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Samsung Display announced that it has commercial a new foldable OLED display that is the first to achieve a curvature radius of 1.4R mm. This display will be adopted in Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold2 5G (7.6" 1768x2208 HDR10+ 120Hz Dynamic AMOLED) with an Ultra-Thin Glass (UTG) cover glass.

Samsung says that in order to minimize the folding stress that is increased in such a small folding radius, the company has optimized a series of technologies related to the material of the display, the panel design and the module assembly, so that the multi-layered structure will function like a cushion when the panel is folded.

US-based stable isotopes and compound producer Cambridge Isotope Laboratories announced that it is expanding its deuterated benzene capacity at the company's production plant in Xenia, Ohio.

CIL says its Xenia expansion will increase its deuterated benzene capacity six times. Bromobenzene-d5 is used in the production of OLED displays (among other uses) and CIL reports increase demand for this material which initiated the capacity expansion project and investment.

The US government imposed sanctions against Huawei, which prevents the Chinese company to acquire components that use US-developed chips. According to a display from Korea, both Samsung Display and LG Display will have to stop supplying OLED displays to Huawei as these use drivers that are based US-developed technology.

Samsung Display has applied for a US US Department of Commerce license which will allow it to export the technology to Huawei. LG Display decided not to apply for the license, at least for now, as its OLED sales to Huawei are limited in any case.

In 2018 Merck opened an OLED technology center in Shanghai, that includes laboratories to enable device fabrication and characterization for local Chinese-based OLED customers.

It is now reported that Merck is investing $26 million to expand the OLED laboratories and build an OLED material plant in the area. The new plant will start production by the end of 2022.