LG Display to buy OLED materials from Idemitsu Kosan
LG Display says they have signed an agreement with Japan's Idemitsu Kosan for OLED materials. LG sees OLEDs growing rapidly, and they want a stable source for materials.
Idemitsu Kosan are also working with Sony and UDC on OLED display materials.
LG display plans to start making larger panels towards the end of 2009, and to sell OLED TVs in December 2009 or January 2010 in Korea. They expect the market to reach over 3B$ in 2010 (citing DisplaySearch numbers).
Seiko Epson sees 37" (and larger) inkjet-printed OLED TVs in 2012
Last month Seiko Epson has unveiled a new inkjet-printing technology for OLEDs, suitable for large sized panels. We have talked to Satoru Miyashita, General Manager of Seiko Epson's Core Technology Development Center about this new technology and their plans for OLED production.
Q: You have shown a new ink-jet based OLED technology. You say it will enable 37" or larger HD-OLED TVs. Do you have any plans to actually make such TVs? When do you think products can be made with this new tech?
Epson is currently considering a variety of options regarding the commercialization of this technology, but at this point no specific announcements have been made about plans. We see 2012 as being the year that 37"+ OLED TVs will be launched by various makers, and 2015 as the year that sales will really take off for this market.
Espon 14-inch Inkjet processed OLEDInterview with LG Display's OLED sales and marketing VP
LG Display is one of the leaders in OLEDs, but they have recently sent some mixed messages - great OLED TV prototypes, promises of new OLED TV products soon, no AMOLED phones plans... Mr Won Kim, Vice President of OLED Sales and Marketing from LG Display has agreed to answer a few questions we had, and set things straight.
Mr Won Kim has a BA in business management from Korea University, and has been working for LG since 1984. Now he's VP of OLED sales and marketing (since 2005).
Q: What kind of OLED products are LG currently selling? What is your current capacity for OLED production?
Mobile phone only. Current capacity is 7k sheets(365 x 460) per month, which is equivalent to 200k pcs of 3" size.
UDC and LG give more info on the 4" flexible OLED bracelet
UDC and LG has been showing a wrist-worn flexible OLED prototype for a long time now. They have released some new information on the display today.
The display is 4", supporting 320x240 pixels at 100ppi. The luminance is 100cd/m2, contrast 1,000:1. The whole panel is 0.3mm thick, with a steel plate as substrate, using amorphous Si TFT. It weights 8g.
Universal Display and Samsung Present Advances in Highly Efficient, Long Lifetime Green PH-OLEDs
Universal Display and Samsung Mobile Displays present advances in green Phosphorescent OLEDs at SID. This new material will be used in both hand-held devices and OLED TVs, extending lifetime and efficiency. UDC's red materials are already used in Samsung's AMOLED displays, and it's likely that we'll see Samsung use their green materials as well.
The companies showed a highly-efficient, green
UniversalPHOLED material that has been used in a top-emission PHOLED
device architecture. Using this approach, they achieved two
milestones. A green PHOLED with NTSC color at CIE(0.20, 0.73), high
luminous efficiency of 110 candelas per Ampere (cd/A), and a low voltage
of 3.6 V at 3,000 candelas per square meter (cd/m2) was
achieved.
A second device structure using this green PHOLED material
system also achieved an ultra-high luminous efficiency of 160 cd/A along
with CIE(0.28, 0.69) and low voltage of 3.8 V at 3,000 cd/m2.
These compare to a standard bottom-emission device with CIE(0.33, 0.62)
and 52 cd/A using this same green PHOLED material system. Replacing the
green fluorescent OLED material typically used today in an AMOLED with
this new green PHOLED can result in a significant 37% power savings.
The operational lifetime for this green PHOLED material system is also
very good. A bottom-emission device using this material system offers >
300,000 hours to 50% (extrapolated) and 15,000 hours to 90% of the
initial luminance of 1000 cd/m2 (defined as LT90). With these
top-emission devices, the LT90 lifetime is 28,000 hours and 6,400 hours,
respectively, for the 110 cd/A and 160 cd/A devices.
CBS: TV of the future by UDC
A short clip by CBS showing the 'TV of the future' - OLEDs. Some nice new footage of OLED displays and TVs, flexible and transparent OLEDs, as well as an interview with Janice Mahone from Universal Display.
FDC and UDC achieve a breakthrough in flexible OLEDs
Universal Display and the Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University has announced a significant milestone towards a manufacturable flexible OLEDs. The new display is the first a-Si:H AMOLED display to be manufactured directly on DuPont Teijin’s polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) substrate.
The companies will be showing a 4.1" monochrome QVGA flexible OLED at SID. This display has the same brightness as normal displays with extremely low power consumption. The flexible backplane display was manufactured at the Flexible Display Center utilizing a 180°C thin film transistor process. The FDC’s facility implements traditional flat panel and semiconductor tools and processes to achieve flexible displays, enabled by its proprietary bond-debond technology to secure the plastic substrate to a rigid carrier during manufacture.
Universal Display reports 1Q results
Universal Display reported their 1Q results. For the first quarter of 2009, the Company reported a net loss of $5.5M, Revenues were $2.8M.
They are still optimistic, and waiting for ramp-ups in OLED production from Samsung SMD, CMEL and LG.
Universal Display Shows White, Transparent and Flexible OLEDs
Today Universal Display is showing their PHOLED technology at EcoFocus NY.
UDC Flexible OLED Display Concept
Among the product prototypes will be Universal Display’s wrist-worn,
flexible PHOLED display, developed jointly with LG Display and L-3
Communications for the U.S. Department of Defense. In addition, the
company will showcase a scaled white PHOLED lighting atrium, transparent
PHOLED pixels, and commercial products that currently use Universal
Display’s PHOLED technology.
We don't have any new photos yet, but hopefully we'll get some during the day.
US Department of Energy Supports Several new OLED Lighting Projects
The National Energy Technology Laboratory, on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced its selection for solid-state lighting funding opportunities. A total of fourteen projects were chosen, six of which are OLED related.
QD Vision: Quantum Dot Light Enhancement Substrate for OLED Solid-State Lighting
Summary: This project seeks to develop and demonstrate a cost-competitive solution for realizing increased extraction efficiency organic light emitting devices (OLEDs) with efficient and stable color rendering index (CRI) for SSL. Solution processible quantum dot (QD) films will be utilized to generate tunable white emission from blue emitting phosphorescent OLED (Ph-OLED) devices.
