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Visionox Follows Samsung in OLED Capacity

by Tom Allen

China’s Visionox began building a G5.5 AMOLED plant in August 2013 (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 30). Now, it has told journalists that it will be ready to start mass production in Q2 this …

FlexEnable to Showcase Flexible Electronics Technology Platform at Mobile World Congress

by Helen Vince

FlexEnable, the leader in the development and industrialisation of flexible organic electronics, will showcase its flexible electronics technology platform for mobile and wearable applications for the first time at next week’s Mobile World Congress …

Tags:Flexible Displays| IPS| MWC 2015| Wearables

FlexEnable, Merck and Partners Energize Interest in Plastic LCD Technology

by Chris Chinnock

In a project co-funded by the seventh Framework Program of the European Union, FlexEnable, Merck and several other partners have now demonstrated the world’s first plastic LCD with active-matrix in-plane switching (IPS). It uses …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| Merck| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Veeco Lowers Encapsulation Expectations

by Tom Allen

In 2013, Veeco purchased Synos Technology in order to acquire the company’s flexible OLED encapsulation method, Fast-ALD. The technique enables material deposition at lower temperatures (sub-100°) and faster speeds than traditional atomic layer deposition …

Russian Institute (TsNIITochMash) Develops Bullet Proof Display – Kind Of

by Norbert Hildebrand

The Russian Central Research Institute of Precision Machine Building (TsNIITochMash) has said that it has developed a highly flexible display that is able to work even after it has been hit by a bullet. …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Rugged Displays| Vol 22 - Issue 08

LGD Succeeds in Doubling Flexible Capacity

by Tom Allen

Universal Display has revealed some details about LG Display’s flexible OLED capacity. During a conference call with investors, UDC said that LGD’s current monthly capacity is 14,000 substrates from its G4.5 fab – more …

TVs and Tablets to Dominate OLED Share

by Tom Allen

OLED panel revenue fell 4% YoY in 2014, says Korea’s UBI Research, due to low sales of the Galaxy S5. Additionally, many TV manufacturers -including Samsung – are now looking at quantum dot LCD …

Plastic Logic Spin-Off Creates Flexible Circuit for OLEDs

by Tom Allen

FlexEnable’s OLED display reaches a 60Hz refresh rate and has a 0.25mm bend radiusFlexEnable, the new Cambridge-based company spun off of Plastic Logic (Plastic Logic Divides into Two Companies), claims that its work will …

Technologies For Flexible AMOLEDs

by Norbert Hildebrand

A new article published by SID – Information Display discusses the challenges and barriers for creating the flexible AMOLED used in LG’s G Flex smartphone. The article describes the solutions LG developed to make …

Tags:AMOLED| Flexible Displays| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 06

Graphene-based LED Clears Way for Flexible Displays

by Tom Allen

Graphene and related 2D materials (such as boron nitride and molybdenum disulphide) can be used to create thin, flexible and semi-transparent LEDs for next-gen phones, tablets and TVs. Researchers at the University of Manchester …

Samsung To Show Off Curves in Barcelona

by Tom Allen

Samsung has announced what is widely expected to be the launch date of the next Galaxy smartphone: the 1st March, just before MWC, in Barcelona. The invitation sent to the Display Monitor team indicates …

LG Develops Flexible OLED Panels – Display or Not

by Norbert Hildebrand

LG Display has made headlines in many technology blogs in recent days. At CES the company announced plans for its OLED TVs, now the buzz is about a shatterproof flexible OLED panel that LG …

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