In 2022 Panasonic Avionics launched its Astrova aircraft internal entertainment platform that is based on 13-, 16- and 22-inch 4K OLED screens. The company is now adding larger OLED screens to the Astrova lineup.

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The new OLED displays, aimed for business-class and first-class cabins, will be available in five sizes 19, 22, 27, 32, and 42 inches. Beyond the increased performance, Astova also offers significant weight savings compared to other seat-end architectures.

The display industry's top conference, SID DisplayWeek 2023 took place at the end of May in Los Angeles. The event was interesting, and fruitful - and it was exciting to be able to travel to display trade shows again after several years. Display Week made it clear that OLED is the technology of choice for almost all high-end and medium-range applications. Next-generation technologies, mostly microLEDs, were also very prominent. Here's a list of all our articles from SID:

• Samsung Display shows its latest flexible OLEDs and unveils the OLED Sensor Display 
• Samsung Display shows its latest QD-OLED displays at Display Week 2023
• LG Display shows new OLED display prototypes at Display Week 2023
• LG Display demonstrates its stretchable 12" microLED touch display prototype
• TCL CSoT shows new foldable and rollable inkjet-printed OLED prototypes
• TCL CSoT shows a tiled 18.8" microLED display prototype
• AUO shows foldable, transparent and automotive microLED displays
• PlayNitride showcases its latest microLED displays at Display Week 2023
• Tianma shows three transparent microLED display prototypes at Display Week 2023
• BOE demonstrates a 4.7" high-resolution AMQLED prototype at Display Week 2023
• BOE developed a 1.3" 4K OLED microdisplay, hopes to supply it to Apple's future VR HMDs 
• BOE demonstrates a 15" rollable OLED display
• Visionox shows its latest OLED prototypes and technologies 
• Innolux shows new microLED display prototypes at Display Week 2023 
• Seoul Semiconductor unveils new vertically-stacked WICOP microLED prototypes
• Qingyue shows new transparent PMOLED displays and OLED microdisplays
• The Fraunhofer FEP showcases its latest OLED microdisplays at Display Week 2023
• Sitan shows its latest microLED microdisplays and transparent displays
• Sinovia demonstrates its roll-to-roll printed OLEDs at Display Week 2023
• Display Week 2023 - first impressions

According to reports from Korea, Hyundai Motor decided to adopt Samsung Display's 25" AMOLED displays in its next-generation Genesis car, a horizontal dashboard display.

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Samsung already supplies AMOLED displays for Hyundai's Ioniq 5 (digital side mirrors), but this is the company's first design win for Genesis.

A few months ago we reported on research conducted at Germany's Max Planck Institute, led by Prof. Paul W.M. Blom, that looks into single-layer OLED devices. In such devices, a single TADF OLED emitter layer is sandwiched between two electrode - a much simpler design compared to commercial OLED devices that use multilayer stacks, sometimes with 10 or more layers.

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The researchers the the MPI say that in fact it is possible to develop highly efficient OLEDs with just the TADF emitter, as there's no fundamental reason or major benefits that arise from multilayer OLEDs. The researchers continue their work, and now they have developed a new single-layer blue OLED in which every injected electron is converted into a photon - or 100% IQE. This is the first time that such a single-layer OLED device was demonstrated (see image above).