There's a new OLED-Info index available - OLED projects. There are a few current (and old...) OLED projects, mostly involved in OLED lighting, and interestingly, all in the EU.
If you know of any more projects, that we have missed, please let us know.
Click here for the new OLED projects index
Thanks to Stefan from OLED100.eu for suggesting this new feature!
R Manikandan, LG's Senior GMâBusiness Solutions stated that "OLED technology is going to be adopted widely. OLED offers various benefits in terms of sharper picture, better contrast ratio and ultra lower power consumption."
Just last month we heard that LG are going to increase R&D investment, and focus on several new technologies, including OLEDs.
OSD is releasing a new 5.5" 256-64 PMOLED display - which is a monochrome green graycale panel (16 levels of grayscale).
OSD 5664ASGGF01The display features the Solomon Systech driver IC that supports 8-bit 6800/8080 Parallel or 3-/4-wire SPI data interface. Overall panel size is 146.0mm(H) x 45.0mm(V) x1.6mm(D). Viewing area is 135.65mm(H) x 33.89mm(V) mm. The OSD Displays OLED panel offers 120cd/m2 typical brithness, 160 degrees vieweing angle) and high contrast ratio (>2000:1), over a wide temperature range from -30C to +70C with less than 500mW typical power consumption.
PETEC (UK's Printed Electronic center) got a 3M$ investment from the EU. Petec officially opened a few weeks ago, offering several production lines including an OLED lighting one.
PETEC will use the money to install new advanced equipment, in their large-area coating line.
A research group from the Kanazawa
Institute of Technology in Japan succeeded in making an green phospor-based OLED achieving a very high
light-emitting efficiency of 210lm/W (56.9% more efficient than existing OLEDs).
The OLED is a bottom-emission type on a 0.7mm-thick glass plate.
The material for the device's light-emitting layer is a host material called "CBP" added with an iridium complex, "Ir(ppy)3." Its light emission peak lies in the range of wavelengths between 500 and 550nm, which corresponds to green color.
When emitting light at a luminance of 10cd/m2, it has a
light-emitting efficiency of 210lm/W and a light-extraction efficiency
of 56.9%. On the other hand, when emitting light without the
high-refractive glass plate, its light-emitting efficiency is only
94.3lm/W. This means the glass plate boosted the light-extraction
efficiency by 2.3 times.
Toshiba announced today that it bought Panasonic's stake in TMDisplay, for 20.3M$. TMDisplay is expected to report a loss of 300M$, on sales of 2.7B$ in 2008.
Toshiba will change the name from Toshiba-Matsushita displays to Toshiba Mobile displays (still TMDisplay...). It will also focus on OLED displays.
Earlier in 2008, TMDisplay said they will spend 140M$ on new production lines for AMOLEDs, making 1M 2.5" panels a month. TMDisplay are working on high-efficiency and lifetime panels.
eMagin, makers of OLED microdisplays, reported financial results for 2008 Q4.Revenus were 5.3M$ - a record for eMagin. They also retired all of its long term debt in December, 2008.
eMagin is improving their yield, and have achieved positive EBITDA.
eMagin has received notification of funding for more than $8 million for contract R&D programs to be executed through 2010. The programs assist in the development of power efficient microdisplays for night vision and for greater than HDTV resolution displays for training and simulation.
Here's a preview of Samsung's M7600 Beat DJ phone for wannabe DJs. The M7600 has a 2.8" WQVGA AMOLED display and special music controls and audio chips.
