Taiwan OLED industry

A group of five Universities from Japan and Taiwan have launched a joint project to develop core technologies for circularly-polarized OLEDs (CP-OLED). These kind of OLEDs natively emit circularly polarized light, enabling higher-performance devices, and are of high interest to the research community (see the recent Bright Side with Brannan report on CP-OLEDs).

The research project is led by Kindai University and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), and also includes Ibaraki University, Osaka Metropolitan University, and National Central University (NCU). The joint project is supported by the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association, under the Joint Research Grant Program in Natural and Applied Sciences. 

Taiwan-based OLED microdisplay developer INT-Tech announced that it has developed a native RGB (direct-emission) full-color OLED microdisplay, that achieves up to 150,000 nits of brightness, breaking its own record of a 100,000 nits microdisplay unveiled in December 2025.

The company demonstrated two panels that achieve this high brightness: 0.39" XGA and 0.25" VGA. You can find more information about these displays here.

US-based Neolayer LLC has filed lawsuits against both Samsung Electronics, and Asus, claiming that the two companies infringe upon some of its OLED patents.

Both lawsuits were filed on December 31, in Texas Eastern District Court, and both allege infringement of six patents related to OLED displays and semiconductor structures (backplane technology).

Taiwan-based OLED microdisplay developer INT-Tech announced that it has developed a native RGB (direct-emission) OLED microdisplay, that achieves up to 100,000 nits of brightness, breaking its own record of a 60,000 nits microdisplay unveiled in April 2025.

INT Tech says that beyond this record-setting brightness (which is around 10X brighter compared to any commercial OLED microdisplay today), the new display offers excellent white balance, color gamut and power efficiency. We detail the technology and display specification below. 

Exactly one year ago in December 2024, Japan Display announced a strategic partnership with Taiwan-based Innolux and CarUX (Innolux's automotive display company) to bring eLEAP OLED displays to the automotive market. 

Today Innolux's CEO announced that this strategic partnership has been terminated. Innolux explains that the two companies, even after many discussions and plans, have failed to reach a commercial agreement.

OLED technology has transformed the display industry, enabling thinner, lighter, efficient and flexible displays, with superb image quality than ever before. The journey from laboratory discovery to mass-market dominance is marked by a series of pivotal moments. Here, we explore five of the most significant milestones that shaped the OLED landscape, followed by a look at other critical achievements and what the future may hold for the OLED industry and market.

1. The original Kodak OLED moment (1987)

The story of OLED began in 1987 at Eastman Kodak, where Ching Tang and Steven Van Slyke built the first operational OLED device. Their breakthrough combined modern thin-film deposition techniques with suitable organic materials to create a double-layer OLED that could emit light efficiently at low voltages. This foundational work proved that organic materials could be used to make practical light-emitting devices and laid the groundwork for decades of innovation. Kodak continued to develop OLED technologies, until it sold its entire OLED IP to LG for $100 million in 2009.

2. The invention of PHOLEDs and the founding of Universal Display Corporation (UDC, 1994-1998)

While early OLEDs used fluorescent emitters, the next major leap was the development of phosphorescent OLEDs (PHOLEDs). PHOLEDs, pioneered by researchers at Princeton University and the University of Southern California (and commercialized by Universal Display Corporation, founded in 1994), dramatically improved efficiency by allowing nearly 100% internal quantum efficiency, compared to about 25% for fluorescent OLEDs. This efficiency gain was crucial for battery-powered devices and large-area displays.

Notion Systems is proud to present the n.jet EHD printing system featuring Scrona's latest GEN3 EHD technology at the opening of SCRONA’s Taiwan Application Lab in Kaohsiung. The MEMS-based multi-nozzle EHD printheads are now available for feasibility testing and application development for customers in Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific region.

A big thank you to the Taiwan team at Electroninks Incorporated for their warm welcome and excellent support during the installation of the tool. Appreciation also goes out to all the visitors who came to see the system for the first time.

Notion Systems looks forward to establishing new collaborations and bringing this technology to various applications in the Taiwanese and Asian microelectronics supply chain.
 

Touch Taiwan, one the world's leading display conferences, will take place next week in Taipei. The OLED-Info team will attend this year's event, and we're looking forward to seeing new display technologies, products and demonstrators and meeting up with industry leaders!

We'll be happy to schedule meetings - so if you plan to come to the event, do contact us and we will be happy to schedule a meeting. We're really looking forward to this event, to meeting our display industry friends, and to host the special MicroLED Association dinner meeting.