LG Chem.의 OLED lighting에 대한 적극적인 마케팅 활동이 계속되고 있다. 지난 8월 IVAAIU 시티 플래닝과 함께 리모델링한 한옥에 OLED lighting panel을 적용하였고, 이태원의 Marley coffee라는 카페에도 240개의 OLED lighting panel을 이용하여 나비모양의 조명을 공급했다. 이어 지난 9월에 오픈한 런던의 pop-up 레스토랑 Tincan에 원형 OLED lighting panel을 공급하였다. Tincan에 적용된 OLED 조명은 올해 초 LG Chem.에서 […]
LG Chem. continues its intense marketing activities for the OLED lighting. The OLED lighting panels were applied inside the Hanoak (traditional Korean house), remodeled with the IVAAIU City Planning last August, and the butterflied shaped lightings applying 240 OLED lighting panels were supplied to the caf? called Marley coffee in Itaewon. And the circular type […]
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…
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 …
OLED lighting panel의 수명이 LED(50,000시간 이상)와 비슷한 수준으로 향상되고 있다.
일본 NIKKEI에 따르면 Kaneka에서 수명 50,000시간의 OLED lighting panel을 개발했다고 보도했다. 8x8cm의 size에 1mm두께로서 일부 조명업체에 샘플출하를 시작하였고 개선된 …
Total eight companies announced the OLED TVs at the IFA 2014. The size ranged from 55-inch to 77-inch and six among those eight companies exhibited UHD resolution OLED TV…
Currently mass-producing flexible AMOLED panels are taking PI substrate, backplane, and RGB deposition method, and the existing encapsulation technologies for A2 line of Samsung Display is TFE …
As Apple announces the Apple watch on the 9th (local time), the battle of a smart watch began for electronic companies including Samsung, LG, Apple, Sony, Motorola, and even ASUS…
Apple이 9일(현지시간) Apple watch를 공개하면서, 삼성, LG, Apple, Sony, 모토로라, ASUS까지 유명 전자기기 업체의 본격적인 …
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,…
LG unveiled the smart watch LG G Watch R and 77-inch 4K OLED TV at the IFA…
Samsung Unpacked Event Episode 2 was held in three countries of Belin, Beijing and New York simultaneously on September 3. With a high anticipation of the world,
Current AMOLED panel market is mainly led by either Samsung Display or LG Display, mass producing the LTPS backplane for mobiles and Oxide backplane for TVs…
Touch Taiwan 2014 was held in Taipei, Taiwan from August 27 to 29 with 430 material and equipment businesses including AUO and Innolux which are representative panel makers of Taiwan. Announcing the company’s UHD curved LCD TV full lineup from 42-inch to 85-inch, public information display, displays of various applications, and high resolution LCD […]
At the keynote presentation given at the IMID 2014 held in EXCO, Daegu on the 27th, Park Dong-geun, the president of Samsung Display announced that the price of display decreases gradually and the color sense, curved design,…
LG Electronics unveiled the Ultra OLED TV on August 25 at the Conrad Hotel in Yoido where Ha Hyun-hwoi, president of Home Entertainment (HE) and Choi Sang-gyu, head of Korea sales and marketing at LG Electronics were in attendance. □ President Ha Hyun-hwoi announced a shift in generation “The Ultra OLED TV is an […]
At the comprehensive workshop of the 9th Display National R&D Investment Program held on August 20, KH Kim, executive director of Samsung Display
The premium smartphone ‘Galaxy Alpha’ released on 13th of this month is the first to feature the specialized design approach with a metal frame. According to the Samsung’s own website, the ‘Galaxy Alpha’ unveiled its new design approach applying metal frame material for solid finish. The grip is emphasized measuring at just 6.7mm thick and […]
According to an equipment report, “2014 AMOLED manufacturing Equipment Technology Analysis and Market Forecast (2015~2020),” published by a market research firm, UBI Research, the AMOLED manufacturing equipment market size will be about 36 trillion won from 2015 to 2020. Stepper appears to be the largest sector in the equipment market by forming about 10 trillion […]
As participation of Taiwanese and Chinese enterprises in OLED panel business, which is dominated by Korea, is taking place, the Japanese government begun its active involvement in the OLED business…
The Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ), JDI, Sony and Panasonic have finalized an agreement on JOLED establishment by January, 2015 through an integration of OLED panel R&D organizations owned by Sony and Panasonic for mass-production, development and early commercialization of the OLED panel. INCJ has 75% of JOLED’s voting rights. INCJ and JDI have […]
Everdisplay announced that it has become the first seller of AMOLED panel with sales of HD AMOLED panel on its homepage on July 23rd.
Dr. Taewon Kim’s team of photovoltaic energy convergence research group of Korean Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH, President Yong-Soo Lee) developed an original technology to refine organic light-emitting materials in bulk for fine OLED TV at low price.
OLED TV market is expected to begin flourishing from the end of 2015. …
Ctimes, a Chinese medium, reported that a Chinese smart phone maker, Gionee, will introduce an ultra-thin smart phone modeled GN9005.
According to CTIMES, a Taiwanese professional electronics industry medium, the OLED Lighting Commercialization Alliance (OLCA) was recently established for the development of the OLED lighting industry in Taiwan.
As major equipment companies publicly announced their contracts to supply manufacturing equipment for OLED to Samsung Display (SDC), it is expected that SDC will begin its investment in A3 line in full swing.
Sony displayed a system, which enables you to check endoscope video through Head Mounted Display (HMD) at International Modern Hospital Show 2014 held from July 16th to 18th, 2014.
Everdisplay is expected to start mass-production in the fourth quarter of 2014.
An event will be held to exchange information with experts from the world on OLED, which suggests new solutions lighting market and brings positive changes to a staggering display market with introduction of a flexible smartphone and a curved TV.
On 12 th, UBI Research, a market research and consulting firm specialized in the OLED, announced that it will host ‘the 2nd Annual Korea OLED Workshop’ at COEX conference room in Samsung-dong on June 24th.
Oculus, an American VR business, began shipment of the 2nd generation product, DK2.
LG Display succeeded in developing world’s first flexible and transparent OLED.
Fraunhofer FEP announced its merger with COMEDD, a research institute of Fraunhofer on July 5th.
The use of OLED is now expected to be extended from interior light and rear lamp to display of automobiles.
LG Electronics’ 77” UHD curved OLED TV displayed at CES 2014 attracted attention of many foreign visitors. …
A Taiwanese IT medium, Digitimes, reported that Universal Display Corporation (UDC) had announced its expanded evaluation agreement for PHOLED material supply to BOE.
Samsung Electronics announced Galaxy S5 mini, a new Galaxy series. Its design is similar to the previous model but not the specifications.
According to a Japanese media, Nikkei, organic device engineering professor Junji Kido of Yamagata University has developed a low-voltage blue phosphorescent material.
Set makers are launching various smart watch products such as Galaxy Gear and Gear Fit by Samsung and G-Watch by LG after the smart watch by Sony. …
UDC presented a paper on a new technology that reduces power consumption and increases lifespan than the existing RGB-FMM method at SID 2014. …
LG Display (LGD) actively competes in TV market by reducing OLED TV price. …
Galaxy Tap S, which applied Samsung Display’s (SDC) super AMOLED panel, recorded the highest score of Excellent A in the comprehensive evaluation by a professional display group in the U.S., DisplayMate. …
Samsung is preparing to introduce foldable AMOLED panel applied mobile product, and LG will release a new product with the flexible AMOLED panel in the latter half of this year.
As the flexible OLED commercializes, its R&D also accelerates. It was analyzed that the trend of papers published at SID 2014 is the flexible OLED as 9 more papers totaling 23 regarding the flexible OLED were published at SID 2014 than 14 papers 2013.
TalkBand, a band type wearable device released by Hauwei at MWC 2014 in the last February, is introduced on Amazon, a large online retailer.
One of the TalkBand’s strength is that it can be transformed into a Bluetooth earphone and that gave a title of the world’s first hybrid smart watch to the TalkBand. 1.4” Curved PMOLED by Futaba is applied to the TalkBand. It is expected to draw more customers’ attention by adding a health care feature (tracking calorie intake, sleep pattern and fitness).
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced its selection of nine (9) solid-state lighting (SSL) R&D projects. Four out nine projects are related to OLED lighting and selected companies/universities to run the projects are OLED Works, Pixelligent Technologies, Princeton University, and University of California. The project funding will be over $13.7 million (DOE funding, $10.5 million) and funding for each project was not revealed. It is expected that these one-to two-year projects will accelerate cost reduction of SSL technology and improvement of quality and performance.
Samsung Electronics (SSE) unveiled ‘Galaxy Tap S,’ which is the strategic premium tablet PC of SSE, at an event of ‘Galaxy Premiere 2014’ held in New York, U.S.A on 12th. Excellent color sensitivity of the ‘Galaxy Tap S’ panel was emphasized on the previously introduced teaser trailer with a copy of ‘Tab/Tap Into Color’ by applying AMOLED panel. Good color reproduction, high contrast and fast response speed as well as differentiated picture quality from the existing LCD panel are the strengths to be used to target the market.
Apple Inc. plans to release a new product, Smart Watch (iWatch) in October. According to Nihon Geizai Shimnun, iOS 8 combined iWatch will be on the market in this October and 3 to 5 million iWatches will be produced monthly. An IT specialized media, recode.net, also reported that ‘tentatively, Apple Inc. will host a special event in October and unveil a wearable device.’
At SID2014, it was proved that OLED lighting has competitiveness in terms of efficiency and can compete with LED for the general lighting.
Konica Minolta developed 131lm/W OLED lighting panel last March. It also released an OLED lighting panel with efficacy of 139lm/W at the SID 2014 and drew more attention. Panasonic also presented on OLED, and drew more attention unveiling a prototype in Author interview.
Samsung Display (SDC) unveiled AMOLED panels for 8” and 10” tablet PCs, which is known to be on the market by Samsung Electronics (SSE) from this July.
AMOLED latecomers; BOE, AUO and Tianma are rapidly catching up the AMOLED development of Samsung Display (SDC) and LG Display (LGD) at SID 2014.