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New video mic flag uses 3 OLED displays, new advertising space
Feb 3rd
Recom group has released the world’s first video mic flag – which uses 3 to 4 (depends on configuration) OLED displays. The company reports that the new mic flag is already being used at by CBS, CNET, NBC, ABC, FOX, ESPN, CNN, and Bloomberg and was also used by several broadcasters at the superbowl and the NBA. This mic flag was also used by many broadcasters at CES, and CNN’s Katie Linendoll called it one of her top five picks of the show. The mic flag shows advertisements – from companies such as Ford, Toyota, Subway, Gillette and Pepsi. This brings extra revenue for the broadcasters. Recom says that the flag uses 3 to 4 OLED displays (probably the same ones as on Recom’s video name tag – 2.8″ 320×240 AMOLED panels) and it lasts 8-10 on a single battery charge. It provides a premium advertising space because it’s part of the broadcast. Here’s a video of the mic flag in action, from the superbowl: read more
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Corning and Samsung forms a new OLED glass joint venture
Feb 2nd
Corning and Samsung Mobile Display are going to establish a new equity venture for the manufacture of specialty OLED glass substrates in Korea. The new venture will combine Corning’s Lotus Glass substrate technology with SMD’s OLED display expertise – and will provide product solutions for current and future OLED technologies. The new venture will produce glasses for all OLED sizes: for small mobile panels to large OLED TV panels. It’ll be interested to hear whether this new venture will also develop transparent and flexible glass displays, as envisioned in Corning’s” Day made of glass ” concept video: read more
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Samsung to unveil the Galaxy S2 successor during the first half of 2012
Feb 1st
There are already speculations about the Galaxy S III specifications , and now Samsung says they are indeed working on a successor to the Galaxy S2. They won’t unveil it at the Mobile World Congress 2012 – but rather in a separate event during the first half of 2012, closer to the commercial availability. It will be very interesting to see Samsung’s new flagship phone, and obviously we’re mostly interested in the display. Will it be a Super AMOLED HD , or will Samsung surprise us with some new technology? Maybe the S3 will be the first phone with a plastic based flexible AMOLED ? We’ll have to wait a few months to find out… read more
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Sony TX200V
Jan 30th
Sony’s TX200V is a waterproof and dustproof digital camera with a 18mp sensor, 5X optical zoom and a 3.3″ touch AMOLED display . It has a clean glass-covered front design. The TX200V can capture Full-HD videos (and take 13mp stills while doing so) and has a built-in GPS. The TX200V will be available in March 2012 for around $500. It will be available in three colors (red, silver and purple). OLED type: 3.3″ touch AMOLED
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30% off the OLED Handbook printed edition – till January 31
Jan 29th
Lulu.com, our print on demand publisher is now offering a 30% discount on The OLED Handbook . You can now get the book for just $105 ! Just use coupon SHELFSTOCK305 when you check out . This great discount offer is valid through January 31 – yes, for just three days! so hurry up. If you prefer the digital edition (PDF download), it costs $97 . We also offer site and enterprise license options. read more
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LG Display to start making OLED TV panels in July, capacity will be 48,000 units a month
Jan 27th
LG Display says that they will begin production in their 8.5-Gen plant in July, making 8,000 monthly substrates – or about 48,000 55″ OLED TV panels. It’s possible that this assumes 100% yield – and in any case this is more panels then planned . LG plans to invest 4 trillion Won (around $3.5 billion) in OLED production this year, and plans for 2013 will only be made during in the third quarter – LG wants to see the market reaction. LG’s 55EM9600 is a 55″ Full-HD OLED TV featuring 100,000,000:1 contrast ratio and fast response time (1,000 times faster than LCD according to LG). The panel is only 4mm thick, and the whole TV weighs just 7.5Kg. The TV is based on LG Display’s Oxide-TFT white-OLED with color filters (RGBW) OLED panel. read more
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Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo now offering a printable conductive silver ink
Jan 24th
Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo announced that their conductive silver ink is now available commercially, and they say they are the first company to offer such a prOduct. The silver ink is hardened using UV light – there’s no need for thermal hardening, and can be used in a broad range of products – including OLED panels. The ink needs to be exposed to UV light for around 0.3 seconds, and it then hardens instantaneously even at room temperature to form a current-carrying circuit. For a 5 µm film thickness, wiring was formed with an electric resistivity of 10 -3 ?cm. The ink can be used on both a glass base and a flexible base (PVC or PET films). read more
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Philips to reach OLED lighting panel efficiency of 120 lm/W by 2019
Jan 24th
Digitimes Research posted about Philips lighting unit, and they said that the company’s goal is to reach an efficiency of 120 lm/W for their OLED lighting panels by 2019. We talked to Philips and indeed they confirm this number. Philips is gearing up to start production in their new Aachen production plant which will increase production capacity tenfold and will also lower prices considerably. This is quite an increase from the panels Philips make today. The regular Lumiblades offer around 12 lm/W, while the Lumiblade Plus (a phosphorescent panel, developed by Konica Minolta and produced by Philips) offers 45 lm/W. We reviewed Philips’ new Lumiblades recently , here’s the short hands on video: read more
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Samsung – over 5 million Galaxy S II phones sold in South Korea, 25% of Koreans use this phone!
Jan 22nd
Samsung announced that they sold over 5 million Galaxy S II phones in South Korea. This is the first time a single phone model reached that number in Korea. Samsung calls the S II Korea’s “national phone” – and it makes sense as 25% of phone owners in Korea (about 20 million) use it! Samsung’s Galaxy S2 is the successor to the popular Galaxy S . It 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
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"Wasted" light from OLED displays can be harvested by solar cells
Jan 22nd
Researchers from Cambridge University and Ignis Innovation developed a new energy harvested that sits inside a mobile phone with an OLED display and harvests energy from the light that is projected to the display’s sides. The researchers say that up to 64% of the light is lost in typical OLED displays – much of it projected to the edges of the display. The idea is simple – to place an array of thin-film hydrogenated a-Si solar cells around the OLED. These cells can also harvest ambient light. The researchers made a complete system design – instead of charging the battery with the power generated (which would be quite complex) they added a supercapacitor for intermediate energy storage. They say the system achieves an average efficiency of 11% and peak efficiency of 18%, while the PV array converts around 5% of the ambient light to electricity. They say that on a typical 3.7″ OLED display the maximum power output is 5 milliwatts. Useful, but not significant compared to the phone’s power needs, so it’s not clear whether this is worth the extra cost, size and weight. read more
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"Wasted" light from OLED displays can be harvested by solar cells