A review of Samsung's W880 mobile phone:
The SCH-W880 is a Korean-market digital camera and a mobile phone in one featuring a 3.3" WVGA AMOLED touch display and a 12Mp camera with 3x optical zoom and HD video recording.
MIT professor Vladimir Bulovic explains how OLEDs work, and uses a pickle as a giant OLED pixel...
A researcher at Seoul-based Hyundai Security is saying that the global OLED market will reach 8B$ in 2012 and 17B$ in 2015. This means a 13-fold growth in six years, which is actually a faster growth rate than LCDs (which was 10-fold in 10 years).
They say that the vapor-deposition technology is 'quickly developing' which means that soon they'll be able to make large AMOLED panels.
DisplaySearch has released a new version of their quarterly 'OLED Shipment and Forecast report'. They say that world-wide OLED revenue has reached 192M$ in Q2 2009, which is a new record (up 32% from last quarter, and 22% from the same quarter last year).
Other findings and forecasts:
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Philips has displayed some new OLED lighting designs at the 100% design fair in London. There are also some new panel shapes in there. Here are a few photos and a video of the new OLEDs:
CrunchGear reports that the Zune HD is not readable in sunlight... and they have a picture showing how bad it is:
Just a couple of weeks ago we posted about direct-light issues with OLEDs. Even though we hear that the new OLED displays are better than older ones, they still appears to be very problematic in sunlight...
OSD displays has released a new 0.96" PM-OLED. The display has 2 areas: a 128x16 yellow section and a 128x48 light-blue section. The overall thickness is just 1.45mm.It's got a fast response time (
The PMOLED features a Solomon Systech driver IC. Typical power consumption: less than 150mW.
A couple of month ago, the Fraunhofer institute has shown their interactive data eyeglasses. These glasses include an OLED microdisplay on a CMOS chip that also includes an eye tracker. They now say that such devices could be ready within 2 years.
More information on the OLED device can be found here. Basically, the idea is a bi-directional OLED - which is a display and a camera in one chip. They put photo-diodes between the OLED pixels.
A few weeks ago, the CombOLED project (together with CEA-LETI, a French research laboratory) has announced a new efficient transparent white OLED. They have sent us a short video clip now of this display:
This is a Small-Molecule OLED, with a 5x5 cm2 active emitting area, which is deposited using thermal evaporation and encapsulated using ultra-thin layers. It's about 65%-70% transparent. More information on this panel can be found here.
Hopefully we'll be able to bring more information from CombOLED soon.
In June 2008, I interviewed Corey Hewitt and Dr. James Buntaine from Kodak OLED Systems.
Mr. Corey Hewitt is the co-general manager, operations manager and VP of Kodak OLED Systems. Dr. James Buntaine is the second co-general manager, and also the CTO and VP.
They were kind enough to send us an update on Kodak's OLED program and market outlook:
Kodak expertise and experience lies in material discovery, organic layer design, mechanistic understanding, image science, panel/module design, and manufacturing technology. These key value drivers associated with the Kodak technology, know-how and patents, maintain Kodak as an industry leader in enabling both the OLED flat-panel display and OLED solid-state lighting industries. Provided below are selected key areas technology and Kodak accomplishments:
