China to start mass producing AMOLED from the end of this year

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Shenzhen Daily’s reporter Anna Zhao reported that Shanghai’s EverDisplay will begin to manufacture AMOLED panels starting the end of this year after the interview with Zhu Ketai, general manager of the company.

Zhu said that EverDisplay will increase production of a volume of high-quality AMOLED panels with high-definition and true color images, pointing out that although China’s mid- and low-end display screen market has been grown, the country still lacks a stake in the high-end product market with flagship brands.

 

Founded in October 2012, EverDisplay developed the 6-inch, VGA mono color AMOLED with 133ppi in January 2013. In December the same year, the company successfully developed the 5-inch HD full color AMOLED panel with 294ppi. With a line of the Gen-4.5 AMOLED products, the outfit aims to produce AMOLED panels used for smartphones, wearable devices, and automobiles and for the military purpose.

 

EverDisplay reportedly placed orders regarding two deposition systems respectively to Sunic System and Tokki in a bid to increase the manufacturing of AMOLED panels.

Bernd Unrecht releases suspended lamp “Adjust S-OLED”

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Bernd Unrecht, a German lighting company, introduced the “Adjust” series of OLED light panels that emit glare-free and diffuse light into their surroundings. They come in three sizes (3, 6, or 12 OLED panels).

 

The OLED panels used for the “Adjust” series emit warm-white light (3,000K) and features a high CRI of 90, a brightness level of 3,000 cd/m2, and a lifetime of 40,000 hours. The power consumption is 2.55W (150lm). These are 14×14 cm OLED panels with a 12.9×12.9 cm active area.

 

Given their features, it is assumed that LG Chem’s N6SC30, one of the company’s square type products, is used.

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Solution-processed OLED to be commercialized in years

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A solution-processable OLED technology is the one of its kinds that can RGB panels by using mother glasses for Gen 6 or later OLED panels. After some improvements are made to the properties of materials and definition, solution-processed OLED products will be manufactures in years to come.

 

So far, the existing solution process technology with a resolution of 200ppi could not be applied to smartphones and tablet PCs requiring a higher definition. With the development of the new technology that can feature a resolution of up to 300ppi, however, the solution process can become applied to tablet PCs with the potential for rapid growth.

 

In addition, it is possible that solution process technology is utilized to manufacture ultra HD 4K and even 8K (7680×4320) TV panels. The 65-inch 8K (7680×4320) panels are expected to feature a resolution of approximately 140 ppi. The manufacturing of panels that can produce an image of 200 ppi or higher will lead to the production of high-definition RGB LED TV panels.

 

Given that the 10.5-inch panels using the recently released AMOLED panels have a resolution of 287 ppi and use a Pentile layout, tablet PC panels with a RGB layout will be manufactured by using the solution process technology.

BMW’s Luxury Sedan, ‘BMW Vision Future Luxury’ is furnished with OLED at rear

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On the 11th, BMW Korea announced that the ‘BMW Vision Future Luxury’ was unveiled for the first time in the country as inviting 300 VIPs to the Yeongjongdo BMW Driving Center for 6 days from the 4th to 9th.

BMW Vision Future Luxury was introduced first time at the Beijing Auto Show this year and it was intended to be a concept car suggesting the direction of luxury sedan that BMW is pursing for a long time. It provides a whole new experience of luxury equipped with the qualities of intelligently lightened engineering, innovative interior design, and completely new user interface design.

Especially the L-shaped rear lights are applied with OLED lighting panel for the first time on a BMW which is much thinner and lighter than the existing LED and emits even light

SolMateS developed ITO deposition technology without damage

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The Dutch deposition equipment specialized company SolMateS unveiled the new OLED deposition process.

The newly developed deposition process by the SolMateS is a full transparent OLED called ‘soft-landing’ based on SolMateS’ pulsed laser deposition (PLD), which already obtained the patent. According to the SolMateS, the existing deposition technology like sputtering may cause damage to organic layers whereas the ‘soft-landing’ method enables to put an ITO thin layer on top of the OLED without damaging as it is proceeded in an even process temperature.

And recent test result shows not much difference in their functions between the OLED of 80% transparency and aluminum electrode OLED of no transparency. The ITO was deposited in the speed of sputter and PLD tool of 200mm is possible.

Arjen Janssens, the CEO of SolMateS mentioned that ‘PLD technology can be applied to various OLED applications using multiple transparency such as transparent lighting, display, smart window or top emitting OLED display, and it will be of great help for highly efficient organic solar cells.’

Established in 2006 in the Netherlands, the SolMateS is the deposition equipment supplier based on the laser deposition.

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Source – SolMateS

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UDC, OLED market awaiting to bloom

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On the 6th, Universal Display Corporation (UDC), the U.S panel company, announced on their website that the 3Q/2014 Performance Summary was released on 30th October.

The sales for the third quarter of 2014 is $32.9 million similar to $32.8 million which was the 3Q sales in the previous year. It is analyzed that the rise by a small margin is because the royalties and license fees were increased from $1.5 million in the third quarter of the last year to $5.4 million. In addition, another result includes the decrease of materials sales by 9% from $30.3 million to $27.5 million. It is considered that it fell due to the poor host materials sales. The business profit is $6.1 million, increased $1.9 million from the same period a year earlier.

The sales by the third quarter of 2014 is $134.9 million, increased by 39% as compared to the corresponding period last year. Though there is little demand for materials as the OLED industry is still in the preliminary stage, the UDC indicated on the report that there are variables to come. For that reason, the sales for this year is expected to be between $183 million and $185 million.

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Asus, Entering smart watch market with ZenWatch

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The foreign media ‘Techcrunch’ reported that Asus will release OLED equipped ZenWatch as of 9th November local time in the U.S at the price of $199.

According to the Japanese media on the 28th of last month, the Asus ZenWatch as a Google Android Wear device was announced to be launched toward the end of November in Japan. It is said that the ZenWatch and ZenFone5 will be released at the end of this month and the discounted price of 5,000 yen will be applied when purchased simultaneously. But the price of ZenWatch is 32,184 yen which is about $90 differ from the U.S release price.

ZenWatch is equipped with 1.63-inch and 320×320 AMOLED touch display. The detailed specifications include the Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 and 1.2GHz CPU, 512MB RAM and Bluetooth 4.0 function, and the battery function of Polymer 1.4Wh.

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Source – TechCrunch

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LGD, Plastic OLED Technology Announcement

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LG Display (LGD) is promoting actively as unveiling the plastic OLED technology applied to its own G Watch R.

It is published under the title ‘The New Advancement in Display technology: LG Display’s Plastic OLED’ on the LGD’s U.S Newsroom (http://lgdnewsroom.com/) and the contents are as follows.

 

The New Advancement in Display technology: LG Display’s Plastic OLED

What is Plastic OLED?

Plastic OLED is an OLED that is made out of plastic substrate. There are 4 very special key technologies applied to this OLED.

1) Plastic, not glass

LG Display has shattered the common belief that plastic cannot stand high temperatures, and developed plastic substrate (PI or polyimide) that remains stable under high temperatures and has chemical stability. Moreover, due to the development of the coating process of large format PI, it has become possible to manufacture PI film, which has enabled the plastic curving technology and the technology to eliminate unnecessary bubbles and foreign substances.

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2) LTPS(Low Temperature Poly Silicon) TFT(Thin Film Transistor) technology

One of POLED’s important features is that it can have thin bezel, since the fast electron mobility technology made the integration of different parts to be possible.

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3) Flexible Encapsulation Technology to protect OLED elements

With the technology to manufacture inorganic film that prevents water and organic film that prevents alien substances, plastic OLED guarantees the stability of OLED elements.

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4) Elimination of Carrier Glass using laser, and adhesionof Back Plate Film

The display surface is relatively clean and neat, as it prevents foreign substance from permeating the surface, by using Laser Source Uniformity technology, alien substance/crack prevention process technology, and flat-panel Back Plate Film and Film Lamination technology.

 

Why Plastic OLED?

1)Compared to currently existing displays, Plastic OLED has simpler structure. As it can be seen from the diagram below, LCD is composed of many layers of boards, while OLED’s structure is very simple.

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2)While glass displays are prone to breakage, Plastic OLED, which is film based, is flexible to be curved to a certain angle, and it does not break easily.

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3)Compared to LCD and glass OLED displays, Plastic OLED is thinner and lighter.

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The future of Plastic OLED

As Plastic OLED can be applied to curved displays that are bent to a certain curvature, it can be used in various ways, including electronic goods, such as mobile phones, monitors, and TV, as well as cars, wearable devices, and items for interior design.

Other than its design, Plastic OLED is valuable in terms of portability and durability as well. Hence, it seems that Plastic OLED will play an important role in people’s everyday lives in the future.

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The Plastic OLED’s potential is very promising. LG Display is devoting its energy and resources to respond quickly to fast growing market and consumers’ needs in order to develop Plastic OLED to become the key OLED application technology in the future.

 

Source – LG Display Newsroom

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Lenovo, impending release of Super AMOLED equipped smartphone

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The technology specialized media Gizmobic announced the impending release of Super AMOLED equipped smartphone by Lenovo.

According to the article, the price was set at 1,999 yuan (about $330) for the Lenovo Sisley S90 which resembles the look of the recently launched Apple iPhone 6. It appears quite similar to iPhone 6 from every angle except the front and back. Even it stands out as the image used for this smartphone bears the likeness to the presentation of Apple iPhone 6.

Lenovo Sisley S90 is precisely analogous to the iPhone 6 with the thickness of 6.9 mm and the weight of 129g. However, unlike the iPhone 6 equipped with 4.7-inch retina LCD display, the Sisley S90 used 5-inch Super AMOLED. So it is possible to realize the display of 100% color gamut and the contrast ratio of 30,000:1.

In addition, it is furnished with 2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410, Adreno 306 GPU, 1GB RAM, 16GB ROM, and the battery capacity of 2,300mAh.

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Source – Gizmobic

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LG’s OLED TV, selected as ‘the best TV’ of the year

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The OLED TV of LG Electronics was named as the ‘Best TV’ of the year.

The U.S based review media ‘Reviewed.com’ selected the LG’s 55EA9800 Curved OLED TV ($9,999) as the ‘Best of year’, announcing on their website. In the TV priced under $10,000 section, it received the highest point of 10.0 and also four of assessed OLED TVs scored the highest point as well.

Compared to the Samsung’s OLED TV KN55S9C, it was unable to improve the color production but it showed the color gamut of about 20% when using the displaying content. Furthermore, it was evaluated that the motion process was enhanced slightly.

LG’s OLED TV 55EA9800 was awarded the ‘Best Television of the Year’ and the ‘Best OLED TV of the Year’, and 55EA8800 earned the ‘Best Design of the Year’ by the Reviewed.com. And as the Smart TV+web OS obtains the ‘Best Smart TV Platform of the Year’, LG prepared a platform for the OLED era in the TV industry.

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Source – Reviewed.com

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