Chinese set makers have begun to launch smart phones with optical front fingerprint recognition. The Galaxy S10, which will be released next year by Samsung Electronics, is being watched for the adoption of ultrasonic full-screen fingerprint recognition. LG Display is also developing a display with front fingerprint recognition.
Apple released its Apple Watch Series 4 with enhanced healthcare features on a larger screen than before, in the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park in California, USA on September 12.
Samsung Display announced on October 3 that the company will be supplying a 7-inch OLED display for Audi’s all-new electric Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV), the Audi e-tron®. The Audi e-tron has attracted attention throughout the automotive industry. One of its highlights are optional* ‘virtual exterior mirrors’ – a ‘first’ for a volume-production car.
Hwang Chang-Hun, CEO of OLEDON, which has developed plane-source deposition technology for small & medium-sized OLED and large area OLED, said that it is under development of vertical plane source deposition technology capable of manufacturing ultra-large OLED TVs of 77 inches or larger
Apple이 현지시간으로 9월 12일 미국 캘리포니아주에 위치한 애플 파크 스티브 잡스 극장에서 이전보다 더 큰 화면에 헬스케어 기능을 강화한 Apple Watch Series 4를 발표했다. Apple은 이번 발표에서 Apple watch Series 4에 LTPO라는 새로운 기술을 도입해 전력 효율을 향상시켰다고 밝히며 이목을 끌었다.
At IMID 2018 in Busan, BEXCO on August 31, Junji Adachi, CEO of Kyulux disclosed the performance of hyperfluorescence, which adds TADF dopant to the existing fluorescent host and dopant.
At IMID 2018 held in BEXCO, Busan, Korea on August 29, Kwak Jin-Oh, vice president of Samsung Display, delivered a keynote speech on the theme of ‘The Infinite Evolution with Display’. He emphasized “Display will be the key material to link to the smart world and the creation of a new world and environment will be accelerated.”
Kim said that RGB OLEDs applied to mobile devices and WRGB OLEDs applied to TVs do not satisfy customers’ needs in terms of life span. To solve this issue, he introduced 2 stack RGB OLED in which RGB OLED has the same tandem structure as WRGB.
LG Display and Samsung Display introduced a number of applications using OLED at IMID 2018 held in BEXCO, Busan, drawing attention from many visitors. In particular, LG Display displayed its strategies mostly for large OLED applications such as 77-inch transparent OLED and 55-inch video wall OLED, while Samsung Display introduced the small and medium sized OLED applications mainly for automotive and virtual reality devices.
OLEDON is a company which develops plane source deposition technology for high resolution AMOLED manufacturing. Hwang Chang-Hoon, CEO of OLEDON announced in IMID 2018 that it developed ‘curved plane source FMM deposition technology’ that can be adopted to 2250ppi AMOLED pixels, for the first time in the world.
JOLED, the world’s first to successfully commercialize solution process OLED products, announced that it had raised a total of 47 billion yen as a third-party capital increase.
8월 31일 부산 BEXCO에서 열리고 있는 IMID 2018에서 Kyulux의 CEO, Junji Adachi는 기존의 형광재료 host와 dopant에 TADF dopant를 첨가하는 hyperfluorescence의 성능들을 공개했다.
8월 29일 부산 BEXCO에서 개최된 IMID 2018 에서 곽진오 Samsung Display 부사장은 ‘The Infinite Evolution with Display’를 주제로 기조연설을 진행하며, “디스플레이가 스마트 세계를 연결해줄 핵심 소재가 될 것이며 새로운 세계와 환경의 창조를 가속화 할 것”이라 강조했다.
세계 최초로 solution process OLED 제품화에 성공한 JOLED가 23일 제 3자 할당 증자로 총 470억엔을 조달했다고 발표했다. JOLED에 따르면 Denso가 300억엔, Toyota Tsusho가 100억엔, Sumitomo chemical이 50억엔, SCREEN Finetech Solutions이 20억엔을 투자할 것이며, Denso와는 자동차용 디스플레이 개발을, Sumitomo chemical과는 solution process용 OLED 재료 개발에 협력 할 것으로 알려졌다.
전면 지문인식은 크게 광학식과 초음파식이 검토되고 있다. 광학식은 가격이 저렴하고 양산에 용이하지만, 센서가 OLED panel 하부에 위치해야 하므로 OLED 기판이 투명해야한다. 따라서 glass를 기판으로 사용하는rigid OLED에는 적용이 가능하지만 유색PI를 기판으로 사용하는 flexible OLED에는 적용이 어려운 상황이다. 초음파식은 정확성과 내구성이 가장 안정적이지만 제조가격이 비싸다는 단점이 있다.
Samsung Electronics announced its sales of KRW 58.48 trillion and operating profit of KRW 14.87 trillion through the earnings conference call of the second quarter, 2018 on July 31. Its sales decreased by 4% YoY and the operating profit increased by KRW 800 billion. Sales decreased 3% QoQ and operating profit fell by KRW 800 billion QoQ.
LG Display delivered 30 OLED lighting units, made by its employee volunteers, and baby products to 30 unmarried mothers. This volunteer activity was carried out by the talent services of OLED lighting employees. OLED lighting business division donated 30 flexible OLED lighting panels, and the product planning team customized the lightings for breastfeeding for unwed mothers
Samsung Electronics에 따르면, 디스플레이 패널 사업은 flexible OLED 패널 수요 둔화와 LCD TV 패널 판매 감소로 실적이 감소하며 매출 5조 6,700억원, 영업이익 1,400억원을 기록했다. OLED 부문은 rigid OLED 가동률이 개선되었음에도 불구하고, flexible 제품 수요 약세가 지속돼 전분기 대비 실적이 감소했다
LG디스플레이가 30일, 미혼모 30명에게 임직원 봉사자들이 직접 제작한 OLED조명등과 아기 용품을 전달했다.이번 봉사활동은 OLED조명담당 임직원들의 재능봉사로 진행됐다. OLED조명사업사업담당에서 플렉서블OLED조명패널 30개를 기증하고 상품기획팀에서 미혼모의 수유등을 맞춤 디자인했다.