Global OLED emitter developers: comprehensive analysis

OLED emitters are the key component of any OLED display, as these materials are responsible for the actual light emission. As the OLED industry grew to around $50 billion in yearly revenues, OLED emitter suppliers have enjoyed a growth in demand, and this resulted in increased R&D towards higher performance materials.

Most people will associate the OLED emitter market with Universal Display, and indeed the company is almost a monopoly in commercial phosphorescence OLEDs, both red and green. 

But there's more to the OLED emitter market than just UDC. While the OLED emitter materials market is indeed highly concentrated, with a few key players dominating specific technology segments, there are over a dozen companies, in Japan, Korea, China, the EU, and the US, that develop and produce OLED emitters, based on several different material platforms. In the future, the industry may shape up quite differently that it is today.

In this article we look into the global OLED emitter industry, estimate the market and its future growth, and identify all the relevant material developers (over 25 companies, including early stage companies, pure-play OLED material makers, and large chemical makers, in all major geographies). We also list major OLED host producers, as these materials are highly connected to the OLED emitter in the OLED device stack, and in many times there is confusion regarding the host producer and the actual emitter producer.