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Updates on Visionox’s OLED lighting program: new panels and lamps unveiled
Apr 27th
We’ve got some interesting updates from Visionox today, regarding their OLED lighting program. The company has started to produce new OLED lighting panels. Those panels (product code BCPW030060A, spec here ) are 73×42 mm in size (active area 30×60 mm), and are 1.8 mm thick. The lifetime is over 10,000 hours (LT70) at 1000 cd/m 2 , and the color temperature is 4500K-5000K. The panels are actually quite cheap at $70. We do not know the efficiency but apparently it’s not very high. Visionox also unveiled their next generation panels, currently being produced in small quantities on a pilot line. The new panels are 80×80 mm in size (active area 64×64 mm) and feature a color temperature of 4500K, over 80 CRI and a lifetime of over 10,000 hours (LT50 at 2000 cd/m 2 ). The new panels are quite efficient (40 lm/W) and Visionox revealed to us that they are using phosphorescent materials.
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Samsung to merge Samsung Display, SMD and S-LCD
Apr 27th
Samsung decided to merge its three display units: Samsung Display , Samsung Mobile Display (SMD) and S-LCD. The merger is expected to close on July 1st. Samsung Electronics will control the new unit, which will also be held by other Samsung units (such as Samsung SDI). This isn’t a surprise . A 7-inch Super AMOLED prototype The new company will be producing LCD and OLED panels – for mobile devices and TVs. It seems that the company will focus on OLEDs though. Here’s a quote from Samsung’s PR announcing the Samsung Display spin-off back in February , stating the importance of OLED technology: read more
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BASF envisions large area transparent OLED lighting solutions
Apr 26th
BASF released a nice video showing their “modern lighting solutions” – large area color-tunable transparent OLED lighting panels embedded in windows: We don’t have a lot of information on BASF’s OLED program. We do know that they are collaborating with Philips on transparent OLED/OPV panels , used in Daimler’s Smart Forvision concept EV : read more
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MIT’s OLED Display Blocks use six 128×128 PMOLEDs for a 360-degree perspective
Apr 25th
MIT’s Media Lab unveiled a new project called the OLED Display Blocks that uses a six-sided “cube” to provide a 360-degree perspective. The current prototype uses six 1.25″ 128×128 PMOLED panels, but in the future larger cubes can be made. MIT’s envisions all sorts of applications for such cubes: visualizing data with different parameters shown in each side, collaborating, showing movies with interweaving stories simultaneously and more:
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UDC to supply PHOLED materials to Fraunhofer’s OLED lighting panels
Apr 25th
Universal Display announced it will supply phosphorescent OLED materials to the Fraunhofer Institute which will use them to make efficient white OLED lighting panels. The two companies signed a two-year agreement under which COMEDD will develop and produce OLED panels “for market development”. The upcoming panels will use UDC’s all-phosphorescent solution. The Fraunhofer is already producing and shipping OLED lighting panels , including structured and transparent ones (we posted our on-hands review just yesterday ). The Fraunhofer does not plan to mass produce their panels, they are just meant to help interested people experiment with this exciting new technology. Of course in the future the Fraunhofer may license or spin-off its production technology.
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TABOLA transparent and structured OLEDs now shipping, we go hands on
Apr 23rd
The Fraunhofer Institute first announced their Tabola OLED lighting panels back in October 2010 , with plans to release them in Q1 2011. We haven’t heard anything since (and I assumed the project was scrapped) – but last week I got a nice surprise in the mail: three sample panels (two transparent, one structured). The Fraunhofer are now producing sample panels and have actually started to ship these cool transparent Tabola OLEDs to customers now – which makes these the first transparent OLED lighting panels on the market. Read on for our hands-on review. read more
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Sony to buy OLED TV panels from Samsung?
Apr 22nd
The Korea Herald reports that Sony is in talks with Samsung to purchase OLED TV panels. Sony wants to launch their OLED TVs in 2013 and officials from both companies have met last week to work out the pricing and supply volume. Samsung’s Super OLED TV technology uses direct emission OLEDs (as opposed to LG Display’s white subpixels with color filters architecture ) and an LTPS backplane. The first Samsung Super OLED TV will be 55″ in size and feature Smart TV and Smart-Interaction technologies. Samsung still wouldn’t reveal the model number officially, but it seems that it will be called KN55ES9000 , price or release date, although they do promise it will ship by Q2 or Q3 2012. read more
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LG Display opened a new display R&D center in Paju, Korea
Apr 19th
LG Display announced today that they opened a new R&D center that will focus on next-generation display panels (including OLED and panels) in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. The center resides in a 15-story building and LGD hopes that bringing together researchers and developers from all over the country to one place will bring more synergy and accelerate development. Paju is also hosts LGD’s 8.5-Gen OLED TV fab , and the company’s flexible OLED R&D line . The center will host around 2,500 workers – and relocation will complete by May 2012. The center will by a “mecca of high-tech display technologies such as OLED, e-paper and ultra-high resolution AH-IPS displays “. read more
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Samsung announces two new digital cameras with AMOLED displays
Apr 19th
Samsung announced two new cameras today, and both of them has the same display: 3″ VGA AMOLED (with PenTile ). The NX20 is Samsung’s flagship interchangeable lens camera. It has 20.3 mp APS-C CMOS sensor, has a built-in SVGA EVF, Wi-Fi, Full-HD video and the ISO range is up to 12,800. The second camera, the NX210 is a minor upgrade to the NX200 : it adds Wi-Fi and a tweaked image sensor. Other features stay the same – a 20.3 mp sensor, Full-HD videos and the same AMOLED display. read more
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The OLED Handbook 2012 edition released!
Apr 17th
I’m happy to announce the second edition of The OLED Handbook , the most comprehensive resource on OLEDs technology, industry and market, and this new edition not only brings it up to date, it also includes several new sections and in-depth reports. What’s new in the 2012 edition? Updated OLED gadgets, panels, fabs and roadmaps Info on Samsung’s and LG’s upcoming OLED TVs New production technologies Extended sections on backplane, substrate, encapsulation and more New sections on direct emission, WOLED-CF, Oxide-TFT, SMS, Nozzle printing, OLED lighting fabrication, polyimide and more 30 new companies detailed 31 new pages Actually, the entire book was revised! read more
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