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OLED Flexible Smartphone Panel Shipments Projected to Grow 62% Y/Y in 2020

by Barry Young

Looking through a microscopic lens rather than a telescopic lens, market experts at DisplayWeek 2019’s Business Conference, postulated that flexible OLED capacity should be converted to rigid capacity because rigid displays were outselling flexible …

Tags:AMOLED| Flexible Displays| OLED Fabs| Small Medium Panel Supply

Despite Offering the Best IJP Tool, Kateeva Falls Victim to Samsung’s China Paranoia

by Barry Young

Alain Harrus, CEO of Kateeva left the company, replaced by May Su, previously responsible for strategic planning. Kateeva was a start-up founded in 2004 by Conor Madigan who worked on the concept of Ink …

Tags:InkJet Deposition| Kateeva| Samsung

UDC Great Quarter and Year, Challenging Q120 and a Future that Could Under Underperform the Industry

by Barry Young

UDC reported Q419 and 2019 results last week. For the quarter, red and green material revenues were $60.5m up 52.4% Y/Y and total material revenues, including royalties were $98.5m up 46.2% Y/Y. For the …

Are QLEDs Still Competitive in the Luxury TV Market? (Part 2)

by Barry Young

In Part 2 of the article, (part 1 is here) I will discuss the differences in luminance between LCD TVs and OLED TVs and the effect of FALD on the implementation of HDR. Part …

Tags:Direct Backlights| HDR - High Dynamic Range| LCD Backlights| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED TVs

Are QLEDs Still Competitive in the Luxury TV Market? (Part 1)

by Barry Young

This is a two-part article. Part 1 investigates how QLED and OLEDs compete in front of screen performance and how QLEDs use various techniques to improve viewing angle in 4K and 8K TVs and …

Tags:OLED TVs| QD OLEDs| Quantum Dots| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Testing

Automotive Display Shipments Reached 148m in 2017

by Barry Young

Automotive display panels totalled ~148m units last year and unit volumes are expected to grow to ~170m units this year, but with displays ranging in size from 1.5” to 20+”, it is difficult to …

Tags:Automotive| Forecasts| Market Data| Vol 25 - Issue 23

Don’t Let Image Sticking Damage the Reputation of OLEDs

by Barry Young

With the release of the iPhone X, Apple expects color and hue shifting at off-angles as a characteristic of the OLED display. Apple also says iPhone X has the best OLED display in the …

Tags:OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 42

Sony Transitioning Towards Micro LED TV

by Barry Young

At CES, Sony announced a new TV, which included Backlight Master Drive, a technique, which improves contrast ratio and minimizes the effects of dimming on high brightness portions of images and it has now …

Tags:Direct Backlights| MicroLED| OLED TVs| sony| Vol 23 - Issue 30

Can’t Stop Drinking the QD “Kool-Aid”

by Barry Young

The many reports of Quantum Dots (QD) saving LCD TVs from the emergence of AMOLEDs tend to superficially use the extended color space and the higher luminance of LCDs as their key arguments. There …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| LCD displays| OLEDs| Quantum Dots| Vol 23 - Issue 26

Drinking the QD “Kool-Aid”

by Barry Young

When I wandered into the Exhibit Hall at the Moscone Convention Center West, the first visible display was LG’s 77” HDR UHD AMOLED TV, which was attracting the most interest and largest crowds on …

Tags:OLEDA (OLED Association)| OLEDs| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

Déjà Vu – All Over Again

by Barry Young

I am the CEO of the OLED Association a trade group that promotes the use of OLED technology and as a result, I am biased about OLEDs. Smartphones are the driving force that has …

Tags:OLEDA (OLED Association)| OLEDs| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 29