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Links Week Starting 28th February 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. We were sad to see that VGX …

Tags:Blu-ray Players| Content Creation| Huawei| LED| Market Data| Outdoor Displays| Qualcomm| Retail| Samsung| Smart Home & Home Networks| Steam Consoles| UltraHD & 4K| Wi-Fi

Tanvas Video Shows a Haptic-enabled Flexible AMOLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Haptic technology supplier, Tanvas of the US, posted a series of videos showing its haptic technology demonstrated on a flexible OLED. The 12.1″ display uses Tanvas PET film-based touch and haptic …

Tags:Automotive| Haptics| Touch Market

An Inflection Point on Blue OLED Materials

by Bob Raikes

For more than two decades, OLED has had a particularly big weakness. Like other LEDs, it has always had challenges with producing blue light. But OLED material maker UDC may have made a significant …

Tags:OLED Materials| OLEDs| R&D (Research & Development)| UDC

Visionox Launches China’s First LTPO AMOLED display

by Bob Raikes

What They Say OLED-Info posted a YouTube video that shows a new LTPO AMOLED produced by Visionox and claimed to be the first LTPO panel to be made by a Chinese firm. The technology …

Tags:AMOLED| China| LTPO TFT| YouTube

Absen Hosts First Ever In-person Event at New European HQ

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Absen is holding an event for the public at its European HQ which is in Mörfelden-Walldorf near Frankfurt Rhine-Main (Germany, 15-16th March 2022, 10am – 4pm CET). Day will include some …

Tags:Absen| Events| LED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP

Panasonic has Stretchable Film for Electronics

by Bob Raikes

What They Say There’s a new polymer film material from Panasonic Electronic Materials that it is calling Beyolex. The firm said that its properties are: “It has very high temperature resistance, with a thermal …

Tags:Film materials| Flexible Displays| Panasonic

UDC Breaks Cover on new OLED Blue

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In its quarterly earnings call, UDC said that it has extended its deals with LG Display, Visionox and Tianma as well as announcing a new plant to be established with PPG, …

Tags:Financial Data| OLED Fabs| OLED Materials| OLEDs| UDC

Google Promotes Chrome for Digital Signage, Again

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sixteen-nine.net reports that Google is making another approach to the digital signage market as there is a new version of Chrome, the Chrome OS Flex, that can run on existing devices …

Tags:Digital Signage| Google| Operating Systems

Samsung Display to Add Solus as a Supplier for OLED M12 Material

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reported that Samsung Display is adding Solus Advanced Materials is adding Solus Advanced Materials as a supplier for capping layers (CPL) in its M12 OLED material set which was …

Tags:Merck| OLED Materials| Samsung Display

BOE demonstrates a new foldable OLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say GizChina reported that BOE has shown a prototype flexible OLED (f-OLED) that can be in- and out-folded to make an N shape. It has a maximum diagonal of 12.3″ when open, …

Tags:BOE| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices

Attention, the next 800 meters are LED!

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Invidis has reported that Samsung has used an 800 metre long LED advert along a motorway in Utrecht in the Netherlands. There are two large (106.5 m²) screens and a large …

Tags:LED| Netherlands| Outdoor Displays

DSCC Highlights Glass Growth

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC published a blog post (free registration needed) that included extracts from its latest display glass report and reported that glass shipments increased by 13% in 2021 to a record level …

Tags:Corning| Glass| Market Data