AU Optronics are showing a new 14" OLED panel, with full HD resolution at 157 ppi. The brightness on an all-white image is 200cd/m2, the contrast is 100,000:1, the frequency is 120Hz and they say it's shows 72% NTSC color gamut.
AUO claims that this panel are ready for mass production. They are using an evaporation method with a metal stencil mask.
Samsung released a new video showing a flexible OLED prototype. The display on show is a 2.8" panel featuring 166 ppi. The whole panel is just 20 micrometer thick - and apparently it is shatterproof, as can be seen in this video:
Some interesting E Ink related news today:
Amazon announced that the Kindle DX will be released on June 10th. The DX has got a 9.7" 1200x824 (at 150 ppi) E Ink display, with 16 shades of gray. It costs 489$, you can pre-order now.
Amazon Kindle DXThe DX weights 535grams, and the size is 10.4" x 7.2" x 0.38". It's got 4GB of internal memory (around 3.3Gb of which are available to the user). The modem is a EVDO 1xRTT (Sprint 3G). It supports many formats, including PDF.
Prime View (PVI) announced that they will acquire E Ink for 215$. PVI is the largest ePaper display maker, it will be interesting to see how they integrate E Ink (which is more of an IP company).
Samsung Mobile Displays announced a new AMOLED panel, with WVGA (800x480) resolution at 300 PPI. SMD says that the new panel will be shipping in 2009.
SMD claims the new AMOLED has 4 times the clarity of their current displays and has a 40% increase in power efficiency (although it's not clear, they might mean 40% decrease in power consumption compared to an LCD panel...).
Amazon has launched a new, larger Kindle e-book reader yesterday: the Kindle DX. The display is a large 9.7" 1200x824 (at 150 ppi) E Ink, with 16 shades of gray. It will cost 489$, and it's available for pre-order.
Amazon Kindle DXThe older Kindle had a 6" display, and is available for 359$.
Can OLEDs compete against ePaper displays such as E Ink? I'm not sure. Those screens have better battery life, look more paper-like, and are great in direct sunlight. They are also much cheaper currently.
Amazon has officially announced the Kindle 2.0 reader. The display is a 6" diagonal E-Ink electronic paper display, 600 x 800 pixel resolution at 167 ppi, 16-level gray scale.
The whole device weights just 290g (less than a normal paperback, they say), and it's extremly thin - just over 0.3-inch. More info at amazon.com, of course.
Universal Display Corporation today announced the successful development and delivery of a novel OLED display prototype to the U.S. Army. The prototype demonstrates the world’s first flexible OLED display that incorporates both visible green emission for daytime operation and infrared (IR) emission for use in dark environments.
Developed through a two-phase Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program with the U.S. Army, this initial prototype was designed to demonstrate capabilities that would enable soldiers in the field to view one display in two modes. Using Universal Display's high-efficiency PHOLED technology, the OLED display prototype provides green-color emission for daytime operation, and can be switched to operate in an IR-emission mode, that can only be detected through specialized night-vision goggles, for covert operations. By integrating this onto a flexible substrate, the Company has achieved a design suitable for portable, rugged and conformable use both day and night in the field.
The 160 ppi three inch full color display incorporates CDT's PLED technology and was produced by CDT using a Litrex Gen 2 inkjet printer on amorphous Si TFT substrates provided by Casio. The company stated that since starting the project in fall of 2006, CDT has been able to demonstrate that it can achieve the accuracy required to produce the displays over 14-inch substrates.
The achievement of printing 160 ppi high resolution is the combination of Casio backplane design, Litrex printer droplet accuracy, CDT's know-how on ink formulation, and optimized print strategy.
CDT has entered new geographical territory with the sale of inkjet printing equipment to the Genius Institute of Technology in Brazil. The Institute will use the equipment to develop its expertise in inkjet printing for polymer organic light emitting diode (PLED) technology.
The Litrex 70 printer is capable of printing on substrates up to 200 mm square at up to 120 pixels per inch, and is ideal for research and development of PLED materials and devices.
Cambridge Display Technology and Litrex Corporation are paving the way for the production of a new generation of high resolution polymer organic light emitting displays (PLED, or P-OLED) through the development of an inkjet printing solution capable of producing PLED displays at up to 200 pixels per inch (ppi).
Cambridge Display Technology announces the sale of a sophisticated Eclipse display test system to Merck OLED Materials GmbH, based in Frankfurt, Germany. The equipment will be used to enhance productivity in the development and evaluation of materials for organic light emitting diode displays. The Eclipse system to be supplied to Merck consists of 192 digital source-measure channels and associated hardware and software, some of which has been customized for Merck's particular requirements.
