LG Electronics leading OLED TV camp to premium sensation
LG Electronics is expanding its OLED TV camp to dominate the premium market. LG Electronics decided to supply OLED TV since September to Danish prestigious audio company B & O (Bang & Olufsen), making a fruitful result of OLED TV expansion.
Merck, presenting OLED materials for future cars at Frankfurt Motor Show
Merck announced that it will exhibit automotive OLED tail lamp materials for the first time at the IAA (International Motor Show) 2017 in Frankfurt, Germany.
iMiD 2017 Industrial Forum, a networking event to predict the next generation OLED market
■ “Finding a new OLED market” – Discussing OLED replacement in view of OLED application development ■ Discussing new technologies of future display (LCD, QD-LCD, OLED)
2Q OLED panel shipments, continued to rise
According to Ubi Research, OLED panel shipments for smartphones in the second quarter of 2017 were 96.3 million units, up 2.6% from 92.9 million units in the same period last year.
LG OLED TV, Has Won the ‘EISA Awards’ 6 Years Straight
On August 15th, LG Electronics’ premium TVs including OLED TV received EISA’s most prestigious award in Europe.
Stretchable OLED commercialization is on the rise
Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics have steadily been releasing smartphones and smart watches using flexible OLED since 2013, and electronics companies in China have begun to put out one of them.
UDC, whose total revenue increases by 59% in Q2 2017 with royalty and license fees
UDC(Universal Display Corporation) has announced the financial performance of the 2nd quarter of 2017 as of Aug 3rd.
LG Electronics, watching bigger and clearer on ‘OLED FullVision’
LG Electronics will have a strategic premium smartphone equipped with OLED in the 2nd half this year.
Truly and FlexEnable sign License Agreement to bring low-cost, scalable flexible display production to China
31 July 2017 – FlexEnable, the leader in the development and industrialization of organic electronics for flexible displays and sensors, has signed a technology transfer and license agreement with Truly Semiconductors, one of the leading display makers in China.
OLED Encapsulation, TFE is the Top Trend
According to 2017 OLED Encapsulation Annual Report published by UBI Research, of OLED encapsulation technology, TFE (thin film encapsulation) will be applied to approximately 70% of total OLED panel in 2021, and become the key encapsulation technology.
LG Electronics, “Sales of the Premium TV in 2017 would hold 60%”
LG Electronics spoke that “The portion of premium TVs in total TV sales will be increased from about 40% in 2016 to around 50% in first half of 2017 and up to 60% in the end of this year.” at the conference call in Q2 2017, which was held on 27th.
Samsung Electronics’ Display Business Recorded Operating Profit of 1.71 Trillion KRW in Q2, 2017
Samsung Electronics announced that it reached sales of 61 trillion Korean won and operating profit of 14.07 trillion Korean won, and the display business recorded 7.71 trillion won and operating profit of 1.71 trillion won, through the Q2 2017 Earnings Conference Call on 27th.
LG Display, Expects 40% of OLED out of total sales in 2020.
LG Display spoke that they plan to change the sales structure by focusing on the OLED sales at the conference call in Q2, 2017 which was held on 26 July, and they expected that the OLED sales portion among the total sales would be from 10% in this year to 40% in 2020.
What is the next-generation display poised to outshine OLED?
The micro LED, QLED and hologram, which are referred to as the next generation displays, were presented at the seminar entitled ‘Recent Trends in Display and Vehicle Display Technology’ hosted by UBI Research on the 14th.
The OLED is the best automotive display
The seminar on the trend of the up-to-date technology for the next generation display which was themed ‘The technology trend for latest display and the automotive display’ hosted by the UBI Research, was held on July 14th at COEX in Seoul.
AR and VR Market, Active Expansion in 2019 – What Propels the Growth?
With recent ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) progress, fourth industrial revolution is receiving attention as the new growth engine.
LG and Samsung at the International TADF Symposium in Germany
TADF (Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence) is an exciting new technology to provide highly efficient and stable emitting materials for OLED devices.
Reduce OLED manufacturing time to 1/10
Manufacturing technology has been developed to quickly fabricate OLED. The Korea Research Foundation (KFRI) announced the Yun, Hongseok research team at Hanbat National University has developed a high-speed transfer technology that can effectively transfer multiple thin OLED layers to desired locations through high-pressure air jet injection.
OLED TV is the competitive TV covering the whole areas such as the design and the sound quality as well as the image quality.
“While the existing OLED TV is focused on the image quality, the current OLED TV is not only picture quality but also covering any areas including the design and the sound quality.”
OLED Highly Polarized OLED, A New Approach to Improve OLED Light Efficiency,
Professor Kim Jae-Hoon of Hanyang University announced at the seminar, ‘OLED market analysis and latest technology’ for the first half, host by UBI industry research last June that a small amount of chiral molecule added to the polymer OLED emissive layer controls the polarization of light emission to improve light efficiency by 60%.