Panasonic's printed 56" 4K OLED TV prototype uses Sumitomo's PLED materials
At CES 2013 Panasonic unveiled a 56" 4K (3840x2160) OLED TV panel prototype that was produced using an all-printing method. Back in January we assumed Panasonic were using SMOLED materials, but now...
View ArticleNanomarkets: solution-processed OLED materials to take up 47% of the OLED...
Nanomarkets released a new white paper about solution-Processed OLEDs. They estimate that in order for the OLED market to grow significantly for TV and lighting applications, companies must adopt...
View ArticleMerck says LG's OLED TV uses their materials, working with Taiwanese...
A few weeks ago we reported about Merck's new Taiwanese technology development center that is focused on OLEDs (but will also work on flexible displays, LED lighting and 3D displays). Merck held an...
View ArticleNanomarkets sees a $4.6 billion OLED materials market in 2020
Nanomarkets published a new edition of their OLED Material Market report, and they have some interesting forecasts and insights. Basically the company is upbeat on OLED displays for mobile devices, and...
View ArticleOTS corporate presentation video shows the PCA-48 4.5-Gen ink-jet processing...
OLED Technologies & Solutions (OTS) released a new corporate presentation video which introduces the company and their new inkjet-printing based OLED processing line, the PCA-48:The PCA-48 line is...
View ArticleSumitomo shows flexible, printed, structured P-OLEDs, will bring them to...
Sumitomo Chemical unveiled new flexible P-OLED lighting panels. These structured panels (they have a patterned printed on them) are produced in an ink-jet printed process. Sumitomo showed several lamp...
View ArticleSumitomo developed a new P-OLED inkjet printing technology
Sumitomo Chemical announced it has developed a new P-OLED inkjet-printing technology that achieves 423 PPI on glass substrates sized 370x470 mm. We don't have more information about Sumitomo's new...
View ArticleGenes'Ink announced a new silver conductive ink for flexible transparent OLED...
France based Genes'Ink launched a new silver-based solvent conductive ink for digital and screen printing. One of the major application they are targeting is the printing of efficient and transparent...
View ArticleNovaled and Cynora to co-develop printable OLED materials in a
Cynora, Novaled and the University of Regensburg will co-develop new soluble (printable) materials for low-cost high efficiency OLED lighting devices. This new project, called cyCESH is funded by the...
View ArticleMerck: OLED to take a significant share of the display market, plans to...
Merck posts an interesting presentation detailing the company's OLED business. And it includes some interesting details. So first of all, Merck says that if OLEDs advances further, it could gain a...
View ArticlePanasonic's 4K OLED at IFA 2013
Some web sites are reporting that Panasonic is set to unveil a 20" 4K OLED tablet at the IFA 2013 event next week. Those sites are relying on auto-translated Japanese text. But in fact the company will...
View ArticlePanasonic shows OLED TV and lighting prototypes at IFA 2013
As promised, Panasonic showed 56" 4K (3840x2160) OLED TV panel at the IFA 2013 exhibition. The company had several prototypes on display, and I believe these are the same panels as the ones Panasonic...
View ArticleCynora and KIT co-develop OLED-based flexible surfaces for smart packaging...
Cynora and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) launched a new project called cyFLEX that aims to develop develop flexible and luminescent surfaces for smart packaging and advertising...
View ArticleWorld's thinnest, flexible keyboard enabled by printed electronics
CSR Pls developed the world's thinnest wireless touch keyboard and demonstrated the device at IFA 2013. This flexible keyboard is only 0.5 mm thick and connects to any device via CSR's low-power...
View ArticlePanasonic's OLED program is progressing fast, will launch 56" UHD OLEDs in Q4...
According to the OLED Association, Panasonic said that they are progressing fast enough to launch the 55" (probably 56") UHD OLED TV in Q4 2013. Panasonic will start mass production in its Himeji Pilot...
View ArticleSemiconductor manufacturing equipment makers Applied Materials and Tokyo...
Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron (TEL) will merge into a new company that will have a market value of $29 billion. Applied shareholders will own approximately 68% of the new company and Tokyo...
View ArticleMitsubishi and Pioneer to start producing printed OLED lighting panels in 2014
Mitsubishi Chemical and Pioneer have been jointly developing OLED lighting technologies for a long time, including printed OLED panels. The companies are currently producing OLED lighting panels in...
View ArticleBOE plans a 8-Gen Oxide-TFT WRGB AMOLED line in Hefei
China's BOE Display is building a 5.5-Gen LTPS fab in Ordos by the end of 2013. This fab will first produce LTPS LCDs, but BOE wants to switch it to AMOLED production. According to OLEDNet, during the...
View ArticleFraunhofer IAP and MBraun develop an OLED lighting and OPV printing system
Researchers from the Fraunhofer IAP insitute, together with MBraun, developed a new production facility that can be used to print OLED panels and OPV cells. They say that the new system can be used to...
View ArticleKateeva finally unveil their YIELDjet OLED TV inkjet printing system
Kateeva is a US based startup that was established in 2009 to develop OLED ink-jet deposition technology originally developed at MIT. The company has been been in stealth-mode for years, and now...
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