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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.

OLED TVs - is there a path towards increased production capacity?

OLED TVs offer excellent image quality, outperforming LCDs with superb contrast, excellent and vivid color reproduction and fast refresh rates. In addition, OLEDs enable thin and efficient TVs. OLED TV production has been increasing up until a year ago, reaching a potential capacity of around 10 million units. This is impressive, but considering the entire global TV market that amounts to around 250 million units, OLEDs represent only around 2.5% of the total market (it is important to note that OLEDs tend to be produced in large sizes and carry a much higher average selling price compared to LCDs).

But OLED TV production capacity growth has declined in recent years. In this article we will shortly detail the history of OLED TV production, and look at potential paths towards increased penetration in the future. More details and into the future of OLED technologies and OLED TVs is included in the OLED Toolbox.

A bit of history: in 2013, both Samsung and LGD started producing OLED TV panels. Samsung chose the straightforward RGB side-by-side architecture, in which there are three sub-pixels, with red, green and blue OLED emitters. LG chose its own WRGB (or WOLED) architecture (the IP was acquired from Kodak in 2009) which uses four white OLED subpixels (made from yellow and blue OLED subpixels). Both companies released 55" FHD OLED TVs, priced at over $10,000 per unit. It soon became clear that Samsung's approach was not scalable, while LGD managed to enter mass production quickly and reduce prices dramatically within a few years to compete with the dominant LCD TV technology.

Read the full story Posted: Oct 04,2024

New OLED gadget: Motorola ThinkPhone 25

Motorola's ThinkPhone 25 is a business oriented smartphone with deep integration with Lenovo's laptops and Motorola's tablets. It offers a 6.36" 120Hz 3000 nits (peak) 1220x2670 pOLED display, a Mediatek Dimensity 7300 chipset, up to 12 GB of RAM, and up to 256 GB of storage.

The ThinkPhone 25 will ship in November 2024, starting at around $500.

Read the full story Posted: Oct 03,2024

Rain Technology launches its switchable OLED display privacy solution

Rain Technology announced a new technology, called OLED Switchable Privacy, that is designed to protect OLED displays. Rain Technology says that its privacy technology already shipped in millions of LCD laptops and other displays, and is now ready for OLED displays for the first time.

OLED Switchable Privacy is embedded in the display panel smartphones, tablets or laptops, directing and controlling light from the display, thus allowing enterprises, consumers and application developers to hone unprecedented levels of automated visual security. 

Read the full story Posted: Oct 03,2024

New OLED gadget: Sansui S55VOUG OLED TV

Sansui's Flagship 55-inch OLED TV (model S55VOUG) offers a 55-inch 120Hz 4K WOLED panel, Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos support, and AI-powered karaoke software, 2.1 channel 40 Watt subwoofer, and an ultra-thin 4.6 mm design.

Sansui's flagship TV will start shipping soon in the US for $799.

Read the full story Posted: Oct 03,2024

Researchers from Korea develop a new OLED intermediate layer material to improve the performance of blue phosphorescence OLED emitters

Researchers from Korea's UNIST institute, together with colleagues from Sungkyunkwan University have developed a new OLED intermediate layer material (with a highly unusual structure, twisted EBMs with anisotropic molecular arrangements) that significantly improves the brightness, efficiency and lifetime of blue phosphorescence OLED devices.

The researcher report that the new materials enable to reduce the operating voltage of the OLED display, thus enhancing the power efficiency by 24% and the operational stability by 21%. The researchers say that this new material can also be used for in-organic LEDs (including microLEDs).

Read the full story Posted: Oct 02,2024

New OLED gadget: Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus

Samsung latest Chromebook, the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus offers a 15.6" FHD AMOLED display, an Intel Core 3 100U chipset, 8 GB of RAM, and 256 GB of storage and a battery life of 13 hours. This is the thinnest and lightest Chromebook ever, at 1.17Kg and 11.8 mm.

The Galaxy Chromebook Plus will ship by the end of October 2024, for around $700.

Read the full story Posted: Oct 02,2024

New OLED gadget: Samsung Galaxy M55s

Samsung's Galaxy M55s smartphone offers a 6.7" 120Hz 1080x2400 Super AMOLED+ display (produced by SDC), a Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chipset, 8 GB of RAM, up to 256GB of storage, and a microSDXC cards lot.

The Galaxy M55s is now shipping in India starting at about $240.

Read the full story Posted: Oct 02,2024