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OLED Adoption by Smartphones to Slow Down in 2022

by Woojin Son

LCD, which once used to dominate smartphone displays, is now gradually giving way to OLED. Widely recognized as a more advanced display, OLED has steadily increased its share in the small panel market for …

Tags:Flexible Displays| OLEDs| Smartphone Market

Researchers Demonstrate a Practical Means to Fabricate Smart Textiles

by Arthur Berman

Hyung Woo Choi of the Electrical Engineering Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK) was the first author on a recently published article describing the development of a smart textile. A smart …

Tags:Fabric & Textile Displays| Flexible Displays| R&D (Research & Development)

Surface Haptic Technology is Being Applied to Flexible AMOLEDs

by Arthur Berman

A recent press release by Tanvas, Inc. (Chicago, IL), a developer of surface haptic technology, announced the results of a collaboration with “one of the world’s leading display suppliers.” The product of the collaboration …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Haptics| Touch

Android 12L will come to Samsung, Lenovo, and Microsoft devices

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Verge reports that Samsung, Lenovo, and Microsoft are the first device manufacturers to commit to shipping Android 12L, the new version of Android designed to be better optimized for tablets …

2021 OLED Shipments Rise 25% Y/Y

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC said that 242 million OLEDs were shipped in Q4 2021, up 11% on Q3, bringing shipments for the year to 831 million, up 25%. Smartphones dominated with 638 million, up …

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

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

Links Week Ending 25th February 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. (Apologies – this should have been …

DSCC Sees Continued Strong Growth for Foldables

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC updated on its latest Foldable/Rollable Report and highlighted that panel shipments more than tripled to 10 million in 2021, up 207%. Smartphone shipments were 6% better than forecast at 7.98 …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Notebooks| Smartphone Market

Cambridge-Based Electronics Company Raises Up to $25m Series B Fund to Accelerate Production of Flexible Displays and Active Optics

by Artem Alekseenko

FlexEnable, the leader in the development and industrialization of flexible organic electronics, has raised $11M Series B financing. Coretronic, a major Taiwanese LCD backlight module manufacturer, has made a strategic investment alongside significant European …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Investment

Flexible OLED Display will continue to Drive Next Gen Smartphones

by Sweta Dash

Technology developments, material improvements, product innovations combined with capacity expansions and higher competition will help flexible OLED display to gain higher share and drive the next generation smartphone market. There has been slowdown in …

LGD and BOE Competing with SDC for Larger Share of iPhone Business

by Barry Young

Apple has depended on Samsung for the majority of its OLED panel supply, but its policy is to minimize dependency on any single supplier. To that end it has encouraged LG Display (LGD) to …