LG Display (LGD) is the world's second-largest OLED producer by revenue, and the company that turned OLED TVs from a prototype into an industry. It is also the only display maker with volume positions at both ends of the OLED market: large-area WOLED panels for TVs and monitors, and small and medium flexible AMOLEDs for smartphones, watches, tablets and cars.

After three years of heavy losses, a rights offering, a loan from its parent and the sale of its last large-area LCD fab, LG Display returned to an annual profit in 2025 - and in August 2026 it formally launched FLiPP, a maskless OLED production process that is its answer to the 8.6-Gen IT OLED fabs its rivals are building.

In this Spotlight we look at how LG Display got here, what it can actually produce today, where each of its OLED businesses stands, what the numbers say, and what we expect over the next three to five years. We also take a brief look at LG Electronics, LGD's parent and largest OLED TV customer.

Researchers from China's Northeast Normal University and Jilin Normal University have developed an ultrathin, skin-like transparent OLED. The 2.3 µm thick device transmits 80.7% of light (at 550 nm), which the researchers say is higher than any earlier flexible transparent OLED, and it can be laminated directly on skin.

To achieve this, the researchers redesigned both of the OLED's electrodes. The bottom anode uses microwave-welded silver nanowires embedded behind a smooth PEDOT:PSS conducting polymer layer, which keeps the wires from puncturing the organic layers. The top cathode is a 9 nm ytterbium-doped silver film on a lithium carbonate layer, capped with tantalum oxide to improve transparency. As both electrodes are almost equally transparent, the device emits light from both sides. Counting both sides, the green OLED reaches a peak current efficiency of 87.2 cd/A and an EQE of 24.9%.

Researchers from KAIST with colleagues from Hanbat National University, Kyung Hee University, and the Applied Surface Technology Ascend (ASTA) institute have developed a novel non-destructive methods to find the lifetime of blue phosphorescent OLED devices. This could lead to faster and cheaper way to design new PHOLED emitters, as there's no need for long age tests.

The researchers have demonstrated that the operational lifetime of blue phosphorescent OLEDs quantitatively correlates with the electroluminescence (EL) response under magnetic fields. This behavior is explained by a magneto-EL response function that reflects degradation-sensitive spin-pair kinetics under magnetic fields.

Huawei announced its new flagship Mate 90 smartphone family. All three phone models sport high-end LTPO AMOLED displays, produced by BOE. The two higher-end modules utilize BOE's latest tandem-stack OLEDs, achieving a peak brightness of 12,000 nits - to claim the world's brightest smartphone display ever.

We'll start with the standard Mate 90, that offers a 6.75" 120Hz 1280x2832 LTPO AMOLED, protected by Huawei's latest Kunlun Glass 3.

O-vision (Aoshi) Technology announced that it has received the permit from the local government of Zhejiang province, to go ahead with its plan to build its 12-inch OLED microdisplay fab in Hangzhou. O-Vision Aoshi will also build its new headquarters and a new R&D center in the same location.

In May this year, Aoshi Technology raised 100 million RMB (almost $15 million USD), in its Series B funding round. The funds will mostly be invested into the construction of its new fab, known as the K2 factory (not to be confused with BCDTek's K2 OLED microdisplay fab). The K2 will have a monthly capacity of 5,000 wafers, and Aoshi says it will enter mass production by the end of 2027. Aoshi currently operates a small-scale pilot line (K1) in Nanhai, Foshan.