Korea's Research Institute of Standard and Science (KRISS) revealed a new technology that measures the level of moisture in an OLED display during the inspection process. Measuring the moisture is critical for OLED production.

KRISS' new moisture testing technology is based on transmitting the radioactive isotope tritium with a water molecule to a flexible display. KRISS claims that it can measure accurately up to 1/1million g/m2.

OSD Displays announced a new 1.5" PMOLED display that has a resistive 4-wire touch panel. The full-color display offer 128x128 resolution and is under 3mm thick (including the touch panel).

OSD says that the new panel is great for switches and controls - due to its small size (it can fit in a 1U rack system). The panel offers several interfaces: 3/4 wire SPI, 8/16 bit CPU in both 6800 and 8080 type designs.

Last week we reported that Samsung sold over 9.3 million Galaxy S phones, and they're on the way to achieve 10 million in sales. Today Samsung officially announced that the phone sales indeed reached 10 million units.

You can see in the map above that sales reached 2 million in Korea, 4 million in North America and 2.5 million in Europe. By the way - I'm now a proud owner of a Galaxy-S myself... so I contributed a bit there.

Sony published an interesting interview with their display unit team about rollable OLED displays. Back in May (during SID 2010) Sony unveiled a new 4.1" rollable OLED display (with 423x240 resolution at 121ppi, 16.8 million colors - and the whole thing is just 80um thick). In the interview, Dr. Kazumasa Nomoto reveals that Sony's end target is a rollable large-screen OLED TV: "The time will come when the very idea that an enormous black box (TV) was ever placed in rooms will seem strange."

In the interview, the team discusses the new technologies that Sony created for this new display. First was a new Organic TFT based on a new material: a peri-
Xanthenoxanthene (PXX) derivative (this took Sony 5 years to develop!). Sony also developed a flexible gate driver circuit. Finally, an insulating layer for the O-TFT and OLED materials using flexible organic materials. Those three technologies enabled sony to create a rollable video display.