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Plastic OLED의 향연

LG전자의 비밀 병기 G Flex2가 CES2015에서 전격 공개되었다. LG디스플레이에서 생산하는 plastic OLED로 만든 smart phone G Flex2는 2013년에 시판된…

Audi의 OLED 사랑

Audi의 OLED 사랑은 다른 자동차 업체에 비해 각별하다. Audi는 오래전부터 OLED 광원을 리어 램프에 사용한 컨셉카 Audi Q7을 공개한 바 있으며, 최근에는 컨셉카 Prologue에…

[Wearable Expo Japan 2015] A wearable to take over the future electronics industry

With increasing interests in wearable devices, the first Wearable Device Technology Expo 2015 was held on January 14, 2015 at the Tokyo Big Sight including the participating companies of the batteries and electric parts/materials such as a sensor, display, etc. which are to be used for wearable devices. The host announced that the event in 2016 will be about four times larger than this year proving the increased interests in associated industries and expected a drastic growth of the wearable device industry.

CURVED, the keyword for Samsung Electronics in 2015

The principal design for the TVs and monitors exhibited in the Samsung Electronics booth at CES 2015 can be summed up as ‘curved.’ Starting from the OLED TV at the TV market, the LCD TV also announced a variety of curved designs and bendable TV with adjustable curvature. Furthermore, Samsung Electronics presented 27inch and 34inch […]

Why Hybrid Encapsulation?

The latest trends in the display market can be represented with the keywords such as flexible, large panel and high resolution. And companies are releasing the products applying a flexible AMOLED panel like Galaxy Note Edge, Galaxy Gear S, and G Watch R and high-resolution products applying a large area panel such as UHD curved 65- and 77- inch in the AMOLED market. For Flexible AMOLED panel, foldable and rollable features are required whereas the resolution over UHD level and the brightness at least 500nit are required for a large area AMOLED panel.

[CES2015] Keyword for this event is “connectivity”

With only two more days left, CES 2015’s biggest concern can be characterized in one word “connectivity”” Until now, CES welcomed visitors with thousands of booths presenting a wide variety of electronics commensurate with the reputation of the event as the best electronics show in the world. The space connecting Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Sony, and Panasonic was the largest area occupying the event, devoted to hardware such as audio, cellphone, etc. besides TV

LG Chem. release 320x320mm OLED lighting and new application

The 320x320mm OLED light panel in LG Chem’s product portfolio in the world’s largest commercially available panel. The panel has an efficacy of 60lm/W, a high CRI (90) and is only 0.88mm thick. The output, which is similar to common 60-75 Watt incandescent lamp. This is significant because it marks the point where OLEDs will not only be seen as an energy-efficient and human friendly light source, but also come to be seen as a fit-for-purpose and proficient general purpose light source. The 320x320mm panel is now commercially available.

[Analyst Column] Watch issued for the promotion of QD-LED BLU LCD TV

Lately, the media, research institutes and stock firms are scrambling to release data on the marketability of QD-LCD TV which is the LCD TV applying the QD (quantum dot) materials to the LED backlight. In the strict sense, it is not a LCD technology but a backlight technology. The QD-LCD BLU (backlight unit) can be divided into the three types; one is applying the QD material directly to the LED chip, another is arranging it in front of the LED chip; and lastly it is placing it in between LCD and Light Guide Plate after filming by inserting the QD materials to the barrier film.

Samsung Display, to break through crisis with diversification of OLED customer!

Samsung Display is speeding up to be post-Samsung Electronics. The world’s sole OLED panel that Samsung Display manufactures is applied to most of the products by Samsung Electronics’ IM Division. Samsung Display expected to expand the OLED panel market as building the A2 line additionally in 2013 but the Smartphone Galaxy S5 did not measure up to the expectations resulting gradual decrease of factory operation rate a long with the sales.

Sony, unveiled a high-resolution single-lens OLED module

Sony developed a glasses-style smart device of a single-lens display module.    <Single-lens display module> Source: Sony <(top) sample field of vision, (bottom) module attached to eyewear piece> Source: Sony   This module was designed by Sony to be a small and light weight glasses-style composed of OLED microdisplay, micro-optical unit, and miniaturized control board. […]

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

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 11th about the ‘mutual cooperation concerning OLED technology and related patent license’ to further strengthen their competitiveness in the OLED industry

OLED TV, becomes the Quantum Dot TV just by placing a dot in the name?

For OLED TV, the technology name “OLED” makes it easier for a consumer to recognize the differences of TVs precisely as it uses the OLED panel which is a spontaneous emission method employed to realize brightness and color. In the beginning of last year, LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics made it clear that it is not LCD TV by literally using the term ‘OLED TV’ for the TVs manufactured using OLED panel. But for LED TV, it should be named as LCD TV adopting LED BLU. The LED TV is the one that controls light only with LED.

If the 600ppi Soluble process OLED is to be possible?

As a company producing ink-jet equipment for the soluble process OLED, Seiko Epson has already developed the ink-jet head which could realize up to 360ppi by arranging the 180ppi nozzles in 2 rows. Given that the resolution of the evaporation method RGB OLED is still in the 260ppi as a real RGB, it is a significantly useful technology in the development of high-resolution display.

[Analyst Column] G Watch R and Galaxy Gear S Structures and Disassembling Video

G Watch R and Galaxy Gear S by LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics respectively were disassembled to see their structures. First of all, much of the internal and external design concepts were quite similar. Claiming to be the classical sports type watch, the G Watch R is a smart watch emphasizing the sense of watch rather than its diverse smart functions while Galaxy Gear S was produced with a design of fashion watch. From dismantling both products, it was revealed that for G Watch R, the plastic OLED display which corresponds to the plate of watch is attached to the glass of the watch as shown by removing the back plate by unscrewing from the back side just like a regular watch and internal components, but for Galaxy Gear S, the flexible OLED panel was attached to the front side with adhesive so that the window detaches as applying heat to the front side.

eMagin, developed IHMD to lead the microdisplay market

The U.S based OLED microdisplay company eMagin released the development of the Immersive Head Mounted Display (IHMD) on the company’s website which is to be the next generation of microdisplay. This IHMD of eMagin is equipped with 2k by 2k high-resolution OLED microdisplay and patented optics compared to the bigger and lower resolution cell phone […]

LG Display wins 2014 Popular Science Innovation Awards

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 […]

Samsung, uncovered the Healthcare specialized smartwatch Simband

CNET reported on the release of Samsung’s wearable device the Simband at the Samsung Developer Conference held in San Francisco. The prior Simband launched early May of this year was not a smartwatch type but a health band design with the function focused on health tracking to collect vast amount of data for researchers or […]

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

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 […]

Solution-processed OLED to be commercialized in years

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.

[Analyst Column] Solution Process OLED to be released from 2016

The possibility to mass produce AMOLED panel in RGB structure by solution process was confirmed after the appearance of the solution process 4K OLED TV by Panasonic in 2013 and as AUO unveils the 65-inch FHD AMOLED panel at SID 2104 which uses hybrid process of employing inkjet printing method and deposition method simultaneously.

ETRI achieved the first international standard for OLED lighting

  – The world’s first OLED lighting international standard proposed by Korea – Promote OLED Industry by standardizing ‘Low Power’‘Eco-friendly’ OLED Lighting – Establish New Ecosystem for the Next Generation Lighting Industry, Take the lead of Creative Economy The grand achievement was made for the Korean researchers as the Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) lighting […]

Asus, Entering smart watch market with ZenWatch

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 […]

LGD, Plastic OLED Technology Announcement

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.

Lenovo, impending release of Super AMOLED equipped smartphone

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 […]

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

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 […]

Samsung, to open market for UHD panel for mobile device

Phonearena, a dedicated website providing smartphone related information, reported that Samsung will start mass production of 5.9-inch UHD Super AMOLED above 700ppi in August next year. The source of this news is not clear but at the last Analyst Days event, Samsung said that it is expected to produce UHD 2160×3840 AMOLED display in 2015. […]