[Lighting Japan 2015]What is the keyword for the next lighting industry?
The Lighting Japan 2015 was held on January 14, 2015 at the Tokyo Big Sight in Japan. At the key note session, Jeffrey Cassis, the senior vice president of Phillips, began the first presentation with the theme of “Delivering the Promise and potential of digital light” emphasizing the notion of digital lighting and connected lighting […]
[CES2015] How far LCD TV will evolve?
LCD TV made another great innovation. It is the LED BLU using Quantum dot(QD) accomplishing an ultimate level of LCD TV picture quality that no one has imagined yet.
[CES2015] Samsung’s love for OLED is at cross with that of LG
OLED is the only electronic appliance made in Korea which is commensurate with the modifiers such as the world’s first, best and most. It is even dominate not by one but by two major companies in both mobile device and TV categories, contending for supremacy in the flexible (plastic) device area as well.
Why Hybrid Encapsulation?
The latest trends in the display market can be represented with the keywords such as flexible, large panel and high resolution. And companies are releasing the products applying a flexible AMOLED panel like Galaxy Note Edge, Galaxy Gear S, and G Watch R and high-resolution products applying a large area panel such as UHD curved 65- and 77- inch in the AMOLED market. For Flexible AMOLED panel, foldable and rollable features are required whereas the resolution over UHD level and the brightness at least 500nit are required for a large area AMOLED panel.
[CES2015] Keyword for this event is “connectivity”
With only two more days left, CES 2015’s biggest concern can be characterized in one word “connectivity”” Until now, CES welcomed visitors with thousands of booths presenting a wide variety of electronics commensurate with the reputation of the event as the best electronics show in the world. The space connecting Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Sony, and Panasonic was the largest area occupying the event, devoted to hardware such as audio, cellphone, etc. besides TV
[CES2015] Panasonic and Skyworth to actively participate in OLED TV business
Han Sang-beom, the CEO of LG Display said at CES 2015 press conference that the OLED TV market for this year is expected to be about 600 thousand units, declaring to make 2015 the first year for WRGB OLED TV.
[CES2015] Samsung Press Conference Highlights
Similar to the prior CES, Samsung has announced many new innovative products such as TVs, home appliances and more. Here are some of the key points of each new announcements.
[CES2015] Samsung, the hero of INNOVQTION AWARDS!
The core products of the 2015 exhibition were released at the CES Unveiled event including various mobile devices equipped with different high-tech sensors like a drone. The 20 most innovative products selected by the CES were awarded at this event.
LG Chem. release 320x320mm OLED lighting and new application
The 320x320mm OLED light panel in LG Chem’s product portfolio in the world’s largest commercially available panel. The panel has an efficacy of 60lm/W, a high CRI (90) and is only 0.88mm thick. The output, which is similar to common 60-75 Watt incandescent lamp. This is significant because it marks the point where OLEDs will not only be seen as an energy-efficient and human friendly light source, but also come to be seen as a fit-for-purpose and proficient general purpose light source. The 320x320mm panel is now commercially available.
[CES2015]LG Press Conference Highlight
Tim Alessi, director of new product development at LG Electronics USA, unveils LG’s new 77″ Flexible 4K OLED TV during a news conference at the 2015 International CES on Monday, Jan. 5, 2015, in Las Vegas.
[CES2015] Prelude of the war without gunfire and border
CES is held around this time every year for the first time in the world. Though it will run from January 6th to 9th, the journalists are provided with enough time to review projected topics of CES from the 4th.
[Analyst Column] Watch issued for the promotion of QD-LED BLU LCD TV
Lately, the media, research institutes and stock firms are scrambling to release data on the marketability of QD-LCD TV which is the LCD TV applying the QD (quantum dot) materials to the LED backlight. In the strict sense, it is not a LCD technology but a backlight technology. The QD-LCD BLU (backlight unit) can be divided into the three types; one is applying the QD material directly to the LED chip, another is arranging it in front of the LED chip; and lastly it is placing it in between LCD and Light Guide Plate after filming by inserting the QD materials to the barrier film.
Sony, unveiled a high-resolution single-lens OLED module
Sony developed a glasses-style smart device of a single-lens display module. <Single-lens display module> Source: Sony <(top) sample field of vision, (bottom) module attached to eyewear piece> Source: Sony This module was designed by Sony to be a small and light weight glasses-style composed of OLED microdisplay, micro-optical unit, and miniaturized control board. […]
OLED TV, becomes the Quantum Dot TV just by placing a dot in the name?
For OLED TV, the technology name “OLED” makes it easier for a consumer to recognize the differences of TVs precisely as it uses the OLED panel which is a spontaneous emission method employed to realize brightness and color. In the beginning of last year, LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics made it clear that it is not LCD TV by literally using the term ‘OLED TV’ for the TVs manufactured using OLED panel. But for LED TV, it should be named as LCD TV adopting LED BLU. The LED TV is the one that controls light only with LED.
[Analyst Column] G Watch R and Galaxy Gear S Structures and Disassembling Video
G Watch R and Galaxy Gear S by LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics respectively were disassembled to see their structures. First of all, much of the internal and external design concepts were quite similar. Claiming to be the classical sports type watch, the G Watch R is a smart watch emphasizing the sense of watch rather than its diverse smart functions while Galaxy Gear S was produced with a design of fashion watch. From dismantling both products, it was revealed that for G Watch R, the plastic OLED display which corresponds to the plate of watch is attached to the glass of the watch as shown by removing the back plate by unscrewing from the back side just like a regular watch and internal components, but for Galaxy Gear S, the flexible OLED panel was attached to the front side with adhesive so that the window detaches as applying heat to the front side.