OLED history: A ‘guided tour’ of OLED highlights from invention to application - Page 0 | OLED-Info

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2012

January - LG and Samsung unveil 55" OLED TVs to be released in 2012
January - Samsung plans to invest $6.1 billion in OLED capacity expansion in 2012
January - Dupont build a $30 million OLED TV pilot production line
January - MicroOLED announces the world's highest density OLED microdisplay
February - AUO and Idemitsu Kosan to collaborate on OLED display technologies
February - Corning and Samsung form a new JV to produce Lotus OLED glass
February - LG Chem starts producing 45 lm/W OLED lighting panels
February - Konica Minolta developed a printed-electronics inkjet head, samples soon
Febraury - Samsung spins-off LCD division, will focus on OLED displays
March - Taiwan forms an AMOLED alliance
March - Novaled files for IPO, to raise $200 million
March - Sumitomo enters the PLED lighting market
April - AUO's Lextar shows their first OLED lighting panels
April - Philips announces the first 'Functional Lighting' OLED panel, 115 lm
April - Fraunhofer's transparent Tabola OLED lighting panels now shipping
April - AUO accelerates OLED production plans
April - OLED-Info releases the OLED Handbook, 2012 edition
May - Samsung launhces the Galaxy S3 with a 4.8" 1280x720 Super AMOLED HD display
May - Samsung and LG officialy launch their 55" OLED TVs
May - LG Display employees suspected of OLED technology theft from Samsung
June - Sony and Panasonic to co-develop technology to manufacture OLED TV panels
June - Corning unveils thin, flexible glass, suitable for flexible OLEDs
June - AUO still has technical issues, delays AMOLED production to Q3 2012
June - Samsung announced they produced over 200 million OLED panels since 2007
June - Sharp shows IGZO based OLED prototypes
July - Samsung Display starts conducting businesses, merges SMD and S-LCD
July - Korean project led by LG to make flexible and transparent 60" UHD OLED panels by 2017
July - UDC buys Fujifilm's OLED patents for $105 million
July - Samsung developed a 350 ppi OLED display using FMM
July - LG launches an OLED TV ad campaign
August - LG plans to start mass producing flexible OLED panels by the end of 2013
September - Samsung sues LG over OLED technology, LG countersues
November - Japan Display unveil their first OLED prototype, a 4.5-inch 326PPI WRGB panel, production planned for 2014
November - Colnatec's new OLED deposition sensor to dramatically change the economics of OLED manufacturing
December - OSRAM report advances with transparent OLED panels, production planned for 2014

2011

2010

January - Samsung's IceTouch is the world's first product with a transparent OLED
January - Sony want to make flexible OLEDs "as soon as possibe"
January - Lumiotec starts selling OLED Lighting panel samples
January - AUO to make small to medium sized OLEDs in 2011
February - Samsung announces the Super-AMOLED displays with integrated touch
February - Pioneer and Mitsubishi to co-develop and sale OLED lighting panels
February - Sony stops producing and marketing the XEL-1 OLED TV in Japan
February - LG's 15" OLED TV will be released in Europe in May for 1,999 euro
March - Novaled is working on OLED Lighting for a european car, expects it to enter the market by 2012
March - Microsoft expects most WP7 devices to use AMOLED displays
April - Samsung and LG commit to large OLED production investments
April - Ledon, Panasonic, Kaneka and Neoview-Kolon all unveil new OLED lighting prototypes
April - Dell and Nokia launch new AMOLED phones
May - Sony shows a 4.1" rollable paper-thin AMOLED display
May - Samsung committed $2.2 billion for new Gen 5.5 AMOLED plant
May - Samsung's AMOLED business is profitable, can't meet demand
May - Blackbody, Philips and WAC Lighting reveal OLED lamps
May - Dupont says they can print a 50" AMOLED in 2 minutes
June - China's first AMOLED pilot production line is ready
June - Samsung started constuction of their $2.2 billion 5.5-Gen AMOLED plant
June - MBraun says recent orders suggest customers are ready to launch OLED TVs in 2011
June - Visionox AMOLED pilot production line is complete
July - Samsung to double AMOLED's efficiency and lifetime
July - DisplaySearch expects at least 20 new AMOLED production lines in 3 years
July - GE and Konica-Minolta announce an efficiency breakthrough in roll-to-roll printable white OLEDs
July - Samsung plans to launch new AMOLEDs on a plastic substrate by 2012
July - LG plans a 5.5-Gen AMOLED plant in 2012 for 50" OLED TV panels
August - Shanghai Tianma to build a 4.5-Gen AMOLED pilot production line in a $72 million investment
August - LG officially shows a new 31" 3D OLED TV prototype, plans to release it in March 2011 for $9000
September - Mitsubishi starts selling Diamond Vision OLED 100"+ modular displays, and installs the first one at Merck's new research center
September - Nokia announces three new AMOLED phones and the new AMOLED-based ClearBlack Display
September - first review of Lumiotec's white OLED Lighting panels
October - The Fraunhofer announces the TABOLA OLED lighting panels, to ship transparent ones in Q1 2011
October - TDK shows flexible and transparent PMOLED protoypes
November - Samsung shows a remarkable flexible OLED
November - Samsung unveils 7" Super-AMOLED for next-gen Galaxy Tabs
November - Wintek to start mass-producing AMOLEDs in a $100 investment
November - Irico to invest $1.4 billion in AMOLED production plants
November - Lumiotec to start mass-producing OLED lighting panels in January 2011
December - Showa Denko to start making OLED lighting panels by 2015