December 2024

China-based Bengbu Zhongguang Optoelectronics Technology, in collaboration with researchers from the CNBM Glass New Materials Research Institute have developed China's first 8.6-Gen glass substrate product.

The reports from China suggest that the first substrate samples have been produced at Bengbu's production line, and the company is ready to start mass producing the substrates commercially.

OLEDWorks proudly announces that the Audi A5 and S5 vehicles are to incorporate its cutting-edge digital OLED 2.0 technology, powered by the Atala brand.

In the new A5 and S5, there will be 6 modules, each with about 60 red emitting OLED panels. The total number of panels is 364. The panels provide personalized lighting signatures and dynamic, adaptive communication on the road.

Inkjet printing developer Notion Systems announced a strategic partnership with the Fraunhofer IAP institute to co-develop EHD printing technologies for the display industry. The initial focus of this partnership is to develop new materials and optimizing printing processes for OLED and QLED printing.

EHD utilizes electric fields to precisely transfer inks or other liquids onto substrates. Standard inkjet printing is limited in the deposition resolution, but HED enables very high precision and very small droplet sizes. 

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) has inaugurated a new research center dedicated for the development of AMOLED technologies. The new AMOLED Research Centre (ARC) is a national centre of excellent that is funded by the Government's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), by the Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), and Tata Sons.

The goal of this new center is to help India's display manufacturing industry. It will focus on AMOLED displays for wearables, smartphones, and tablets. Researchers at the ARC will also engage in research into OLED TVs, OLED lighting and OPVs.

Here are some recent and popular OLED stories featured at OLED-Info, in case you missed it:

• LG starts offering its transparent Signature OLED T TV with a $60,000 price tag
• Apple reduces its iPad AMOLED orders as demand for its tablets is low
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• Does it make sense for LG Display and Samsung Display to merge?
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• Applied Materials launches an 8-Gen maskless OLED production technology
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• Visionox produced its first ViP AMOLED display
• The MicroLED Association publishes its first microLED industry roadmap document
• Single-layer TADF OLEDs outperform the best multi-layer device
• LG Display reveals its automotive display strategy and its latest OLED customers

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Last year Audi unveiled its upcoming 2024 Q6 e-tron car, with the 2nd-generation OLEDWorks digital lighting solution. Now OLEDWorks formally launched its Atala digital OLED 2.0 technology, which is now available for automotive producers and Tier-1 suppliers.

By digital OLED technology, OLEDWorks means that these are taillights in which each segment (there could be 10 to 128 segments in each module) is controlled individually, making it into a simple display system. The company says that digital OLED 2.0 delivers unparalleled functionality and performance. The second generation solution offers more panel options and higher level of integration and features.

LG announced that it is starting to ship its transparent wireless Signature OLED T TV with a $59,999 price tag. The TV can be ordered from LG directly or from Best Buy

LG's Signature OLED T is a 77" 4K wireless transparent OLED TV that can change from a transparent mode to a black-background mode (via a raised black contrast film) in which it operates just like a normal OLED TV. The OLED T is powered by LG's Alpha 11 AI processor, and uses LG's Zero Connect box which makes it almost completely wireless (except the power). 

Samsung Display announced today a strategic partnership with Dolby Laboratories, to offer SDC's automotive displays which are pre-tuned to deliver Dolby Vision to automotive makers. 

Samsungs says that by implementing a new streamlined evaluation and implementation process it will be able to offer best-in-class imaging experiences  for automotive displays. 

Poland-based OLED material developer Noctiluca announced that it has signed a joint development agreement (JDA) with a subsidiary of the world’s second-largest TV manufacturer and a leader in display technology from China, focused on industrializing printed OLED technologies. This is likely to be TCL CSoT's Juhua printing subsidiary. TCL CSoT recently started to produced inkjet printed OLEDs.

Noctiluca and TCL CSoT will work together to adopt Noctiluca's proprietary chemical compound into TCL's OLED displays. The company does not detail what kind of materials will be tested in this agreement. The company develops both TADF/HF OLED emitters and also EIL materials for blue OLED emission.

LG Display announced that it has developed and deployed a new AI system that will improve its OLED production process. The system collects and analyzes OLED process manufacturing data in real-time. When the system finds anomalies in the OLED manufacturing process, it can alert in real time, and even find solutions.

LG Display says that since the introduction of this new AI system, its ability to analyze process data has been enhanced, significantly improving both manufacturing speed and accuracy. The time required to analyze and improve the causes of quality anomalies has been reduced from an average of three weeks to two days.