Plastic Logic, the OTFT backplane developer and EPD producer has split into two companies. Plastic Logic will remain as an EPD developer and producer (based in Dresden, Germany) while FlexEnable (based in Cambridge, UK) will handle the OTFT backplane development and offer technology licenses to display makers.

In 2014 Plastic Logic (in collaboration with Novaled) demonstrated a monochrome 4" 360x128 (95 PPI) flexible AMOLED prototype. This fully-organic AMOLED panel uses Plastic Logic's flexible OTFT backplane and the whole panel can be bent and rolled and still show the image.

The UK Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is going to establish a new National Centre for Healthcare Photonics. The Centre will open in 2017 and will enable companies of all sizes to develop related technologies and bring them to market.

Light can be used to diagnose and treat several medical conditions and illnesses. The UK believes this area offers a huge potential, with applications ranging from wound, skin and cancer care to niche applications in neurology and ophthalmology. The CPI hopes that OLED will be one of the technologies used in the new centre.

Samsung sent out invitations to a Galaxy Unpacked event on March 1st in Barcelona, where the company will likely unveil the next Galaxy device - the GS6.

The invitation seems to indicate a curved device - although it's not clear to me what kind of design is hinted at here. It's possible that Samsung will use a flexible OLED display curved on the edge - in a similar design to the Galaxy Note Edge shown below. According to some reports, the GS6 will sport a dual-edge display (the Note Edge is only curved on the right side).

LG launched its 65" 4K OLED TV (the 65EC9700) in the US in September 2014, but shipments have been very limited and even if you had $9,999 to spare, it was difficult to actually buy one. But now Amazon finally started shipping this high-end OLED TV. 

Konica Minolta recently started mass producing flexible OLED lighting panels, and the Japanese company now announced that it shipped 15,000 flexible OLEDs to a Japanese Tulips Festival - by far the largest OLED installation to date.

The OLED "Shining Tulip Festival" will take place at the Japanese Huisch Tembosch theme park, from February 14th to April 13th. Konica are making both white and color-tunable OLEDs, but it seems that this installation uses only white panels.

Today's personal OLED interview features Steffen Schmitz from Astron FIAMM. If you wish to be featured on such interview, contact us here.

Steffen Schmitz, Direct or Projects at Astron FIAMM Safety, project leader for all OLEDs for technical applications. Automotive, medical, airborne, train based. Basically all projects where the client doesn't only want some nice looking, flat light sources, but where the client expresses his needs as well in figures and measurement.