February 2005

Jens of sweden MP-120 Jens of Sweden (that's the name of the company) has waged a direct war against Apple's iPod Shuffle with its new MP-120 flash-based MP3 player, that it claims is "better, cooler and cheaper" and is out to "exterminate" the iPod. Somehow I think the last part of their claims is going to get more people interested than one.
The player has 1 GB of space, a nice departure from the run of the mill Asian 128 MB and 256 MB players we've been getting tired of seeing so far. It has a bright 128 x 64 pixel OLED screen to show the visualizer.

OSDC167-2I new PM-OLED panel One Stop Displays is proud to promote a new full color PM-OLED available for mass production interest. The OSDC167-2I is the latest 128x128 resolution 1.67 diagonal color OLED display. The display requires only 1.87mm of system depth. The display offers a high quality 65k color depth, and lightning fast response at all temperatures. Despite its ultra-thin design, the display offers better uniformity that any other technology available with a spectacular 80 nits of emitted intensity.

The government has already started up a €100 million ($130 million) initiative to support research and production of OLED's. Firms like Merck, Osram, Philips and Samsung have pledged to invest over €500 million.

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CEO and President, Khaled R. Khuda, announced today that One Stop Displays is entering a new strategic alliance with Samsung SDI for passive-matrix OLED displays. Under the agreement, OSD will compliment existing support and sales services for North American customers. Samsung offers one of the largest varieties in OLED displays, including a selection of 12 standard designs. Samsung is also an innovative source for OLED patents, research, and manufacturing. OSD is proud to have a relationship with a manufacturing leader in the OLED industry, and feels that their customers will greatly benefit from the quality and technology provided. Samsung has dedicated commitment to advance their offerings and long-term engagement with OLED technology. Technology advancement in color quality, color depth, resolution, size, and reliability will all be found in the new product offering.

OLED-Info.com has a new design. Please tell us what you think...
The new design was done by B & W studios - a web design & multimedia studio, based in Ramat-Gan, Israel.

The recently discovered carbon nanomaterial is an integral part of OLED displays created by U of T Professor Zhenghong Lu and patented by the University of Toronto Innovations Foundation.

Prof. Lu's nanotechnology innovation, U of T says, will revolutionize OLED performance, including the delivery of 50 to 100 per cent more power efficiency, lower drive voltage and power consumption, improved lifetime and stability and better colour.

Toppan Printing and Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) have just announced the commencement of Phase Two of their joint programme to explore alternative printing processes for the fabrication of displays based on PLED technology.

Phase One, completed at the end of 2004, concentrated on proving the feasibility of using a roll printing process to deposit light emitting polymer materials onto a glass substrate.

Signaling the first commercial acceptance surrounding its barrier technology, Vitex Systems Inc., today announced it has received its inaugural order -- worth more than $2 million from a major Japanese corporation.

The flagship order is for one of the company's Guardian deposition systems and its proprietary Barix(TM) thin-film barrier coating solution, both of which will be used by the Japanese company for research and development on next-generation OLED displays and materials.

Vitex's Barix thin-film encapsulation, applied with its Guardian tool, enables the display manufacturer to deposit, in-situ, a planarizing Barix coating directly on top of the OLED material on the glass substrate thereby, eliminating the requirement for a sealed metal can or glass cavity lid with internal desiccant. This provides a much thinner, lighter and more robust display at a reduced manufacturing cost. Vitex's Guardian tool combines an in-line vacuum polymer deposition chamber and a ceramic deposition chamber that can be customized to interface with essentially any manufacturing equipment used to produce OLED displays, such as cluster tools and in-line deposition systems.

Orion Electric Co., South Korea's third-largest display maker, said Tuesday it has concluded a contract for merger and acquisition with the American fund Matlin Patterson. "The sale price amounts to 120 billion won (US$117.24 million)".
Matlin Patterson, a global private equity fund, will take charge of the firm's OLED section, while another fund, in which Matlin Patterson invested, will run the display section, according to the company.
"They will invest a large amount of money to continue the development of the display section, and notably the OLED section will be developed into a global business," it added.
Orion Electric is manufacturing full color OLED panels and modules for 1-inch sub displays, 2-inch main displays for mobile phones and 3.5-inch displays for PDAs.

The Xuke AV-700 features a 1.2 inch color OLED Display with 260,000 colors. The small media player supports MP4, DivX and AVI video formats. Ogg and MP3 and WMA-DRM music file formats are also supported. The player features USB 2.0, FM Tuner, SRS-Wow and 3D sound.