September 2006

Dr Peter Harrop Chairman of IDTechEx gives us a roadmap for OLED lighting:

Little progress is expected in improving the efficiency of incandescent or fluorescent lighting. They are yesterday’s products. As we noted, OLED lighting is already much more efficient than incandescent lighting and it will surpass fluorescent in 2008. Markets will open up for versions on flexible substrates in particular, because installation cost is so low and the format is so versatile and appealing. However, capital cost of long life white versions below that of conventional lights will not be on offer in mass production until around 2016 unless further major breakthroughs are made. In late 2006, OSRAM forecasted that the first major sales of OLED signage will be in 2008, though not with all the intended attributes.

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LG.Philips LCD said yesterday that it has developed the world’s slimmest LCD panel for mobile phones at 1.3 millimeters thick, which it claims to be thinner than Samsung’s OLED. A few hours later, Samsung SDI refuted the claim in a press release, saying it already possesses 0.8-millimeter technology for OLED.

Samsung SDI, the global rival of LG.Philips in the small-size display market, played down the technology, saying its OLED products are much superior in quality than LG.Philips’ LCD panels.

Luminary micro releases a new evaluation kit for their ARM processor (Stellaris LM3S811), and the board includes a small (96x16, single color) OLED display.

The boards includes a 50 MHz Stellaris LM3S811 ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontroller, with 64K flash, 8K SRAM, analog comparator, 5 channels of 10-bit ADC at 500K samples per second, 6 motion control unit PWM generators, 2 UARTs, SSI, I2C, GPIOs, internal temperature sensor, watchdog timer, 4 general purpose timers, on-chip low dropout voltage regulator, and on-chip brown-out reset and power-on reset functions.

AMLCDs dominate shipment share by technology with a-Si at 35.6% and p-Si at 18.4%. STN has a strong total share of 41.3%, yet has been falling Q/Q.  HTPS and LCOS are competing in electronic viewfinder market, where results were mixed. OLED displays are still in their infancy with PMOLEDs having a 3.5% share and growing, while AMOLED display makers struggle with yields.

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Universal Display Corporation today announced significant advances in the development of P(2)OLEDs printable, phosphorescent OLEDs as part of an ongoing joint development program with Seiko Epson Corporation. The demonstration of P(2)OLED materials that possess the high-efficiency of Universal Display's PHOLED phosphorescent technology, as well as ink-jet printing potential, is an important step toward the realization of cost-effective, large-area OLED displays. OLED displays are currently used in cell phones, MP3 players and PDAs, and are widely recognized as a strong candidate for use in the next generation of flat screen televisions.

After working together for less than two years, Universal Display is reporting key achievements in the development of a P(2)OLED system based on solution-processable, small-molecule PHOLED materials. These results include significant lifetime and efficiency advances for red and green color emitters.

MicroEmissive Displays has announced that it has raised over 5 million GBP (over $9 million), and has revealed its plans for a volume manufacturing facility for its polymer light emitting diode (PLED) microdisplay products.

The manufacturing project has been underway for some time, and the plant is expected to be fully online in 2007.

According to a newly released report from NanoMarkets, the market for printable electronics (PE) will grow from $354 million in revenues in 2007 to $12.1 billion in 2011. The firm will host a teleconference on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at 11:00 AM EST to present some of the reports’ findings.

Materials used in printable electronics will grow from a market of $76 million in 2007 to over $2.78 billion in 2011. The report notes, in particular, that there is a growing interest in developing inks using small molecule OLED materials. If this proves practical it will open up the entire OLED display market already worth hundreds of millions of dollars to printing technology.

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One Stop Displays has developed the first 20 character by 4 line large molecule PLED module. This innovative design is the largest character PLED offered in the industry, and features an industry standard LCD-compatible control interface (Samsung KS0066 and Hitachi HD44780 4-bit and 8-bit mode compatible).

The OSD2004M01 design is mechanically equivalent to standard LCD based 20x4 character display modules. It's mounting points and data interface locations allow easy integration into existing designs. It requires only a single power supply and will operate on logic voltages from 2.8V to 5.0V. The PLED character display module is efficient and draws less current than an equivalent array backlit LCD display.

The report shows shipments according to screen type, including PMOLED and AMOLED displays.
The report shows growth in PMOLED display shipments to mobile phones (reaching 0.3% in Q206).

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