There are rumors that Samsung are working on a new WVGA super-AMOLED LiMo phone for Vodafone, to be called the i8330 H2. It will come pre-loaded with Vadafone's 360 services and feature HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, 8mp camera, HD video recording and a 1Ghz processor.
Samsung i8330 H2
Back in 2009, Samsung introduced the 360 H1 phone for Vodafone.
Sony is showing off a new 4.1" rollable OLED display at SID 2010. The new display has a 423x240 resolution (121ppi) with 16.8 million colors and a 1000:1 contrast ratio. It's only 80 um thick...
Sony has developed an organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) that use a peri-Xanthenoxanthene (PXX) derivative, and then integrated the OLED on the substrate.
Cymber says they are beginning to roll out lasers for OLED manufacturing, through their TCZ display division. They have already installed their first system in an unnamed customer in South Korea (probably Samsung Mobile Display. If all goes as planned, consumers could see the first OLED displays made with TCZ tools in time for Christmas), and it plans to deliver the 2nd one in another unnamed customer in China by the end of October.
One of the key innovations underlying TCZ’s OLED technology is a process that creates a uniform grid of transistors on the semiconducting material that forms a thin-film base layer on a screen’s backplane, or control layer. Each transistor in the grid controls a light-emitting diode, and each LED illuminates a single pixel. Another key innovation involves depositing one of three proprietary organic compounds precisely atop each LED to make a red, green, or blue pixel.
Samsung Mobile DIsplays' CTO, Sang-Soo Kim kim says that OLED displays will account for the vast majority of mobile displays and become mainstream for TVs within the next five years. If the technological hurdles are overcome, AMOLED could become the mainstream display technology for TVs by 2015. He also says that the "market could support" 1 billion mobile AMOLED displays by the same year.
Samsung has recently committed $2.2 billion to build a new Gen 5.5 AMOLED plant, that will go online in 2012.
Universal Display has announced a new light-blue phosphorescent OLED emitter system, suitable for both display and lighting applications. Today they are giving us more information about the new material.
Universal Display’s new light-blue emitter system offers CIE coordinates of (0.17, 0.37) and a peak wavelength of 472 nm. It also provides a luminous efficiency of > 45 candelas per Ampere, corresponding to > 20% external quantum efficiency at 1,000 candelas per square meter (cd/m2). Under accelerated test conditions, this new emitter system demonstrates an operating lifetime of approximately 9,000 hours, to 50% of an initial luminance of 1,000 cd/m2. These performance gains are significant, representing a 30% increase in luminous efficiency and an almost 100% increase in operating lifetime, as compared to Universal Display’s earlier-generation light-blue PHOLED emitter system.
Canon has officially abandoned the SED TV technology - they just couldn't bring the cost down to make this a viable alternative to LCD TVs. Canon still plans to use SED panels for industrial and medical displays (high margin businesses).
Samsung is demonstrating a new 19" transparent AMOLED displays (with a 30% transparency), which they say is the world's largest.
Samsung are really into transparency, and may release a transparent AMOLED laptop soon.
Sumitomo Chemical has developed a new 6.5" AMOLED panel. It's a polymer-based OLED made by printing technology, sealed by a metal plate. It was made by Sumitomo's "Device Development Center," which was established in August 2009.
