LG Display showcased various AMOLED panels at the IMID 2009 and the FPD International 2009, expressing its clear intention to engage in AMOLED business.

Its most eye-catching panel was a 15-inch AMOLED panel which will be used in LG Electronics’ TV products later this year. LG Display emphasized that the TV equipped with its 15-inch AMOLED display is the largest-ever AMOLED TV introduced so far and is the first to be released since Sony’s 11-inch AMOLED TV.



                      [LG Display’s 15-inch AMOLED TV & its specification]


The company also exhibited a 15-inch RGBW AMOLED panel. In the existing R,G,B vapor deposition method for AMOLED, each of R, G, B is manufactured separately, allowing the optimization of color display and efficiency. However, the method has the disadvantage of using shadow mask for realizing R, G, B pixels, making it difficult to achieve high resolution and to be applicable to large-area panels. To solve these problems, the RGBW method using white light was used. The method does not require shadow mask so that a large-area OLED can be formed without the sagging of a mask plate of the shadow mask.



             [LG Display’s 15-inch RGBW AMOLED panel & its specification]

At FPD International 2009, LG Display showcased a 20.7-inch medical AMOLED panel for the first time. The panel features QSVGA (2560 x 2048) 5M pixel resolution and a contrast ratio of higher than 100,000:1, proving that it satisfied high resolution and high contrast ratio criteria required for medical display.

At the event, LG Display also displayed a 15-inch transparent AMOLED panel for the first time. According to the company, it is the first time that a transparent AMOLED panel with such a big size is exhibited although a number of small-size ones have been developed and displayed before. The panel has a 30 percent transparency and used the paste seal technology for encapsulation.

 
 
[LG Display’s 15-inch transparent AMOLED (left) and 20.7-inch medical AMOLED (right)]

As for small-sized panels, the firm displayed a 4.3-inch flexible AMOLED panel, a 4.3-inch AMOLED panel for mobile phones using image improvement technology, and a 2.7-inch AMOLED display for delta-structure digital cameras. LG Display reportedly plans to mass produce 4.3-inch and 2.7-inch AMOLED panels in the first half of next year.


          [LG Display’s 4.3-inch flexible AMOLED & its specification]