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LG Display, strategic partnership for OLED business with Japanese firm Idemitsu Kosan

2014年 12月 16日/0 コメント/カテゴリ: 発光材料 /作成者: OLEDNET

LG Display (CEO Sang-beom Han, 韓相範 / www.lgdisplay.com) and OLED materials firm Idemitsu Kosan (CEO 月岡隆, Takashi Tsukioka, hereinafter “Idemitsu”) entered into the agreement on the 11^th about the ‘mutual cooperation concerning OLED technology and related patent license’ to further strengthen their competitiveness in the OLED industry.

In 1997, Idemitsu developed what was then the world’s brightest blue light organic emitting material for OLED and since then, every effort has been made to develop high-tech OLED materials and diverse device technologies based on its own molecular design and organic synthesis technologies. Consequently, Idemitsu Kosan, the original OLED material technology firm of a top global level possesses numerous major patents in relation to the OLED technology.

Through this strategic partnership, LG Display will be accessible to the excellent OLED materials and device structures of the Idemitsu Kosan which will lead to consolidate the research, product development and production of the OLED for TV and flexible OLED, and this eventually will accelerate the expansion of OLED market. By providing high performance OLED materials to the LG Display and collaborating in terms of technology development and commercialization, Idemitsu Kosan is expected to secure leading global clients in the display field.

The industry prospects that the two companies have made a chance to perform sound leadership by maximizing the synergy in the OLED business through this partnership.

Sang-deok Yeo, president of LG Display OLED Business unit said that, “Through the latest partnership, LG Display is to gain momentum to create OLED TV market on the basis of the OLED related patents of Idemitsu Kosan as well as accelerate the developments of flexible and transparent OLEDs” and added that “This win-win collaborative relationship is expected to have a huge synergy effect on OLED business for both companies.”

LG Display wins 2014 Popular Science Innovation Awards

2014年 11月 28日/0 コメント/カテゴリ: ディスプレイ /作成者: OLEDNET

LG Display (CEO Han Sang-beom, 韓相範 / www.lgdisplay.com) announced that the world’s first 18-inch flexible OLED that they developed won the ‘Best of What’s New 2014’ by the Popular Science in July.

The world’s largest science magazine, the Popular Science annually announces the innovative technologies and products of the year since 1987, and LG Display’s 18-inch flexible OLED received high praise in that it has realized the next generation future display.

LG Display’s award received flexible OLED is the world’s biggest OLED with the specifics including 18-inch size, 100 mega pixel HD level resolution (1200 × 810) as well as a 30R radius of curvature, meaning it can be rolled up to a radius of 3cm without influencing the function of the display and the possibility to realize large area rollable TV over 50-inch.

For the moment, the Transparent Flexible Display (TFD) is part of the national project of the future industry leading technology development program (new market creation type) led by the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy and the Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology. LG Display is leading this project in the aim of developing transparent and rollable large display over 60-inch by 2017 in participation with total 36 agencies of Industry-University-Institute.

Source : LG Display

LG Display forecasts blooming of OLED TV market in 2015

2014年 7月 24日/0 コメント/カテゴリ: ディスプレイ /作成者: OLEDNET

OLED TV market is expected to begin flourishing from the end of 2015.

At the presentation of LG Display’s performance in Q2 held on 23rd at LG Twin-Tower, Yeouido, an executive director of strategic marketing group of LG Display (LGD), Youngkwon Song, emphasized, “LGD is putting efforts to realize the economy of scale and to cut cost including lowering material cost regarding the OLED TV business” and “a significant condition will be developed by the end of 2015 and early 2016.”

Mr. Don Kim, the CFO and a senior vice president of LGD said that “from our point of view on the OLED, the current levels of expected performance and yield rate are at satisfaible level, but innovation in pricing is what we concentrate more” and “by the end of 2015 or early 2016, when the operation is in full capa., we can reach the economy of scale and bring a significant performance.” Mr. Kim also hinted a soon-to-be bloomed of LGD’s OLED TV market.

LGD started supplying panels for the OLED TV to major Chinese TV set makers and plans to operate M2 line for mass-production in this third quarter. It also continuously leads the OLED market with scheduled launch of 55”/65”/77” curved UHD OLED TV.

In the meantime, sales for Q2 in 2014 was 5.979 trillion won which is declined by 9% from the Q2 in 2013 but increased by 7% from the Q1 in 2014. And operating profit was recorded surplus consecutively for nine quarters at 163.1 billion won.

LG Display successfully developed world’s first flexible and also transparent OLED.

2014年 7月 10日/0 コメント/カテゴリ: ディスプレイ /作成者: OLEDNET

LG Display succeeded in developing world’s first flexible and transparent OLED.
LG Display announced the technological development of world’s first 18-inch flexible OLED and transparent OLED of same size, disclosing at the ‘national project workshop for transparent flexible display development’ to be held from July 10 till July 11.
It is considered that LG Display secured the foundation technology for developing a large screen transparent flexible display through the simultaneous development of flexible and transparent OLED this time.
The flexible OLED that LG Display developed is 18-inch in size with HD resolution (1200 X 810) nearly 1 mega pixel quality, and this is the largest OLED in the world, realizing the radius of curvature of 30R. This means it can be rolled up to a radius of 3cm with no operational complications and implies that it is possible to implement a large panel rollable TV over 50 inches in the future.
In order to realize maximum radius of curvature even on 18-inch screen, LG Display used Polymide film of polymer materials on a substrate that TFT and organic matters are deposited, reducing the thickness and increasing flexibility drastically.
Furthermore, this concurrently developed transparent OLED is of same size and resolution as flexible OLED and the transparency is 30% or higher realized by self-developed transparent pixel design technology. It is a radical increase of transparency, given that transparency of existing LCD based transparent display is about 10% or so.
LG Display maximized the degree of completion by lowering the haze caused by circuit element and film down to 2%.
The transparent flexible display is a national project of the future industry-leading technology development program promoted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy and the Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology, and LG Display is the leading participants of total 36 organizations of industries, academies, and institutes, aiming to develop a large 60-inch transparent and flexible display by 2017.
According to In-Byung Kang, Senior Vice President and Head of the R&D Center at LG Display, “Pioneered OLED TV market, LG Display is leading future applied technology of OLED,” and “Though there still are many challenges to be resolved, we are confident in developing transparent flexible display of over the 60-inch screen UHD (Ultra High Definition) screen with transparency of 40% and a curvature radius of 100R by 2017.”

<source : LG Display>

Automobile Industry, will it be the foundation of OLED industry?

2014年 7月 4日/0 コメント/カテゴリ: ディスプレイ /作成者: OLEDNET

By Choong Hoon Yi

The use of OLED is now expected to be extended from interior light and rear lamp to display of automobiles.

According to the display industry, LG Display (LGD) is negotiating with German automakers for plastic OLED panel supply. LGD ranked 4^th in auto display market following Taiwanese Innolux, Japan Display and Sharp of Japan. It aims to take over the global market by reaching 1 billion dollars in sales based on the OLED display by 2016.

Most of major panel makers are currently focusing on leading the auto display market. At SID 2014, the major panel makers including Japan Display, Sharp, AUO and Tianma mainly showed displays for vehicles. LGD also reinforces targeting auto display market by integrating future technologies including transparent display. A fierce competition is ahead among major display companies.

The flexibility and durability; shock- and vibration-resistant, of the OLED as well as the fact that transparent display can be realized with it will accelerate its entry to the auto display market.

For auto rear lamp and interior light, the major OLED lighting panel makers including LG Chem. and Osram are developing the OLED and a new market is within the reach. If the OLED rapidly forms the auto display market, it will become a great cornerstone of the OLED industry along with mobile, TV and general lighting.

<Major OLED panel makers’ auto display, at SID2014>

LG Display’s winning move, OLED TV Price

2014年 6月 26日/0 コメント/カテゴリ: ディスプレイ /作成者: OLEDNET

LG Display (LGD) actively competes in TV market by reducing OLED TV price.

A department head Byeonggyu Roh of LGD emphasized “cost reduction of LGD’s OLED panel should be carried out across all processes and continued” and introduced its cost reduction strategy for the OLED panel for the 2^nd Annual OLED Workshop held on 24^th.

Key cost reduction strategy includes various ways such as investment cost reduction by rearranging the existing lines and modifying equipment; material cost reduction by optimizing the thickness of layers for TFT, the OLED and encapsulation; tact time improvement; and production efficiency increase by investing in M2 line. Also it was expected that soluble process will be the core technology for cost reduction in the future.

CEO of UBI Research, Choong Hoon Yi, said “LGD’s ultimate goal is to reduce the price by 1.1 times compare to LCD” and announced “cost down can be realized through reducing investment cost as 65” UHD OLED TV displayed at SID 2014 applied the existing co-planar to reduce from the previous 6mask to 4mask.”

LGD recently began supplying the OLED TV panel to China, and it plans to operate the M2 line in the latter half of this year. It also dropped the price of a 55” FHD curved OLED TV to $3,999 from the released price of $15,000 and a price war with the LCD TV is about to begin.

[SID 2014] Latecomers catching up aggressively

2014年 6月 11日/0 コメント/カテゴリ: ディスプレイ /作成者: OLEDNET

AMOLED latecomers; BOE, AUO and Tianma are rapidly catching up the AMOLED development of Samsung Display (SDC) and LG Display (LGD) at SID 2014.

BOE expressed possibility of investing in TV following mobiles by displaying 55” FHD AMOLED panel. In terms of technology readiness level, it is incompatibly lower than panels of LGD and SDC though, it is considerably fast that it was developed in six months and produced in a pilot line in Hefei.

AUO showed that its AMOLED technology had reached at certain level by unveiling 5.7” WQHD (513ppi) ultra-high resolution AMOLED panel. More attention drew towards AUO’s panel because its production method is RGB+FMM as SDC uses and the high resolution is realized with real RGB strip type rather pentile. AUO also expressed its will on AMOLED business by showing 5” HD flexible AMOLED panel and 1.6” AMOLED panel for a smart watch.

Tianma also unveiled 5.5” HD AMOLED panel. Its performance lags behind the current AMOLED panel, but it ai ms to supply middle-end and low-end panel targeting mass-production of 5.5” FHD AMOLED through continuous R&D.

Challenges of Chinese and Taiwanese makers become serious in the AMOLED market, where Korean makers, SDC and LGD, are dominant, and the latecomers are about to invest in the sector. Thus, it is expected that the AMOLED industry will constantly grow.

<BOE’s55ich FHD OLED panel>

<AUO’s 5.7inch FHD AMOLED panel>

<AUO’s 5inch HD flexible AMOLED panel>

<Tianma’s 5.5inch HD AMOLED panel>

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