data accessibility in mobile workplaces. Some examples of microdisplay applications include: immediate access to inventory such as parts, tools and equipment availability; instant accessibility to maintenance or construction manuals; routine quality assurance inspection; endoscopic surgery; and real-time viewing of images and data for a variety of applications. As one potential example, a user wearing a HMD while using test equipment, such as oscilloscopes, can view technical data while simultaneously probing printed circuit boards. Commercial products in these sectors include Sage Technologies, Ltd.'s Helmet Vue (TM) Thermal Imaging System and Liteye's 500. VRmagic GmbH, a leading developer of virtual reality simulators, is using our OLED microdisplays in their EYESI(TM) Virtual Reality Surgical Simulator, which provides real-time simulation of ophthalmic surgery, high performance biomechanical tissue simulation, precision tracking, and realistic stereo imaging. Sensics has incorporated our OLED displays in their immersive SkyVizor (TM) virtual reality headset to serve as the "eyes" of the Robonaut, a humanoid robot being developed by NASA and Department of Defense agencies. The Robonaut system can work side by side with humans, or alone in high-risk situations. Telepresence uses virtual reality display technology to visually immerse the operator into the robot's workspace, facilitating operation and interaction with the Robonaut, and potentially reducing the number of dangerous space walks required of real astronauts.  Another recent example is Saab Avitronics, which has chosen eMagin microdisplays for its new Multi-Purpose Virtual Image Display (VID) which comprises high-performance magnifying optics and the OLED, sealed in an aluminum casing.

 

 

 

Consumer

Once our displays are manufactured in high volumes at reduced costs, we believe that our head-wearable display products may enhance the following consumer products:

 

The combination of power efficiency, high resolution, low systems cost, brightness and compact size offered by our OLED-on-silicon microdisplays has not been made available to makers and integrators of existing entertainment and gaming video headset systems, notebook computers and handheld computers. We believe that our microdisplays have the potential to propel the growth of new products and applications such as lightweight wearable computer systems.

Our Strategy

Our strategy is to establish and maintain a leadership position as a worldwide supplier of microdisplays and virtual imaging technology solutions for applications in high growth segments of the electronics industry by capitalizing on our leadership in both OLED-on-silicon technology and microdisplay lens technology. We aim to provide microdisplay and complimentary accessories to enable OEM customers to develop and manufacture new and enhanced electronic products. Some key elements of our strategy to achieve these objectives includes the following:

 

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Our Strategic Relationships

Strategic relationships have been an important part of our research and development efforts to date and are an integral part of our plans for commercial product launch. We have forged strategic relationships with major OEMs and strategic suppliers. We believe that strategic relationships allow us to better determine the demands of the marketplace and, as a result, allow us to focus our future research and development activities to better meet our customer's requirements. Moreover, we expect to provide microdisplays and Microviewers(TM) to some of these partners, thereby taking advantage of established distribution channels for our products.

Eastman Kodak is a technology partner in OLED development, OLED materials, and a potential future customer for both specialty market display systems and consumer market microdisplays. We license Eastman Kodak's OLED and optics technology portfolio. We have a nonexclusive; perpetual, worldwide license to use Eastman Kodak patented OLED technology and associated intellectual property in the development, use, manufacture, import and sale of microdisplays. The license covers emissive active matrix microdisplays with a diagonal size of less than 2 inches for all OLED display technology previously developed by Kodak. An annual minimum royalty is paid at the beginning of each calendar year and is fully creditable against the royalties we are obligated to pay based on net sales throughout the year. Eastman Kodak and eMagin have engaged in numerous discussions regarding potential product applications for eMagin's microdisplays by Eastman Kodak.

We are working cooperatively with the US Army, US Navy, and with several military system integrators to further characterize operation of our displays in rugged military environments. We have a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the US Army Night Vision Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD) to characterize performance of our displays. We are currently partnering with the University of Michigan to develop advanced display process via a government-sponsored research program. We intend to continue to establish additional strategic relationships in the future.

We are a member of the United States Display Consortium (USDC), a cooperative effort between industry and government whose charter is to develop an infrastructure to support North American flat panel display manufacturing. It has more than 100 members, as well as support from the Department of Defense. The USDC’s role is to provide a common platform for flat panel display manufacturers, developers, users and the manufacturing equipment and supplier base.

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Advantages of OLED Technology

We believe that our OLED-on-silicon technology provides significant advantages over existing solutions in our targeted microdisplay markets. We believe these key advantages will include: