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Google announced its 2026 Google Pixel 11 smartphone family, with four different models, all based on high-end LTPO AMOLED displays.
We'll begin with the Google Pixel 11, that has a 6.3" 1080x2424 1-120Hz 3,000 nits (peak) LTPO AMOLED. The Google Pixel 11 Pro has a similar display, but with higher brightness (3,600 nits).
Counterpoint says that global TV shipments decreased 4% in June 2026 (compared to June 2025), bringing the second quarter (Q2 2026) shipments down 0.4% from Q2 2025.
Against that market, OLED TV shipments actually grew 12% in June 2026, and 20% for the whole second quarter, led by LG Electronics. LG Display, the main OLED TV panel supplier, is now looking to increase the market share of OLED TVs, developing lower cost panels (including WOLED SE, and 2-stack tandems).
Researchers from Korea's POSTECH institute have developed a new technology that enhances the performance of metalens arrays (MLA) that both improve the performance, and also lowers the production cost.
The researchers say that the main challenge with current MLA solutions is achieving high chromatic aberration performance using a low-refractive-index materials. To solve this problem, the researcher propose adding a new level of control, the height of the nano-pillars (or meta-atoms) that form the metalens.
For its 2026 new device lineup, Apple has decided to rely exclusively on OLED panels produced by Samsung Display and LG Display. This has been a setback for BOE , that hoped to enter the supply chain. But it seems as if Apple did not want to take this change, following BEO's consistent quality and production issues.
But BOE is not giving up, and a new report from Korea suggests that BOE is developing OLED tablet panels, hoping to enter Apple's supply chain for the 2027 iPad Air, that will utilize an AMOLED display. Apple has already selected Samsung Display as its main supplier for these OLED iPad Air panels, but BOE wishes to become Apple's second supplier.
Xiaomi launched two smartphones yesterday, the Redmi K100 Pro and the Redmi K100 Pro Max. The K100 Pro features a 6.59" 185Hz 4,500 nits (peak) 1156x2510 full-RGB AMOLED display, while the K100 Pro Max increases the display size to 6.9", with a 1200x2608 resolution.
Xiaomi says that this is the first smartphone to utilize its new self-developed green pTSF emitter system. The company says it developed this new emitter system in collaboration with researchers at Tsinghua University. It is likely that the actual panel producer is Visionox - that also has strong ties to Tsinghua University (as it was founded as a University spinoff back in 2001), and Visionox indeed started producing commercial OLED displays with green pTSF OLED emitter systems earlier this year.
This is the second article in Bright Side with Brannan, a column by Prof. Alexander Brannan of the University of Manchester. In this column, Prof. Brannan explores the science behind OLED technology — the materials, the physics, and the open questions driving the field forward. You can read the first article in the series, on open-shell radical emitters, here.
In my previous article on radical OLED emitters, I briefly mentioned circularly polarised luminescence, or CPL, as an emerging direction for TTM-based materials.[1] Since then, the first CP-OLEDs based on donor–acceptor-type neutral TTM radicals have been reported, with gEL reaching 7.2 × 10−3.[2] This shows that the area is continuing to grow, but what does that value actually mean for an OLED display? As CPL appears increasingly often in emitter research and OLED-Info coverage, I wanted to give a simple overview of why it is attracting interest, how researchers are trying to produce it, and where it may realistically be useful.
Light consists of oscillating electric and magnetic fields, but polarisation is usually described using the electric field. In unpolarised light, this field has no fixed orientation. A linear polariser selects one direction, while a correctly aligned quarter-wave plate changes this back-and-forth motion into a rotating electric field. This produces circularly polarised light, often pictured as a left- or right-handed corkscrew. CPL can also be generated directly by a chiral emitting material or organised chiral system, without requiring these external optical components.[3]
