A few days ago we reported that RiTDisplay consider a withdrawal from OLED production. We just got word from RiTDisplay themselves saying that they still make OLEDs, and do not plan to stop.
RiTDisplay are the world's largest PMOLED maker, with over $100 million in revenue from PMOLEDs in 2009. So that's good news!
Universal Display announced that they delivered eight wrist-mounted OLED displays to the US Army. Those 4.3" QVGA full-color displays are based on UDC's phosphorescent OLED materials and are built on thin flexible metal foil. The backplane is an amorphous-Silicon (a-Si) TFT, fabricated by LG Display. The displays were designed by L-3 Display systems and "offer various advanced communications features, all integrated into a thin and rugged housing that comfortably fits around a soldier’s wrist".
These prototype were built as part of a US Department of Defense (DOD) funded program.
Samsung will start offering Galaxy S phones in Japan in late October. They also say that they have sold over five million units so far: more than 2 million in the US, and 1 million in South Korea. The Galaxy-S has a 1 Ghz processor and a large 4" Super-AMOLED display.
Samsung Galaxy S
AT&T has just announced a new phone by Pantech called the Pantech Laser. It has a 3.1" AMOLED. This is interesting as Pantech decided in August to stop using AMOLEDs and use LCDs instead - until the supply issues are fixed.
Beside the AMOLED, the laser has a 3mp camera, and AT&T says that it's the "thinnest QWERTY slider on the market". The Laser will launch on October 17th for $99.99 (after a $50 rebate and a 2-year contract).
Two days ago we reported about a new OLED lamp design by D Signed, called Lamped. The OLED panels were made by the Fraunhofer Institute. Irena Kilibarda (the designer behind the lamp) sent us the technical details.
The OLED panels are 106x50mm in size, with a 91.6x41.6mm active area. The brightness is 1000 cd/m2, the color is 2900K (soft white). On the foot of the lamp (that is made of molded stainless steel and is heavier than the rest of the lamp) there are dimmer controls.
Rohm is showing a new OLED microdisplay at CEATEC. Unfortunately we do not have any information yet... beside a nice photo:
Back in 2007, Rohm unveiled a color OLED microdisplay prototype with 320x240 resolution, and said they were working on a 640x480 pixel one. We're guessing the new microdisplay has a higher resolution than that...
Mitsubishi is showing their new Diamond Vision OLED modular screen at CEATEC. It seems that a 150" screen costs $400,000. Mitsubishi says that they can provide the display at "unlimited" size, and it can be delivered in a curved design. Check out this great video:
The Diamond Vision OLED is already shipping, and Mitsubishi has installed the first screen over at Merck's new Material Research Center in Darmstadt, Germany.
A few days ago we reported about rumors that Samsung have sold all their Super-AMOLED capacity to Apple, and will switch to LCDs in their Galaxy-S and Wave phones. Today we hear that the Wave II phone will indeed use a Super-LCD screen (3.7") instead of the Super-AMOLED used in the original Wave.
Update: We also found a video of TDK's transparent PMOLED, see below
Yesterday we reported about TDK's new 3.5" (256x64) flexible PMOLED panels. Today we found a new short video showing the color one:
TDK says that the contrast, brightness and lifetime are "almost the same
as TDK's existing glass-subtrate PMOLEDs". The OLED inside is a white
emitter, with RGB-color filters. TDK will start mass production at the
end of 2011. Here's a video of TDK's transparent PMOLED, also announced yesterday:
Roth & Rau MicroSystems will partner with the Holst Centre on barriers for flexible electronics. The two companies will develop and install a roll-to-roll PECVD deposition tool in the Holst Centre. This will be used for flexible OLED lighting and organic solar cells.
