OLED Frontier Forum’s 3rd Section Panel Discussion Summary
The 3rd section of the 1st OLED Frontier Forum (Jan 28), OLED’s Future, held a panel discussion with government, industry, and academia experts discussing OLED industry development strategy, such as next generation technology development, convergent areas, and personnel training, and future forecast. OLEDNET summarized the answers that each expert gave to the questions of the […]
Sung-Chul Kim, Samsung Display’s CTO, What is Needed for OLED To Enter New Areas?
Sung-Chul Kim, Samsung Display’s CTO, at the 1st OLED Frontier Forum (Jan 28) gave a presentation ‘AMOLED Technical Issue and Future’ and discussed OLED technological issues of the past and present. Kim pointed out the fact that glass substrate is not always necessary for OLED as the most different factor compared to LCD, and […]
In-byeong Kang, CTO of LG Display, Discusses the Past, Present, and Future of Large Area OLED Panel
On January 28, Korea Display Industry Association organized the 1st OLED Frontier Forum in JW Marriott Hotel Seoul. Under the title ‘OLED, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow’, the forum attendees could review Korean OLED research results of the past 20 odd years, and discussed regarding future OLED industry growth strategy. LG Display’s CTO In-byeong […]
Leaders Who Created Korean OLED Industry
On January 28, OLED Frontier Forum, ‘OLED, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow’ was held in Seoul, Korea. With approximately 250 attendees from the industry, academia, and government organizations, experts discussed scenes from the early days of OLED development, the current market and technology competition status, and future industry development issues. President of UBI Research, Choong […]
LG Display to Focus on OLED Investment in 2016
On January 27, LG Display held Q4 2015 earnings announcement, stating that the business profit recorded a surplus for 15 consecutive quarters, and annual profit of over 1 trillion KRW for 3 years. LG Display’s Q4 2014 sales recorded 7,495,700 million KRW, a 5% increase from the previous quarter’s 7,158,200 million KRW and 10% […]
Samsung Electronics’ Smooth Foldable AMOLED Panel Development
On January 28, Samsung Electronics, through conference call, analyzed Q4 2015 and announced overall results of 2015. Q4 2015 sales of Samsung Electronics recorded 53,320,000 million KRW, a 3% increase from previous quarter, and 6,140,000 million KRW of business profit, an increase of 1,250,000 million KRW from previous quarter. CE (consumer electronics) department showed […]
LG Electronics to Actively Induce OLED TV Demands in 2016
LG Electronics CFO, Do Hyun Jung announced that they expect this year’s OLED TV’s demand to be approximately 4 times higher than last year’s. With this statement during the LG Electronics earnings announcement (January 26), Jung demonstrated determination in popularization of OLED TV. Regarding the forecast of Q1, he estimated that despite the slow […]
OLED Encapsulation Transparent Gas Barrier Film Market, How High Can It Grow?
At present for flexible AMOLED encapsulation, thin film encapsulation, where organic and inorganic thin films are laminated, and hybrid encapsulation, where minimum passivation and gas barrier film are laminated, are used in mass production. As large area AMOLED panel is being mass produced through bottom emission structure where the light is emitted toward substrate, metal […]
Will 2016 be the Year of Glasses-Free 3D Display Commercialization?
During the Pioneer Technology Seminar to Overcome Display Industry Crisis (January 14) held in South Korea, Dr. Sung-Kyu Kim of Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) discussed the current issues of glasses-free 3D display and technology development for commercialization. He also revealed related KIST research results. At present, the 3D display applied to […]
Quantum Dot, Will it Rise to Become the Answer for Future Display Materials?
The interest in quantum dot materials is increasing daily. In July 2015, Professor Changhee Lee of Seoul National University received Science Technology Person of the Month prize with technology that greatly improves QLED performance and lifetime. In CES 2016, with cadmium-less quantum dot applied SUHD TV, Samsung Electronics achieved UHD TV’s color standard BT.2020 and […]
[Lighting Japan 2016] Yamagata University Develops Low Cost Flexible OLED Encapsulation
Innovation Center for Organic Electronics in Yamagata University in Japan discussed low cost flexible OLED encapsulation in Lighting Japan 2016 conference. Existing flexible OLED encapsulation mainly used hybrid encapsulation structure that forms multi-layer thin film passivation layers on top of OLED, and then applying adhesive organic material and laminating gas barrier film. The encapsulation structure […]
Sumitomo Chem. Aims for General Lighting Market with P-LED
Sumitomo Chemical revealed that they are planning to enter the general lighting market with solution process applied P-LED (polymer OLED). Sumitomo Chemical is a company developing polymer and solution process applied OLED lighting panel. The company began actively selling decorative OLED lighting panel from H2 2015. In Lighting Japan 2016 exhibition, Sumitomo Chemical […]
[Lighting Japan 2016] LED Lighting Industry Crisis. Solution?
In Lighting Japan 2016 Keynote Session, Geer van der Meer, CEO of Osram Business Unit Digital Systems, suggested directions for future lighting industry. Geert van der Meer explained that the current lighting market is rapidly adopting LED, but the large volume of Chinese products is decreasing the price of LED source and device […]
[Analyst Column] CES 2016 Press Conference Comparison Analysis, Samsung Elec. TV vs. LG Elec. TV
Choong Hoon Yi, Chief Analyst, UBI Research When Samsung Electronics, CES’ most important company, holds a press conference, members of the media wait longer than an hour anticipating the new world the firm will show. For LG Electronics’ press conference, the waiting period is relatively shorter. However, the press conferences at CES 2016 […]
[CES 2016] OLED Smartphone Territory Slowly Expands
OLED panel, mostly used for Samsung Electronics, is expanding its market and slowly entering China.