OLED display modules - Page 5

AU Optronics is focused on OLEDs for the wearable market, and is already producing 1.63" panels. AUO is also developing 1.4" and 1.3" circular AMOLEDs, and today the company demonstrated three OLEDs for the wearable market, including a new 1.5" square AMOLED (which you can see below, together with the 1.4" circular and the 1.63" square one).

AUO is also producing 4.3", 5" and 5.5" AMOLED displays for mobile phones. Please contact us if you need help with finding a supplier for these new AMOLED displays.

AU Optronics demonstrated a new 1.3" Full-circle plastic-based flexible AMOLED panel. The panel features a resolution of 320x320 (257 PPI) and a brightness of 320 cd/m2. The whole panel is less than 0.25 mm thick.

It's not clear how close is this panel for commercialization. AUO recently shifted its focus to wearable OLEDs, and has launched a circular 1.4" glass-based AMOLED display.

Last month China's Everdisplay announced it is developing a 8" AMOLED display for the automotive market, and now the company unveiled first prototypes at the CES Asia trade show.

The 8" display features Full-HD resolution, 2 ms response time and a contrast ratio of over 100,000:1. The display operates in a wide temperature range (-40 to 85 Celsius).

According to our information Taiwan's AU Optronics started to mass produce 5.46" Full-HD AMOLED panels, aimed for smartphone applications. AUO is already producing 1.63", 4.3" and 5" AMOLED displays. AUO is also developing a 1.4" circular AMOLED display.

AUO 5.7-inch WQHD AMOLED prototype

It's great to see AU Optronics stepping up its AMOLED involvement, even though the company's current production capacity at its AFPD Gen-4.5 LTPS fab in Singapore is quite limited.

Taiwan's AU Optronics developed a new 1.4" circular AMOLED display, aimed for smart watches. AUO did not disclose the resolution of this display. AUO will be the second circular OLED maker - LG Display is currently producing 1.3" (320x320) circular plastic based AMOLED displays, used in their G Watch R smartphone.

AUO has been struggling with AMOLED production for years, but finally in August 2014 the company started mass production. The company currently offers four panels. Please contact us if you want to find a supplier for these OLEDs:

AUO announced that they developed a new 5.7" WQHD (2560x1440, 513 PPI) AMOLED panel. The panel is ultra slim at 0.57 mm and it uses special driver design to increase touch sensitivity and as a result can support 10 touch points.

AUO says that this is the world's highest resolution AMOLED. Actually we know that Sharp, and SEL developed a 13.3" 8K CAAC-OS OLED that achieves 664 PPI - but this one hasn't been unveiled yet (it will be shown at SID 2014 in a couple of months). In addition Samsung Display announced a while back that they are developing a 5.2" WQHD panel which will have a pixel density of 560 PPI. Reportedly SDC is also planning to make a UHD panel that will have a PPI of 860 (!).

OSD Displays developed a new high brightness PMOLED targeting the increasing market demand for wearable devices. The new OLED features a luminance of 1,000 nits - which is 10 times brighter than OSD's average OLED module. Such a high brightness OLED offers unparalleled clarity in direct sunlight.

The new OLED has a resolution of 96x16 and a viewing area of 0.78 inches diagonally. OSD says they developed a new structure and used new organic materials in order to achieve such high brightness.

OSD Displays now offers transparent PMOLED panels. The company offers either small monochrome dot-matrix displays (0.56" - 1.54" active area) with a transmittance of 70% or segmented displays which are larger (up to 3") and with a transmittance of 45%.

The company currently offers only custom panels (i.e. with a setup cost) and later on they will offer standard panels as well.

eMagin officially announced their XGA OLED microdisplay for camera EVF (and other near-to-eye applications). The XGA096 OLED-XL is the company's smallest microdisplay ever (at 0.48" diagonal) and it features a 9.6 micro pixel design. it Actually has a resolution of 1036x780, or 12 extra rows and columns beyond XGA for optical alignment or extended image area. eMagin says they are already taking orders for samples of this new microdisplay.

We have heard a lot about this camera XGA EVF, and it's good to finally see a real product. During their latest conference call, eMagin reported that they missed their first EVF opportunity with a camera maker for an external EVF because they didn't have enough time to complete the module design. They hope to win the internal EVF contract and if so shipments wil begin in late 2013 or early 2014.

We just got word that OSD Displays is set to release three new AMOLED panels by Q1 2014. Since CMEL stopped their AMOLED production in 2009, it's been very difficult to buy AMOLED displays for low-volume products. The only AMOLED suppliers (Samsung, Sony and LGD) do not offer their panels for these kinds of projects (they only target in-house products and mass-volume ones such as mobile phones or digital cameras).

An Old OSD AMOLED panel

We do not have any information on OSD's upcoming AMOLEDs yet - not the technical details and not who produces those panels (possible candidates include Innolux, Visionox, AU Optronics and RiTDisplay). Hopefully we'll know more soon.