C|Net reports that the iRiver Spinn will be released (in the UK) in August.
The Spinn has a large (3.2") AMOLED display, 480x272 pixels, which is the largest available OLED on the market, beside Sony's XEL-1. Price is not available yet.
Demonstrating an OLED TV just 0.3mm thick at the D: All Things Digital event, Stringer said: it’s a glass, we can produce this in plastic and you can wrap it around your arm, we’re not quite sure why you would want to. We’re looking for applications for the next generation of the plastic version but this will come out in a 27-inch version fairly soon. Within the next 12 months, we haven’t given a date.
Merck KGaA announced today that it is launching several new OLED materials, including a blue singlet emitter (SEB series) that features ultra deep blue color coordinates. Measured in solvent, this dopant shows a color as deep as CIE(x;y) 0.15/ 0.09 with a full width half maximum (FWHM) of only 54 nm.
Merck said that in a bottom emission OLED device, an external quantum efficiency (EQE) in excess of 5.6% and color coordinates of 0.15/ 0.10 can be achieved with this new material. The stable material performance at high driving current and high temperatures makes the material ideal for passive matrix based automotive and mobile display applications. In active matrix top emission devices, the material allows panel-makers to achieve a high NTSC color gamut while drastically reducing power consumption and increasing product lifetime.
Merck also has developed a new light blue dopant for two color white or monochrome OLED applications. At CIE(x;y) 0.14/0.27, this material shows outstanding efficiency (7% EQE and 12.5 cd/A @ 1000cd/m²) and excellent lifetime above 36000h at 1000cd/m² for a basic bottom emission device structure.
Panasonic's visual products and display devices business senior vice president and director, Masaaki Fujita, said that OLEDs will replace LCDs in the future. Plasma will still get developed, but LCDs will surely be replaced by OLED.
Masaaki says that Plasma has a better future than LCDs because of the self-illuminating nature (no need for backlight), and also because of its low manufacturing cost.
Dell's CEO is speaking to WSJ's Mossberg, and he hints about using Sony's OLED displays this year -
Mossberg: Former Dell CEO has said that R&D is a waste. That still true?
Dell: No. There's tens of billions of dollars spent in the industry and while we definitely see value here, we're also into leveraging the tech from other partners. For example, the 0.3mm OLED that Sony showed.
Mossberg: You going to use those?
Dell, teasingly, says "You'll see some great stuff from us this year...
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CDT, Sumitomo and Novaled plan to co-develop hybrid OLED devices combining both new polymer emitting layers and doped electron transport layers. It is expected that these hybrid devices will offer further improvements in power efficiency without additional manufacturing complexity. The parties have reached an agreement on how IP generated during the JDA will be handled. Further, Novaled will grant a license to CDT enabling CDT to add necessary Novaled device IP to its existing and future licenses. Each company will remain responsible to market its own materials resulting from this co-development.
CDT continues to focus its effort on supporting the PLED supply chain and is pleased to be involved in yet another joint development project which has the potential of bringing new materials and improved device performance to our licensees, says David Fyfe, CEO of CDT.
According to Digitimes, China-based OLED maker Visionox is setting up an OLED panel plant in Kunshan, Jiangsu, and will start mass production in October 2008.
UDC describes a new simplified WOLED architecture that represents an important milestone toward the achievement of cost-effective OLEDs for lighting applications. Offering a warm white color with CIE coordinates of (0.45, 0.46) and 30 lumens per Watt (with outcoupling), this WOLED device boasts an extremely long operating lifetime, exceeding 200,000 hours at 1,000 cd/m2, and may be suitable for a variety of entry lighting products.
Dr. D’Andrade will also report on a new white OLED with record-breaking power efficacy of 72 lumens per Watt. Both devices use transport and injection materials provided by Universal Display’s collaboration partner, LG Chem.
This work was funded, in part, by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) through its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Under the SBIR program and the Solid State Lighting Initiative, the DOE is working to accelerate advances in OLEDs as an energy-efficient, solid-state lighting technology. The DOE views OLEDs as a pivotal emerging technology that promises to fundamentally alter lighting in the future. Through the use of Universal Display’s PHOLED technology, WOLEDs have the potential to meet the DOE’s future performance targets, including a power efficiency of 150 lumens per Watt, in an exciting new thin form factor.
