eMagin announced that preliminary revenue for Q4 2013 was about $6.1 million. That's about $2 million less than expected. This ends a very challenging year for the OLED microdisplay maker. Looking forward, the company wants to strengthen their manufacturing processes and reach "acceptable" yield levels, and expects to return to revenue growth in 2014.

eMagin says that demand for their microdisplays remains strong, but there was a "shortfall in anticipated product revenue" for the quarter, resulting from equipment downtime, low yield and lower average sales prices. Contract revenue in the period is still low due to fewer government R&D contracts as a result of the U.S. government sequestration.

In May 2013, the US DOE granted a $225,000 project to Universal Display and IDD Aerospace to develop a low-energy shelf phosphorescent OLED light targeted at aircraft interiors. A few days ago, the two companies exhibited a prototype panel at the DOE's SSL R&D Workshop.

The OLED prototype shown at the workshop is a shelf utility panel that is very slim and energy efficient. The two companies believe that the data generated by developing this shelf utility light may be applied to larger-scale OLED lighting aircraft projects, including cabin applications for interior furniture, galley, interior structure enhancements, as well as other potential adoptions in cabin accent, task, ceiling and sidewall lighting, and sign backlighting.

Samsung announced the unpacked 2014 episode 1 event, to take place on February 24th at the Convention center in Barcelona (during the Mobile World Congress). The invitation clearly says UNPACKED 5, which means Samsung is very likely to unveil their new flagship phone, the Galaxy S5.

Just a few days ago Samsung Display confirmed it is developing a 5.2" WQHD (2560x1440, 560 PPI) AMOLED display, and it's highly likely that the GS5 will adopt this display. It's also likely that following the GS5, Samsung will release more variants (for example an "active" model, a "zoom" model, etc). These may adopt different displays, perhaps LCD ones.

The OLED Association reports that OSRAM developed a new 70 lm/W OLED lighting panel that feature 3,000 cd/m² luminance. This panel will be released in 2014.

According to the report, Osram wants to reach 110 lm/W by 2016 and 125 lm/W by 2018. At that point (in 2018) OLEDs will be competitive with LEDs.

According to the OLED association, Lumiotec launched a new OLED lighting panel last week. The Lumiotec P09 is a 145x145 mm panel that features 45 lm/W and 4,000 cd/m² maximum luminance. Lumiotec managed to increase the lifetime to 40,00 hours (LT70 at 3,000 cd/m²). The color temperature is 4000K and the CRI is 90.

Lumiotec will start producing the P09 panels and release them in Japan in the first half of 2014.