SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 13, 2026--
Universal Vapor Jet Corporation (UVJC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Universal Display Corporation (UDC) (Nasdaq: OLED), today announced the official launch of NovaJet, the first commercial system built on its proprietary Universal Vapor Jet Printing (UVJP) platform.
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Available to order now and ready for deployment at customer sites, NovaJet provides materials scientists, process engineers and manufacturers with a customer-ready platform to evaluate advanced materials, develop deposition processes and validate applications across a range of industries. The system deposits functional materials directly onto substrates including silicon wafers, glass, polymers and metals, supporting the development of next-generation technologies across semiconductor, electronics and other advanced manufacturing applications. Developed and built in Singapore, the system advances the commercialization of UVJP technology and expands UVJC’s ability to support customers from application development through manufacturing implementation.
“NovaJet is the first commercial realization of our Universal Vapor Jet Printing platform,” said Chandran Nair, Chief Executive Officer of UVJC. “As industries pursue increasingly advanced materials and device architectures, bridging the gap between innovation and manufacturing has become essential. NovaJet was designed to give researchers, engineers and manufacturers a highly flexible platform for advancing new materials, developing processes and accelerating the path toward commercial production.”
NovaJet is being showcased to customers, researchers and industry partners at the WESEMiBAY Semiconductor Ecosystem Conference and Expo in Shenzhen, China. Visitors to UVJC’s Booth 8G03 can view coated substrates and printed samples produced on the company’s production system in Singapore, alongside a scale model of the NovaJet platform.
From Laboratory Validation to Manufacturing
The discovery of a promising new material is only the first step toward commercial adoption. Bringing advanced materials from laboratory research into scalable manufacturing often requires extensive process development, application qualification and production optimization. NovaJet is designed to help address this challenge by providing a flexible environment where materials scientists, process engineers and manufacturers can validate advanced materials, deposition processes and applications in laboratory settings before progressing toward larger-scale production.
Built on UVJC’s proprietary UVJP technology, NovaJet enables precise, solvent-free deposition of functional materials without the use of solvents, masks or conventional lithography. By bringing multiple stages of thin-film development onto a single dry platform, NovaJet helps streamline workflows while providing greater flexibility for process exploration and optimization.
Once a process has been validated on NovaJet, UVJC can work with customers to support its transition into production through UVJP process and application intellectual property tailored to specific production requirements and end-use applications. Depending on customer needs, this may include larger-scale, automated or customised UVJP systems, including integrated, roll-to-roll and large-area production systems, over time.
Applications Across Advanced Industries
NovaJet is suited for applications where precise, solvent-free and digitally patterned deposition can offer meaningful advantages in materials development and advanced manufacturing. These include semiconductor advanced packaging, perovskites and solar technologies, biomedical and pharmaceutical applications, surface-energy modification, and sensors and monitoring systems.
The platform operates without substrate heating, making it suitable for delicate, non-planar and temperature-sensitive surfaces. It can also support multiple materials and graded compositions within a single process step, enabling the exploration of complex material systems and device architectures across a broad range of industries. By providing a pathway from early-stage research through process qualification and manufacturing scale-up, NovaJet is designed to help accelerate the translation of advanced materials innovation into commercial technologies.
Following its debut at WESEMiBAY, UVJC plans to showcase NovaJet at industry and technical events worldwide, including the 2026 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit in Boston, Massachusetts, which runs from 1 to 4 December.
To learn more about NovaJet, discuss evaluation opportunities or schedule a consultation, contact explore@uvjc.com.
About Universal Vapor Jet Corporation
Universal Vapor Jet Corporation (UVJC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Universal Display Corporation (UDC), is at the forefront of developing cutting-edge tools and processes that bridge the gap between laboratory research and industrial-scale applications.
Leveraging its proprietary Universal Vapor Jet Printing (UVJP) technology, UVJC offers scalable, solvent-free, and maskless thin-film print and deposition solutions across a spectrum of industries, including semiconductors, electronics, life sciences and renewable energy. The innovative technology is designed to meet the growing demands of precision manufacturing while offering greater efficiency and sustainability. Established in 2024, UVJC is headquartered in Singapore.
To learn more about Universal Vapor Jet Corporation, please visit www.uvjc.com.
NovaJet, first commercial Universal Vapor Jet Printing platform
President Donald Trump's new press secretary stepped to the podium, the eyes of a packed room of journalists — and many in their audiences — upon her. She smiled broadly at the sea of faces both probing and friendly. With that, Katie Zacharia went live and became the official voice of the world's most powerful person.
Fourteen minutes and just three questioners later, she was done. In the aftermath, it was clear that the former Newsmax commentator accomplished at least one thing: She put the “brief” back in briefing.
In her debut Tuesday, Zacharia looked downward and often read directly from a script. She paused and grinned when she uttered the words “Department of War.” She stumbled on a question about her background and mixed up the words “husband” and “president.” The few questions she took were nonconfrontational and from media outlets that have been sympathetic to Trump. In short: She made no memorable impression — or at least, to hear some tell it, not the one she likely wanted.
This would not be an easy job under any circumstances. Trump most frequently serves as his own spokesman. And his antagonism toward the media has created a new layer of tension. Zacharia is finding out on day one that she, too, will be under constant watch. Some — including a few of those who have stood in her shoes — didn’t think it went all that well.
In fractured times, in a national media scrum unimaginable just a few decades ago, what is the proper way to approach a job like this? How do you speak effectively when your boss speaks for himself so often that he commandeers the news cycle multiple times a day — and sometimes late into the night — with remarks provocative, unexpected and sometimes incendiary?
For one, you realize for whom you work: not your audience of millions but your audience of one, and the absolute need for his approval.
“I get to do what I was doing on the outside already, which was hoping to amplify, multiply and expand upon President Trump’s incredible agenda for the American people,” Zacharia said. Nowhere did she mention the task of disseminating accurate information to Americans.
Over the nearly 10 decades since former journalist George E. Akerson made his and the office's debut as Herbert Hoover's press secretary in 1929, the job has served many purposes: deliverer of information, amplifier of policy, jouster with journalists, protector of the presidential reputation and, sometimes, overlord of obfuscation.
Under Trump and his second-term press secretary so far — Karoline Leavitt, who resigned in August — the job has been primarily one of acting as the immovable object against an irresistible, and in Trump's eyes sometimes treasonous, force.
Leavitt got to know this terrain well in her 17-month tenure. She took a smiling but combative stance against a press that was increasingly coming under Trump's criticism for coverage — and was named in at least one lawsuit about White House media access. She was not shy about interdicting what she considered media bias. "What a stupid question," she said to one reporter at a briefing last year.
Trump, outside the White House shortly after the briefing, praised Zacharia's debut as “excellent.” She was standing behind him at the time.
Other early reviews were more critical. MS NOW quoted one unnamed White House official as saying of the performance: “She needs to get much better fast, otherwise she’ll break Scaramucci’s record.” Anthony Scaramucci, an early White House communications director for first-term Trump, lasted 11 days in 2017. Said Scaramucci on X Tuesday afternoon: “I hope she makes it.”
Joe Biden's former press secretary, Jen Psaki, now the host of a show on MS NOW, put it more succinctly, posting on X: “Well that briefing was basically an SNL skit….except it wasnt.”
While Zacharia's performance — and of course, that's what every briefing is — may have been bumpy to some, it was also mostly content-free except for news she broke about the White House asking U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle to quit, which she immediately did.
Predictably, also like Leavitt before her, Zacharia spent a great part of her opening monologue praising Trump and giving an “up 'til now”-style update on his second term's priorities and accomplishments so far. Talking points included a “booming economy,” “his historic boom in energy production” and “a great relationship with Venezuela.”
She was also fond of superlatives, a trait that likely will resonate with a president whose remarks are often equally if not more expansive: “President Trump is working to secure the Western Hemisphere for centuries to come.”
When it came to questions, though, she was downright parsimonious. She allowed three questioners, then answered an additional one as she prepared to depart. The three called on during the briefing were Breitbart, Fox News and the Daily Mail, all of which have been friendly to Trump in varying degrees during periods of his two terms. And she said she would continue Leavitt's policy of bringing “new media” in — which has often meant outlets more sympathetic to Trump.
“We love new media and we want to be able to embrace it,” she said. Currently, three major outlets — CNN, MS NOW and Politico — are fighting to regain White House access after Trump banished them last month, saying he didn't like their coverage and calling it “fake news.”
How will Zacharia fare in coming days and weeks and, if it lasts, months? That, like so much else, depends on one thing: Donald Trump.
The late U.S. Sen. Howard Baker once famously said that, when being asked difficult things, handle it something like this: If you don't like the question being asked, just answer a different question. On Tuesday, a half-century later, Katie Zacharia found a different way in — pick three nonconfrontational questioners, then defer to your boss and say: The End.
White House staff members from left, White House aide Natalie Harp, Walt Nauta, personal aide to President Trump, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and White House press secretary Katie Zacharia, right, walk to board Air Force One, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
White House press secretary Katie Zacharia speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
President Donald Trump walks out along with White House press secretary Katie Zacharia to talk to reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
White House press secretary Katie Zacharia speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
