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2015년 삼성전자의 키워드는 CURVED

CES2015에서 삼성전자 부스에 전시된 TV와 모니터 디자인은 curved였다. 이미 TV 시장에서 OLED TV를 시작으로 LCD TV도 다양한 curved 디자인과 화면 곡률을 조절 할 수 있는…

[CES2015] Samsung’s love for OLED is at cross with that of LG

OLED is the only electronic appliance made in Korea which is commensurate with the modifiers such as the world’s first, best and most. It is even dominate not by one but by two major companies in both mobile device and TV categories, contending for supremacy in the flexible (plastic) device area as well.

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

왜 Hybrid Encapsulation인가?

Hybrid Encapsulation은 passivation 박막과 gas barrier 특성이 있는 cover plate, passivation 박막과 cover plate를 접착시키는 고분자로 구성되어 있으며,…

[CES2015] Samsung, the hero of INNOVQTION AWARDS!

The core products of the 2015 exhibition were released at the CES Unveiled event including various mobile devices equipped with different high-tech sensors like a drone. The 20 most innovative products selected by the CES were awarded at this event.

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.

[CES2015]LG Press Conference Highlight

Tim Alessi, director of new product development at LG Electronics USA, unveils LG’s new 77″ Flexible 4K OLED TV during a news conference at the 2015 International CES on Monday, Jan. 5, 2015, in Las Vegas.

[CES2015] 삼성, 이 없으면 잇몸으로

불과 2년전만 해도 CES와 IFA에서 삼성은 OLED 그 자체였다. OLED 패널과 OLED가 들어 있는 smart phone을 대량으로 생산할 수 있는 이름은 오직 삼성만이 존재했기 때문에…

[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 ‘OLED TV’, received ‘CES Innovation award for three consecutive years

LG Electronics won the ‘CES 2015’ Innovation Award for the ‘flexible OLED TV’ and ‘G3’. So this marks the third year in a row that LG’s ‘OLED TV’ and ‘G Series’ have earned CES Innovation Awards. These products have never lost the CES Innovation Awards since their release in 2012. For the ‘CES 2013’, ‘flat […]

Display for the Color Deficient Person, Vision Aid

At the nation’s largest display exhibition IMID which was held in October at the KINTEX, Ilsan, the latest display products received great attentions including the Samsung Display’s curved UHD TV, Galaxy Note Edge curved edge display, etc.

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 […]

SolMateS developed ITO deposition technology without damage

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),

UDC, OLED market awaiting to bloom

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.

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. […]

Solution Processing OLED Era is coming

At the International Workshop on Flexible & Printable Electronics, IWFPE held in Jeonju, Konica-Minolta and DuPont presented diverse technologies that converts the OLED production process

SEL, ceaseless efforts to develop AMOLED

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

LG Display, OLED will continue next year

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.

LG Chem., 런던의 레스토랑 Tincan에 OLED lighting panel 공급

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., provide OLED lighting panel illuminate Tincan, the restaurant in London

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 […]

OLED lighting panel 수명, LED에 도달

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 …

OLED TV, still the TV of the future?

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…

AUO, to focus on flexible AMOLED

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 […]

Samsung to decide, OLED or 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 to release the world’s first ‘Ultra OLED TV’

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 […]

Samsung Electronics Released the ‘Galaxy Alpha’ Smartphone Equipped with Metal Frame

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 […]

AMOLED manufacturing equipment market, expected to be about 36 trillion won from 2015 to 2020

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 […]

Who has a key to OLED, JDI or JOLED?

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…

JOLED, the last bastion of Japanese OLED

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 […]

Taiwan grows OLED lighting industry

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.

Will Everdisplay be the first small and medium AMOLED panel maker in China?

Everdisplay is expected to start mass-production in the fourth quarter of 2014.

UBI Research, Hosting International OLED Workshop

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.