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Japan Display, to aim to mass produce flexible and glass AMOLED for mobile device

2014年 10月 30日/0 コメント/カテゴリ: ディスプレイ, フォーカス・オン /作成者: OLEDNET

At the Display Innovation 2014 (FPD International) held in Yokohama, Japan from October 29 2014, Japan Display (JDI) unveiled the flexible AMOLED panel for the first time.

The flexible AMOLED panel which was presented this time employed WRGB method with PI substrate, and it is 5.2inch (FHD, 423PPI) TFE (thin film encapsulation) applied panel with the thickness of 0.05mm.

It is a new AMOLED panel released after a year and a half since the glass type 5.2-inch FHD AMOLED panel was made public on March 2013, and it demonstrates JDI’s will of business on the AMOLED panel for mobile device.

Company official from JDI OLED R&D group said, the precise time cannot be provided but they are preparing for the mass production of AMOLED panel for mobile device and the product targets are set for both flexible and glass types.

JDI is developing AMOLED panel for mobile devices at the Gen6 LTPS line of Ishikawa.

< 5.2- inch flexible AMOLED panel presented by Japan Display>

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SEL, ceaseless efforts to develop AMOLED

2014年 10月 30日/0 コメント/カテゴリ: ディスプレイ, フォーカス・オン /作成者: OLEDNET

Having the limelight as unveiling the foldable AMOLED panel and 8K AMOLED panel for the first time at SID 2014, SEL’s technology innovation continued at this Display Innovation 2014.

The 5.9 inch foldable AMOLED display got bigger by the 8.7-inch this time, exhibited together with various products including the 27inch multi-OLED display, 2.8-inch super high resolution AMOLED panel of 1058ppi, 13.3-inch 8k(661ppi) AMOLED panel, and 3.4-inch panel for the smart watch.

Especially the 8.7 inch foldable AMOLED display drew much attention as employing the touch sensor and the 27-inch multi-OLED display which was produced by combining four of 13.5-inch AMOLED panels applying the transparent bezel technique, suggesting the probability to be the new alternative for the large area AMOLED as it is possible to produce larger than 27-inch size.

In addition, the AMOLED panel for the smart watch attracted attention as using the self-developed bendable battery.

<Transparent bezel of 3.5-inch AMOLED and 27-inch multi-OLED display combining those>

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EverDisplay, to become the first Chinese company to mass produce AMOLED

2014年 10月 29日/0 コメント/カテゴリ: ディスプレイ, フォーカス・オン /作成者: OLEDNET

EverDisplay (EDO) began the pilot production of 5.6 inch FHD AMOLED panel in October. The FHD AMOLED (1920 x 1080) panel that EverDisplay began to trial produce is a model for the 4G flagship phone using LTPS TFT with the resolution of 394ppi. The thickness and weight is 0.66mm and 12.9g respectively.

Already in the second quarter of 2014, EverDisplay was seeking customers as they succeeded in producing the 5 inch, 5.5 inch, and 6 inch HD panels. At the conference held at Shenzhen in September, they announced the success of producing the 5.6 inch FHD AMOLED panel for the first time and unveiled the panel at the same time. In addition, the 5.6 inch and 1.63 inch AMOLED panels for the wearable device were presented simultaneously.

The 1.63 inch AMOLED panel is 31.28mm x 34.78mm with the resolution of 320 x 320, 277ppi. The feature of the AMOLED panel for the wearable device that the EverDisplay revealed is that it has the same size and resolution with the Galaxy Gear 2 released by Samsung Electronics early in 2014.

EverDisplay aims to succeed in mass-producing the HD AMOLED panel in the fourth quarter of 2014 and the FHD AMOLED panel in February of 2015. If EverDisplay starts to mass produce in the fourth quarter of 2014, they will be the first Chinese Display company to implement the business. And this first step of the Chinese company is not insignificant in the OLED industry which is led primarily by the Korean companies.

Established in Shanghai on October 2012, EverDisplay focuses on the production of small and medium sized AMOLED and it holds 4.5G LTPS TFT line at present.

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LG Display, OLED will continue next year

2014年 10月 23日/0 コメント/カテゴリ: ディスプレイ, フォーカス・オン /作成者: OLEDNET

LG Display is focused on the OLED business to take the lead in current market. At the Performance Presentation for 3Q held on October 22, 2014, LGD demonstrated its confidence on the OLED as the future industry-leading business.

Don Kim, CFO of LGD said, “LG Display is developing the OLED business bearing losses for the time being as we are convinced that OLED will be the industry of the future, and anticipate profits to improve next year in terms of OLED.”

Currently LGD is forming a market by exclusively supplying panels for OLED TV. Providing panels for OLED TV to Korea and China, LGD stated that it will expand the market, for instance, securing the Japanese customers in the future.

The technology developed to countermeasure the OLED TV is the QD LCD TV. The strategy in respond to OLED is one of main issues as Chinese companies have unveiled the QD TV and Samsung is expected to release it next year. Regarding this, LGD’s executive director of strategic marketing, Youngkwon Song said that the strategies for the OLED TV will not change by reason of the release of QD TV, and LGD will continue its fundamental competitiveness of OLED which are competitive price and design differentiation attained by constant strategy of removing BLU.

For the investment plan for 4Q, it is anticipated to reduce the investment cost compared to the amount of 3.5 trillion won of last year. Don Kim, CFO said that the investment on LCD will be limited while the investment on the distinguished products like OLED will be about conversion of existing fab.

Despite LGD is taking a favorable turn with small and medium size LCD panels at present, it is expected to continue the preparation strategy through OLED. But it is analyzed that the future plan using LCD is not stable due to the rapid increase of Chinese companies’ capacities and lowering of price.

LGD’s revenues in the third quarter of 2014 is KRW 6,547 billion, increased by 10% compared to the previous quarter, and the operating profit is KRW 474 billion, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 191%. The outlook is that it is due to the increase of the shipments in time with the release of the Apple IPhone 6.

‘The shipment for the third quarter was 9,654Km²as expected and it was measured against the expected preparation for considering the tight demand-supply status’, said Don Kim, CFO of LGD. Furthermore, as per product, the sales percentage of mobile devices and tablets applying the small and medium panels were accounted for 19% and 12% respectively, a quarter-on-quarter increases of 3% for each.

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Samsung VS. LG, to take different OLED strategies

2014年 10月 17日/0 コメント/カテゴリ: ディスプレイ, フォーカス・オン /作成者: OLEDNET

The separate OLED strategies of Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics drew much attention at the Korea Electronics Show 2014 held at Ilsan KINTEX from 14^thOctober.

Samsung Electronics promoted the 105-inch bendable UHD TV with a curvature of 4000R as a major product and implied concentration on LED TV as not exhibiting OLED TV. Meanwhile, the Galaxy Note Edge and 4, and gear S were displayed intensely in the mobile section, suggesting that the mobile is taking the OLED oriented strategy.

On the other hand, LG Electronics received fervent response from the audience as exhibiting the five 77-inch Curved UHD OLED TV and advertised OLED TV providing customers to experience merits of OLED TV at the OLED TV zone set inside the booth. For mobile, only the G Watch R applying OLED was showed without any comment on the following product of G-flex.

This tendency of pursuing disparate strategies began from CES 2014 of this year. Starting from excluding OLED TV from the booth under the theme of World first curved UHD TV, Samsung has stated at IFA 2014 that the concentration is more on the LED not OLED in terms of TV for a while. With regard to mobile, active strategy was devised releasing the Galaxy 5, Galaxy note4, and Galaxy tap S with QHD AMOLED panel and Galaxy Edge with flexible display. LG lowered the price of the 55-inch Curved FHD OLED TV down to $4,000 and implemented dynamic promotion, announcing the release of 55-inch, 65-inch, and 77-inch curved OLED TV. And publicly mentioning the focus on the OLED TV business, LG has highlighted that it will lead the OLED TV market in the future.

<LG Electronics’ 77-inch curved UHD OLED TV와 OLED TV Exclusive Booth>

<Samsung Electronics’ 105-inch bendable UHD TV and mobile booth>

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LED TV emits three times more harmful blue light than OLED TV

2014年 10月 17日/0 コメント/カテゴリ: ディスプレイ, フォーカス・オン /作成者: OLEDNET

The LCD emits 3.1 times more blue light than OLED, said Choi Dong-won, senior vice president of LG Display at the IMID Display Business Forum held at Ilsan Kintex.

Recently, the harmful aspect of the blue light is suggested in Japan including Europe and U.S. The blue light emits the high-energy light of 380~550nm wavelength. In May of 2012, the Harvard Medical School has announced that the exposure to the blue light at night may keep people up late as well as cause cancer, diabetes, or heart disease, and there was a research regarding the influence of blue light from LED on retina at Japan.

LG Display said that OLED TV emitted 1/3 of blue light than LCD TV, measured under the general household environment.

Mr. Choi also said that the blue light issue will be resolved as the blue light is proportional to the luminance and area, and LG Display manufactures OLED panel for the use of TV changes from 55-inch to 65-inch. He also added that OLED TV is appropriate for Curved TV as it is, unlike LCD, free of light leakage phenomenon.

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Samsung Display, OLED is the best for mobile devices

2014年 10月 17日/0 コメント/カテゴリ: ディスプレイ, フォーカス・オン /作成者: OLEDNET

Samsung Display proved that the OLED is the optimum display for a mobile device as launching the new function which is only available in the OLED at the IMID 2014 held at Ilsan, KINTEX.

Samsung Display introduced the ultra-power saving, color weakness, and super dimming which are the functions maximizing the merits of AMOLED.

Ultra power saving mode is a function structuring the screen with black and white as a grayscale display by activating only the parts expressed in white using the OLED feature of operating pixels separately. This function is not offered by LCD which requires to run entire BLU for only one pixel and it is useful in emergency situation as it is possible to use the smartphone up to 8 days with the 63% of battery.

Color weakness mode is a function enabling people with color vision deficiency to distinguish R and G clearly through the display by applying the technology of increasing or reducing the brightness of R and G pixel among the R,G,B sub pixels of OLED and it is also not available in the LCD which uses color filter.

Lastly, super dimming mode is a function providing a comfortable viewing experience without any distortion or dazzle in very dark environments. In the bed room environment, 1~2 nit is reported to be the best nit without dazzle, and while there is a dazzle effect for LCD even in the lowest 8 nit in the bed room environment, there is glaring for OLED that 2 nit is possible, allowing people to watch comfortably.

In addition, announcing the 14-inch AMOLED panel for tablet PC with the resolution of WQUXG, Samsung Display drew a great interests from the audience, attesting Samsung Display’s exceptional technology in mobile AMOLED.

<Ultra Saving mode>

<Color Weakness mode>

<Super Dimming mode>

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Life of OLED lighting panel, to reach LED

2014年 10月 13日/0 コメント/カテゴリ: ディスプレイ, フォーカス・オン /作成者: OLEDNET

The life of OLED lighting panel is improving equal to the level of LED (more than 50,000 hours).

According to the NIKKEI report, Kaneka developed the OLED lighting panel with a lifetime of 50,000 hours. The panel is 8×8 cm in size and 1 mm thick, and samples are shipped to some lighting companies. Applying enhanced Blue material, the color change due to thermalization has dropped under 40% and the price is about the same.

KANEKA is producing OLED lighting panel with an annual capacity of about 20,000 panels. In the Lighting fair 2013, the company exhibited OLED lighting panels of 50x50mm and 80x80mm sizes in diverse colors of white, yellow, red, green, and blue which are currently sold at about 4,000 yen for the 50x50mm panel and 6,000 yen for the 80x80mm panel.

The OLED lighting panel with the longest lifetime on sale is LG Chem.’s 100x100mm panel with 80lm/W and 50,000 hours.

The UBI Research issued “2014 OLED lighting Report” prospecting the OLED lighting panel market to be open actively from 2015 and reach about US $ 4,700 million by 2020.

<Kaneka announced OLED lighting at Lighting fair 2013>

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Flexible AMOLED battle, Who are going to win?

2014年 10月 10日/0 コメント/カテゴリ: ディスプレイ, フォーカス・オン /作成者: OLEDNET

In 2013, the flexible AMOLED panel was mass produced in Korea for the first time in the world and the smart phone applying this technology was released. With the announcement of smart phones like Galaxy Gear and G watch R this year, the interest in flexible AMOLED industry is rising, developing actively in Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan.

As a front-runner, LG Display of Korea is mass producing the round type flexible AMOLED panel for G watch R along with the groundwork for the 5.5-inch flexible AMOLED panel to be employed on the G flex 2. In addition, the 18-inch flexible AMOLED panel was developed as a part of the national project. Samsung Display supplied 2-side 5.6-inch flexible AMOLED panel for Galaxy Note Edge and 2-inch flexible AMOLED panel for Gear S, and it is planning to mass produce foldable flexible AMOLED panel upon successful development.

The SEL’s research activities are most active in Japan. SEL drew a huge attention at SID 2014 as introducing the tri-foldable, book type, and 13.5-inch 4K flexible AMOLED panels using CAAS-OS backplane.

The Chinese companies BOE and New Vision Optoelectronics launched the flexible AMOLED panel at SID 2014, and as AUO showing the 5-inch flexible AMOLED panel and ITRI presenting the 6-inch foldable AMOLED panel at Touch Taiwan 2014, the companies of Taiwan also joined the development competition.

Accordingly, key companies are in the course of developing the flexible AMOLED panel but the TFT technology exclusively for the plastic substrate (high-resolution/Bezel, power consumption) must be developed intensively for the fabrication on the flexible device in bendable/foldable/rollable form. Furthermore, the technology to lower curvature and encapsulation technologies must be developed along with the miscellaneous flexible components and equipment design technologies.

< Flexible AMOLED panel unveiled in 2014>

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LG Chemicals to develop the world’s first 100lm/W OLED Lighting Panel

2014年 9月 11日/0 コメント/カテゴリ: ディスプレイ, フォーカス・オン /作成者: OLEDNET

According to the LG Chemicals, it is about to take over the market as developing the OLED lighting to the level high enough to compete with LED for the first time in the world. In this context, the LG Chemicals announced the release of efficient and durable OLED lighting panel beginning from November.

Having the light efficiency of 100lm/W and long durability of 40,000 hrs., the OLED lighting panel that the LG Chemicals has developed this time is compatible not only with the fluorescent light (100lm/W, 20,000 hrs.) but also with LED light (Above 100lm/W, 50,000 hrs.). In particular, this technological development of the LG Chemicals is evaluated outstanding compared to the OLED lighting panel of major lighting companies with the efficiency of 60lm/W.

OLED lighting is the only light source in the form of plane, taking the center stage as ‘ecofriendly lighting’ which will lead the future lighting market for the features such as no dazzling or heat emission, and heavy metals like led, mercury, etc. While the LED lighting requires additional materials like a light guide panel, a heat sinking plane, and a lampshade when manufacturing a light equipment, the OLED needs no elements, ultimately saving the production cost. In addition, it is easy to install and its application range is divers as the thickness is 1/10 of LED and the weight is only 1/5 which could be another distinguishing property against other light sources.

In an attempt to popularized OLED light which has many merits as mentioned above, the LG Chemicals realized the technology to enhance user convenience and improved cost structure. First, it has completed the development of the ‘OLED lighting engine’ which is a module type product that anyone can use by plugging in and it is expected to be mass produced in the future.

* OLED lighting engine: Modulized product combining the OLED lighting panel with operation driver.

In addition, it is anticipated to be supplied with the price similar to LED when mass produced by applying differentiated OLED materials and improving the yielding rate. LG Chemicals plans to focus its business on the two primary lighting markets of North America and Europe with its distinguishing technologies.

To this end, LG Chemicals is devoted to build main global customers first, currently secured more than 50 companies including the biggest American lighting company like Acuity. Furthermore, it is planning to go into the automobile light markets which takes up to 20% of the entire lighting market for the expansion of OLED lighting application fields.

With a wide range of design applicability of recent OLED, it is favored in the automotive lighting apparatus markets and to go along with this trend, LG Chemicals is developing an automotive taillight applying the OLED lighting panel in cooperation with global automobile corporations in Europe, Japan, etc., intended to mass-produce in 2017.

Park Young-ki, the President of LG Chemicals said that “There is a large market potential for OLED lighting as it has many merits like quality lights, ease of installation, etc. different from the existing lightings” and added “The plan is to promote the lighting through the continuous R&D and mass-production investment equipped with our world class technology.”

According to the UBI Research, the market research company, the OLED lighting panel market is expected to record the drastic average annual growth of more than 100%, opening from the 2015 and reaching about 550 billion won in 2016 and 4.8 trillion won in 2020.

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