PMOLED (Passive Matrix OLED): introduction and basics - Page 21

One Stop Displays announced a new 16x2 character PLED display that measures only 5mm thick. The PMOLED OSD1602-3 offers high brightness, high contrast (over 200:1), and extreme viewing angles that support low light conditions.

Pricing on the OSD1602-3 starts at $12 USD for sample quantities and $10.00 or less for 1k and up, contact OSD for volume quotations.

BenQ Siemens has launched its latest music phone equipped with its 'Q-Fi' music system: a ten-band equaliser hooked up to a pair of built-in 3D surround-sound speakers, fed by the company's own music playback app and activated with dedicated controls.

The EF71 sports a brushed aluminium clamshell casing. There's a 2.2in, 176 x 220, 262,144-colour main display and a white, 128 x 64 OLED screen used when the case is closed. The phone has a two-megapixel camera with 9x digital zoom which can also be used as a webcam when the phone's hooked up to a PC's USB port. The EF71's battery can also be charged this way. Bluetooth connectivity is part of the package too.

Art Lebedev, a well-known design studio in Russia and also the developer of the innovative Optimus keyboards, has quietly adjusted the shipment date for its Optimus mini three keyboard, which was set to be released commercially in mid-May, 2006, but will be actually launched in mid-June, 2006.

Optimus mini three keyboard is a pad with three keys each of which incorporates 20mm x 20mm small PMOLED (organic light-emitting diodes) screens with 96x96 pixels resolution that can display different information, depending on the application. The main advantage the Optimus mini three has is that it can be reprogrammed to perform certain actions depending on the launched software using special configuration utility and reflect the changes in the actions to be performed on the OLED screens.

Anders Electronics has added a 2.7" PMOLED module to its range of low-profile, low-power video-capable displays, presenting an easy upgrade path from LCD modules that are thicker and heavier and also require a backlight. A quick start guide and rapid evaluation hardware are also available from Anders Electronics, for fast and easy system-level integration of OLEDs in a wide range of sizes and resolutions including the new 2.7in module. The new Osram Pictiva 2.7" OLEDs are 128 columns x 64 rows resolution, enabling clear display of text or graphic images.

Yellow or green versions are available, each having 4bit grey-scale colour depth. Offering the established benefits of OLED technology, the new modules have 180 degree viewing angle and 2000:1 contrast ratio for excellent readability in a wide range of situations in audio products, industrial equipment or medical instruments. The latest 2.7" displays are only 3.4mm thick, for easy mounting in very thin panels, and consume 0.05mW in sleep mode.

MagnaChip today announced the launch of its PMOLED QCIF+ two-chip solution, the HM16EPS7201 chip and the HM16EPC7101 chip.

These chips are designed for the main display on mobile devices and specifically the MP3 display market. They are the first chips to support QCIF+ resolution.

These chips offer one of the highest resolutions available in PMOLED technology. The HM16EPS7201 chip can support 220RGB (column line), while the HM16EPC7101 chip supports 176 (Row line). Notable MP3, mobile and panel companies are currently evaluating these unique product offerings.

These products are scheduled to go into mass production in the first half of 2006. The HM16EPS7201 chip is produced at MagnaChip's F5 located in Cheongju and the HM16EPC7101 at MagnaChip's F3 in Gumi.

This year at FPD International 2005, Chi Mei Electroluminescence (CMEL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO), is presenting OLED panels including a 0.95-inch passive matrix PM (passive-matrix) OLED panel and a 1.02-inch passive matrix PMOLED panels.

CMEL claims it is setting up the world’s largest OLED vapor deposition process facility with the substrates being sized at 620mmª375mm, 1.3 times larger than current substrates (470mmª370mm). The facility is scheduled to enter volume production in the second quarter of 2006, according to CMEL general manager, Chen Zhe Nian (transliterated from Chinese).

NEC has announced a thin (11.9mm) clamshell phone called the L1 (it is 2 mm thinner than Motorola's RAZR). The main display is a 176x220 LCD, and the external one is a blue PMOLED panel. Other features include tri-band GSM/GPRS, 1.3mp camera and 32MB of memory.

NEC L1

Sony announced a new MP3 player, the Walkman 'Bean'. This flash-based player (512MB or 1 GB) features a pop-up USB jack, a single-line PMOLED display and 50 hours of play time.

The Sony Walkman Bean is available in the following colors: Tropical Ice (Blue), Cotton Candy (Pink), Licorice (Black) and Coconut (White).

Olympus announced 3 new flash based MP3 players, with OLED panels.

MR-F10: A light weight MP3 player, with a 65K color OLED display.

MR-F20: Another player with a 65K color OLED display

MR-F30: A 260K color OLED, with wide viewing angle and clear picture quality. This player includes a photo (JPEG) viewer.

Eastman Kodak says that Fuji Electric Holdings Japan licensed Kodak's OLED technology, and is applying its license toward development of its own color conversion matrix (CCM) full-color OLED display technology with the intention of offering flat PMOLED displays.

Fuji Electric's CCM technology uses a production technique the company calls the "metal mask-less organic film deposition method," for dramatic improvement in manufacturing yield rate, and greater reliability in superior full-color PMOLED.