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OLEDs, the Good News and the Bad News

by Bob Raikes

A lot of British jokes start with the introduction “I’ve got some good news, and some bad news”. Many of them are cruel or politically incorrect, so I won’t repeat them here, but it …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| OLEDs| Transparent Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 29

BMW Takes on Osram OLEDs

by Tom Allen

Four weeks ago, LG announced that it was supplying OLEDs for Audi’s TT RS coupe. Osram has now joined the same market, developing and supplying OLEDs for the taillights in BMW’s M4 GTS. Although …

Tags:Automotive| Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Osram| Vol 23 - Issue 28

Changing PAC Colour and Fluorescence With Gases

by Tom Allen

Researchers from Kumamoto, Yamaguchi and Osaka Universities in Japan have developed a method of changing the colour and fluorescence of compounds, using oxygen (O2) and hydrogen (H2). The (reversible) reaction produces water as a …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 23 - Issue 28

Why Displays Won’t be Really Flexible and Why it Doesn’t Matter

by Norbert Hildebrand

Flexible displays are one of the darlings when we think of future display technologies. Remember those high gloss images of devices with roll-up displays that will allows us to roll out a 12” screen …

Tags:EPD (Electrophoretic)| Flexible Displays| OLEDs| Vol 23 - Issue 28

Bio OLEDs Move Us Beyond Displays

by Steve Sechrist

If you have ever wonder what the future may hold for OLED display technology, particularly beyond the display industry, look no further than the “OLEDs: Recent Advances and Applications” talk (M-03) given this past …

Tags:Applications| biometrics| OLEDs| Sensors| technology| Vol 23 - Issue 27

eMagin Patents Dual AR/VR HMD

by Matthew Brennesholtz

eMagin Corporation is a company that specializes in the development, design and manufacturing of OLED on silicon microdisplays that target the Head Mounted Display (HMD) market. The main target market for these devices is …

Tags:Augmented Reality| eMagin| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| OLEDs| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 27

A New OLED Display Testing Service

by Tom Allen

OLED-Info and Ray Soneira’s DisplayMate have co-launched a new OLED display evaluation service. Services offered include measuring and checking a display’s objective performance and specifications in a laboratory setting; improving and optimising performance; itemising …

Tags:DisplayMate| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Testing| Vol 23 - Issue 27

NHK’s iOLED is Moisture-Resistant

by Milos Pavlovic

In 2013, Japanese broadcaster NHK’s Science & Technology Research Laboratories (STRL) developed a new OLED structure to improve its moisture and oxygen resistance. The development was called ‘inverted OLED’ or iOLED. A full colour …

Tags:Encapsulation| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NHK| OLEDs| Vol 23 - Issue 27

Kolon Industries Develops Clear and Colorless Polyimide

by Norbert Hildebrand

According to an article in the Korea Herald, Kolon Indutries has succeeded in developing a clear and colorless polyimide calling it CPI™ (coloreless PI). Kolon Industries, the South Korean chemical company made news last …

Tags:Flexible Displays| LCD displays| Materials| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Transparent Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 26

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

Growth Opportunities in OLED Displays

by Ian Hendy

After a gestation period of about 20 years, OLEDs are now most definitely in a growth stage – rising TV sales show it, and Apple’s (rumoured) adoption of the technology for the 2018 iPhone …

Tags:Apple| OLEDs| Supply Chain| Vol 23 - Issue 27