
LG Display “Strategic direction is OLED. Uncompetitive LCD lines are planned to be switched.”
In the 2Q earnings release conference call hosted on the 25th…

LCD Smartphone is 4K era, what about OLED Smartphone?
In the past MWC 2017, Sony unveiled the world's first Smartphone with 4K LCD and it is scheduled to release the Xperia XZ2 Premium with 4K LCD on July 4. Attention is growing whether 4K resolution market is to be launched in earnest in smartphones.

Sony, announced the commercialization of 0.5-inch micro OLED with UXGA resolution
Sony announced the upcoming release of the ‘ECX339A’, a 0.5-inch OLED micro-display with UXGA resolution. According to Sony, it has achieved the world's smallest pixel pitch of 6.3 μm, enabling a resolution 1.6 times higher than its predecessor, “ECX337A "(0.5-inch QVGA (1280 × 960)).

QD-OLED TV, is it to be the next generation premium TV?
Samsung Electronics is currently occupying the premium TV market with QD-LCD TVs, which use 'PL-QD (photoluminescence quantum dot) technology'. This technology has a mechanism in which the material stimulated by external light re-emits light.

V-technology, announces acquisition of Lumiotec, OLED lighting company, and establishment of new subsidiary to develop next-generation OLED mask and deposition technology
V-technology said on February 7 that it would establish an 'organic electronics business demonstration facility' in Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture to develop a fine hybrid mask (FHM), which is next-generation deposition mask for OLEDs, and next-generation deposition technology. The total investment is planned to be about 5 billion Japanese yen for two to three years. The facility is scheduled to be completed in August, 2018 and the mask samples are to be shipped from October, 2018.

RGB ink-jet printing, also applied to small and medium-sized OLED?
At the "Year End Seminar of OLED/Display" held at COEX in Seoul, Korea, on December 7, Kim, Seok-Soon, CEO of Unijet said that ink-jet printing technology can implement over 550 RGB ppi and ink-jet printing can be applied to small and medium-sized OLED process as well.

[iMiD 2017] JOLED announces printing-type OLED development trend and future road map
At the 'IMID 2017 Business Forum' held in COEX, Seoul from 18th to 19th, Toshiaki Arai, chief technologist of JOLED announced JOLED's printing technology and future road map.

Is there possibility of High resolution(UHD) OLED Smart-phone generation?
Recently VR contents experience through smart-phone device has…

Cynora, TADF will contribute to high-resolution implementation of OLED devices and panel cost reduction
At the Global Materials Tech Fair 2017 held on September 22 in COEX, CEO Ko Chang-hoon of EM Index, Cynora's Korean partner, announced the development of the thermally activated delayed fluorescence, blue TADF, which is currently under development at Cynora.

AUO unveils round OLED and foldable OLED for the smart watch in Touch Taiwan 2017.
AUO showed the OLED that can be collapsible and three kinds of round OLEDs (1.2-inch, 1.3-inch, 1.4-inch) for the smart watch in Touch Taiwan 2017 held on 20th.
The round OLEDs in 1.2-inch and 1.4-inch of AUO are 326ppi, and it lowers an electric consumption at 30% versus former production goods. AUO also improves the visibility capacity in outdoor by embedding the brightness increase mode to make a display screen of two kinds of round OLEDs be clear even under bright sunlight.

Material Science to develop blue dopant for OLED ... OLED Efficiency ⋅ Lifetime Up↑
A Korean venture company has succeeded in developing blue dopant for Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) that a Japanese company has had its exclusive patent for. The dopant is an element that improves efficiency and life time by mixing with host that actually colors within the OLED.

[iMiD 2017] Samsung Display, Huge release of application using OLED
Samsung Display has received great attention by releasing a large number of applications using OLED such as VR and light field display in iMiD 2017 held in BEXCO, Busan from 28th to 31st August. First, Samsung Display comparatively exhibited a 3.5-inch OLED with 460ppi resolution for virtual reality and an 806ppi 3.2-inch OLED. A company official said "The higher the ppi, the better the experience of realism and immersion," and mentioned "We are currently developing higher resolution OLEDs."