OLED technology is based on organic semiconductors that are used to create beautiful, flexible and efficient display panels. OLED-Info, established in 2004, is the world's leading OLED industry portal - offering a range of services to the OLED industry including a web publication, newsletter, market insights, and marketing and business-development services.
This OLED-Info Pro Video Lecture, presented by Amorphyx and Ian Hendy, gives an introduction to display backplane technologies, discusses different technologies, and then deep-dives into the company's own oxide AMeTFT technology.
Ian discusses the process flow, the performance and power implications, the advantages over competing backplanes, the cost structure and more.
A few months ago we reported that Korean OLED equipment maker YAS has received orders for deposition equipment and evaporation sources from TCL CSOT, to be used at CSOT's 8.6-Gen inkjet IT AMOLED production line. The evaporation sources deal is estimated at 10 billion Won ($6.6 million USD).
It is now reported in Korea that YAS is running its Paju Fab 3 and Fab 4 at full capacity to produce the equipment for TCL CSOT. The company is planning a new (fifth) production line, in the case that it secures further orders this year. The new line will expand its equipment and component production capacity by 50% (by revenue, at least).
Value Electronics, an independent Audio/Video retailer in New York, hosted its well-respected annual TV Shootout Evaluation event a couple of days ago, bringing together several flagship TVs side-by-side to compare picture quality attributes. The TVs, which were professionally calibrated to their best potential, were reviewed by a panel of judges using test patterns.
The judges looked at six flagship displays. Three OLED models (Samsung's S95H, Sony's XR80M2 (also known as the Bravia 8 II) and LG's OLED G6), and three Micro-RGB LCD models (Samsung's R95H, Sony's XR90M2, and LG's MRGB95B). Judges evaluated picture quality attributes in SDR and HDR categories. Every display delivered outstanding performance, with exceptionally close results overall and across many of the individual picture quality attributes.
This is a sponsored post, by Sheldon Wayman, Product Manager – Thin Film Sensors, INFICON
OLED production lines are built to run continuously, and throughput is the number that determines line economics. Any interruption to deposition adds cost. Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) sensors are the critical components of rate and thickness control, but they share one practical limitation: crystals wear out and need replacing. In a high-volume OLED line, managing crystal changes without stopping production is a real engineering challenge with a direct impact on tool availability.
A standard single-crystal QCM sensor holds exactly one crystal at a time. When that crystal fails or reaches the end of its usable frequency range, the process has to stop, the chamber has to be vented, and the crystal has to be swapped before production can resume. In a lab or low-volume setting, that’s a manageable pause. On a production OLED line running multiple sources at once, a single crystal failure can shut down the entire process.
Samsung Display has begun to mass produce and supply tandem AMOLED panels for laptops that meet the newly-announced VESA DisplayHDR True Black 1400 certification.
SDC's new tandem AMOLED panels achieve a peak brightness of up to 1,600 nits, meeting the specifications of the new standard, that calls for black levels of 0.0005 nits or lower and a peak brightness of 1,400 nits at a 10% On Pixel Ratio (OPR).
Samsung Electronics unveiled a new technology that enhances the durability and reduces the crease in foldable OLED panels. The Flex Titanium technology integrates two titanium-based components, a titanium-alloy film and a titanium plate.
According to Samsung, these two components working together to balance slimness, flexibility and strength within the foldable display structure.
A few days ago we reported that TCL CSOT is launching commercial production of inkjet printed OLED panels at the company's 5.5-Gen line, and today two companies formally announced the first products to utilize these panels. This is an exciting moment for the OLED industry - we already had commercial inkjet production by JOLED years ago, but the company did not manage to reach full-scale production. Hopefully TCL CSOT with its T8 large-scale 8.6-Gen line will fare much better.
The first product is the premium MSI Pro Max OLED 271UPJW12, based on a 27" 4K (164 PPI) 120Hz and Real RGB Stripe side-by-side subpixel structure. The monitor integrates MSI's OLED Auto Care Compensation Technology, to mitigate burn-in.
