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Novaled to show new transparent OLED based lamps
Apr 13th
Novaled announced that they will be showing new OLED luminaries at the L+B 2012 show next week. They will be showing three new luminaries: a suspension light (“Linfinity“), a wall light (“Lucentury”) and a floor light (“Trinity”). These lamps include transparent OLEDs and are made from high-end, lightweight, stable and indestructible carbon fiber. Novaled will also show the Victory lamp in a wide range of colors. Novaled also revealed a new lamp design called the PAD (named after the pad-like fingers of the red-eyed tree frog) – shown above. Here three transparent white OLED panels are used, but interestingly, when the panels are turned off, each will filter the ambient light to be in a different color (see on the right image above). The PAD was designed by Marcus Tremonto. read more
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Sony’s new CEO announces a turnaround strategy, will develop and commercialize OLED TVs
Apr 12th
Sony’s new CEO, Kaz Hirai, is now in office, and he announced a new strategy that will hopefully turn around the company. The “One Sony” initiative, which includes a headcount reduction (of 10,000 employees), will cost almost a billion dollars in 2012. The company will focus on digital imaging, gaming and mobile. Sony XEL-1 Regarding Sony’s TV business, they will continue to streamline the product line and reduce costs in an attempt to return to profitability by 2014. Sony intends to “advance the development and commercialization of next-generation display technologies such as OLED and Crystal LED Display”. This isn’t news as Sony already announced they plan “major investments in OLED TVs’ back in February 2012 , but it’s good to see Sony’s OLED TVs are still on track.
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Japan Display to start producing OLED panels by March 2013
Apr 3rd
Japan Display (the new small/medium display maker that merged Sony, Hitachi and Toshiba’s businesses ) announced that it plans to start mass producing OLED displays for smartphones. First panel samples are expected by March 2013. In order to have an edge over Samsung, JD aims to achieve over 300 ppi and develop panels that are more efficient than Samsung’s OLEDs. Analysts suggest that JD will try to secure Apple as a customer for their OLED panels. Back in November there were reports that JD plans to accelerate OLED mass production with a $1.3 billion investment in OLED R&D (which probably includes pilot production plants), and later on invest a further $1.4 billion towards mass production. It was suggested that JD may convert their Mobara LCD plant (bought from Panasonic) to LTPS and later to AMOLED production . read more
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On Lumiotec’s technology and manufacturing process
Mar 29th
Lumiotec released an interesting article that discusses the company’s Multi-Photon Emission (MPE) stacked device structure and how it helps to achieve high luminance and long lifetime, their light out-coupling and encapsulation technologies and the company’s mass production process. The paper also includes a discussion on the development of their next generation panel which uses phosphorescent materials provided by Universal Display Corporation to improve the efficiency . Here’s our own review of Lumiotec’s Hanger and Vanity OLED lamps , and here’s our review of the company’s first-gen OLED lighting panel . Here are a couple of videos showing Lumiotec’s panels and lamps: read more
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China’s BOE Display and CSOT both gearing up for AMOLED development?
Mar 14th
There are reports that Chinese panel producers BOE Display and China Star Optoelectronics Technology ( CSOT ) are both gearing up AMOLED development. BOE is apparently focusing on Oxide-TFT backplanes for AMOLED displays, and have produced a 4″ WQVGA AMOLED prototype. Back in August 2011 there were reports that BOE Display are planning a $3.5 billion 5.5-Gen fab in Monogola , but we’re not sure if this is for real. read more
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Novaled poised for IPO?
Mar 14th
There are reports that Novaled is ready for IPO and wants to list their shares on the Nasdaq within a few months. Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs will prepare the flotation. Novaled is currently backed by Venture capital (including a recent strategic investment from Samsung in late 2011 ). Novaled’s latest major financing round was in January 2009 (they raised $11.2 million back then ). The company says that their 2010 revenue were €11.2 million – and this was supposed to double or more in 2011 (although we do not have official information from the company yet). The company’s major client is Samsung. Novaled provides technology and materials (non-emissive) for OLED displays and lighting panels. The company also has a line of high-end OLED lighting lamps called the Liternity . read more
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Germany launches an OLED lighting efficiency research project
Mar 1st
Germany launched a new research project called HARPOON that aims to improve OLED lighting’s efficiency in a cost effective way. We don’t have a lot of details about this project yet, but it seems that it will involve software simulation and optimizations of vacuum related production processes. The project’s coordinated is Philips, and it is partly funded by the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia. First results will be published in 2014.
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Samsung sold over 20 million Galaxy S II phones
Feb 23rd
Samsung reported today that it has sold over 20 million Galaxy S II phones in 10 months (7 months faster than the Galaxy S model). The accumulated sales of the Galaxy S and SII models now surpasses 40 million (i.e. Samsung sold 20 million of each phone model). Just last month Samsung announced that is sold over 5 million SII phones in South Korea alone – and about 25% of South Koreans own this phone!. Samsung’s Galaxy S2 has a 4.3″ WVGA Super AMOLED plus display, 1.2Ghz dual-core processor, NFC, Bluetooth 3 and HSPA+. It’s only 8.49mm thick at its thinnest point. read more
Samsung Electronics considers taking over SMD
Feb 7th
In a filing to the Korean Stock Exchange, Samsung Electronics announced it is considering taking over Samsung Mobile Display . Currently Samsung Electronics holds 64.4% in SMD (the rest is held by Samsung SDI). SMD is Samsung’s OLED unit, and they produce over 90% of the world’s AMOLED displays. Samsung Electronics says that this move will improve the synergy within the group. But this can be bad news for other companies who rely on SMD’s AMOLED panels, as perhaps the will not want to keep the best displays for their own devices. read more
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What’s behind Nokia’s ClearBlack display technology?
Feb 5th
Nokia’s ClearBlack Display technology has been announced in September 2010, and Nokia is using it in several phones (including the Lumia 900 , Lumia 800 and older Symbian models such as the X7 and E7 ). We know that it includes polarizing filters to block incoming light. Today however Nokia finally revealed how it actually works: A CBD filter includes both a linear polariser and retardation layers between the surface of your phone and the display. When light hits your screen, this is what happens: read more
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