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LG reiterates plans for a 55" OLED TV in middle 2012, also discusses plastic based flexible OLED
Nov 5th
During LG Display’s conference call discussing their Q3 2011 financial results, the company reiterated plans to release a 55″ OLED TV product in the middle of 2012 . LG’s OLED TV will be Oxide-TFT based. This will not be mass production, but the company hopes that towards the end of 2012 they will announce their plans for mass production. LG Display is aiming towards 80 yield in their pilot plant, and will announce the yield in the middle of 2Q 2012. LG OLED TV prototype We already know that LG isn’t developing small OLED panels for mobiles any more , but LG are developing plastic based OLEDs (using their existing 4.5-Gen fab) as they consider these to have the real value for the mobile solution. They say that as they have experience with plastic based e-paper prototypes they hope that this is will not take long to develop. read more
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LG reiterates plans for a 55" OLED TV in middle 2012, also discusses plastic based flexible OLED
Horizontal orientation of emitting OLED molecules
Nov 1st
Prof. Daisuke Yokoyama from the Yamagata University in Japan published an interesting research paper about molecular orientation in small-molecule OLEDs. Daisuke says that orienting the molecules horizontally has two positive effects: the light outcoupling efficiency is increased (by around 50% compared to randomly oriented emitters) and the charge transport between molecules becomes more efficient (which can lead to a lower driving voltage). Daisuke tells us that some materials in commercial OLEDs are already horizontally oriented – but not all. He claims that most phosphorescent emitters are not horizontally oriented yet. If so, we can expect good performance increases once these materials are oriented.
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Horizontal orientation of emitting OLED molecules
AUO shows a 32" Oxide-TFT based OLED TV prototype, 4" flexible AMOLED panel
Oct 24th
AUO announced it will show several OLED prototypes at the FPD International 2011 exhibition later this week. The company will show a new 32″ Full-HD OLED TV prototype. This TV uses a Metal Oxide TFT as backplane and is only 3mm thick. AUO says that the TV has a quick response time and high contrast ratio. Hopefully the company will unveil the specifications and commercialization plans during the conference. AUO will also show a 4″ Flexible AMOLED panel (which is based on Low Temperature Processed Metal Oxide TFT as backplane driver). This panel is only 0.3mm thick. read more
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AUO shows a 32" Oxide-TFT based OLED TV prototype, 4" flexible AMOLED panel
Two OLED patents up for sale on Live IP Auction
Oct 20th
ICAP Patent Brokerage is organizing a Live IP Auction on November 16 and 17, and there will be two OLED patents on sale. The first patent is titled ” Organic Light Emitting Devices (OLED) Materials “, authored by Bhalchandra M. Karandikar (US patent #6,689,494). The patents offers using rigidized cyanines as emissive materials in an OLED assembly. The second patent is titled ” Touch Sensitive Organic Light Emitting Diode ” and is authored by Lee Young Jong. This is a Korean patent (#KR 1007435450000) and it also includes a US patent application. This patent describes a touch sensing OLED.
Now’s your chance to get an OLED TV, cheaper than ever
Oct 20th
If you always wanted an OLED TV , but thought it was too expensive, maybe now’s your chance. If you live in the UK, anyway. LG is now offering the EL9500 for “only” £1,058 (down from £1,970, that’s almost a 50% drop). If you rather have the Sony XEL-1, it costs £999 (but hurry up, there’s only one left in stock). LG EL9500 If you live in the US, you may be happy to know that the PVM-2541 is now down to $5490 . And you’ll get Sony’s latest 25.4″ OLED panel , Full-HD (1080p), 178-degrees viewing angle, 10-bit drivers and a 1W mono speaker. read more
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Now’s your chance to get an OLED TV, cheaper than ever
Lumiotec’s Hanger lamp on video
Oct 5th
Lumiotec is showing their Hanger OLED lamps over at CEATEC 2011. Here’s a nice video showing the lamp in action: The Hanger is a portable lamp that uses Lumiotec’s 14.5×14.5 Square white OLED panels. The OLED features a color temperature of 4,900K, maximum luminance of 2,700cd/m 2 and it consumes 9.5W. The lamp itself comes in several colors (red, white, yellow, blue, yellow-green, pink, purple and silver). The price of the Hanger (including the controller, dimmer switch and AC/DC adapter) is ¥35,000 (or about $450) which makes it the cheapest OLED lamp available.
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Lumiotec’s Hanger lamp on video
Mitsubishi shows a curved Diamond Vision OLED display
Oct 5th
Mitsubishi installed a curved Diamond Vision OLED display at the CEATEC 2011 exhibition. This display uses 696 PMOLED modules – each 32x32mm in size. Mitsubishi says that the pixel pitch is 3mm – which means that each module’s resolution is 10×10. This is actually a very small Diamond Vision OLED installation – compared to the gigantic OLED globe installed in Tokyo’s science museum – which has 10,362 panels (!) – each 96x96mm in size… read more
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Mitsubishi shows a curved Diamond Vision OLED display
Something big (and curved) is coming from Samsung…
Oct 5th
Samsung is hosting an event on October 11th (during the CTIA Enterprise & Applications show in San Diego) – apparantly together with Google. They released a short teaser that towards the end shows a mysterious curved device: There are speculations that this is the next Google phone (perhaps called Nexus Prime) – that will include a curved Super AMOLED HD display. We don’t have a lot to wait for this one! Hopefully they won’t fail us like Apple just did yesterday . Here’s the full (30 seconds) teaser video: read more
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Apple introduces the iPhone 4S, with the same 3.5" Retina display
Oct 5th
Apple hosted their iPhone event yesterday, and introduced the latest version – the iPhone 4S . It uses the same 3.5″ Retina (LCD) display as the iPhone 4. The hardware upgrades are not very exciting: a faster processor (dual core A5) and an upgraded camera (8mp). It also includes a hybrid CDMA and GSM chipset. A few weeks ago we started hearing rumors that the next iPhone (the iPhone 5) will include an OLED display . Even though such rumors circulated before each Apple product introduction, this time Samsung’s AMOLED production capacity may indeed be high enough for Apple – so we’re a bit disappointed. Of course, the iPhone 4S is a ‘minor’ update and not an entirely new device – and we’re sure Apple is working on the iPhone 5. Will it be the first Apple OLED device?
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Apple introduces the iPhone 4S, with the same 3.5" Retina display
On Samsung’s and LGD’s OLED production scaling methods
Oct 5th
The OLED Association published a very interesting paper discussing Samsung’s and LG Display’s efforts to scale OLED production to large size panels (specifically 55″ OLED TVs ). In the article, they say that Samsung will use an LTPS substrate with a SMS (Small Mask Scanning) method, while LGD plans to use an Oxide TFT and Kodak’s White OLED with color filters architecture. We already reported about Samsung’s SMS method a few weeks ag o. The article includes a very interesting comparison of the different deposition methods (FMM, LITI, SMS, Printing and LG’s RGBW). They also claim that the new display in the Samsung Galaxy II LTE HD was produced using LITI .
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On Samsung’s and LGD’s OLED production scaling methods