Japan’s Canon Tokki is the leader in OLED deposition equipment and the industry is watching closely whether they will maintain this leadership in the era of Gen 8 OLED as it did the prior generations.Samsung Display and LG Display, the company’s main customers, are currently developing equipment for

A Samsung Display executive said on Friday that MicroLED displays will likely be used over OLED display panels in augmented reality (AR) devices.Samsung Display group leader Kim Min-woo said at MicroLED Display Workshop industry event in Seoul that this was because high luminance, or brightness, was

The current oversupply of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels is expected to continue through 2023, analyst firm TrendForce said in its latest forecast.LCD panel prices had increased from June 2020 through the first half of 2021, the firm said, spurned by high demand for consumer electronics from Co

Samsung Display was aiming to develop red, green and blue (RGB) OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) technology.Like its competitors LG Display and Sony, the company will develop OLEDoS that uses white pixels and color filters first.But it ultimately aims to develop OLEDoS without the need of white pixels, sour

Samsung Display is planning to use a transparent polyimide substrate for its foldable OLED panels by 2024, TheElec has learned.Using completely transparent polyimide instead of the yellowish ones used now will increase the light penetration through the panel and improve the quality of pictures in un

Samsung has begun production of 89-inch MicroLED TVs during the third quarter, TheElec has learned.It is the tech giant’s first MicroLED TV that uses low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) thin-film transistor (TFT) glass substrates instead of the printed circuit boards used in prior models.

Apple has increased the specification it wants from its OLED on Silicon, or OLEDoS, panels from Samsung Display and LG Display, TheElec has learned.The company had first requested pixels per inch of 2800 but has now increased to 3500ppi, sources said.Cupertino likely wants to increase the immersion

LG Display is set an OLED panel shipment target for 2023 that is higher than its expected shipment this year, TheElec has learned.The company is expected to ship less of the panels than it aimed for this year due to demand for TVs falling, in general, this year from inflation.LG Display is planning

There will be no spending on equipment related to the production of large OLED panels used in TVs and monitors next year, analyst firm Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) said in its forecast.Such panels are made by South Korean companies LG Display and Samsung Display.DSCC said spending on equi

Samsung Display is showing interest in an OLED panel production technology that doesn’t require the use of masks, TheElec has learned.A high-level executive of the South Korean display panel maker recently visited its equipment supplier Applied Materials’ headquarters in the US to discuss JDI’s eLEA

LG Display was in the final stages of review by Apple for its low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) OLED for use in iPhone 14 Pro Max, TheElec has learned.Whether the South Korean display maker will win the deal will be decided in around two weeks' time, sources said.This is the first time th

LG Display has developed an OLED on Silicon and color filter structure with high efficiency, a company researcher said.The thin film encapsulant, which protects OLED from water and oxygen, is made 2.5 micrometers thick, which is enough for the light not to leak out and prevents different colors of l

Samsung Display is expected to gain more orders for the low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) OLED panels used in the top-tier iPhone 14 models, TheElec has learned.The South Korean display maker’s rivals have had a low yield rate for the premium LTPO OLED panels, sources said.Due to this, Sa

Samsung Display is planning to manufacture single stack OLED first at its first Gen 8 OLED production line, TheElec has learned.The company is planning to build a Gen 8 (2200x2500mm) substrate OLED production line.The larger substrate used in the line compared to Gen 6, which mostly makes panels for

An LG Display executive had said the company believes that OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) will be the main display used in future metaverse devices.LG Display vice president Yang Joon-young said during TheElec Metaverse Conference held in Seoul on Friday that technology around OLED has improved in recent

Samsung Display had transferred its patents in the US related to liquid crystal display (LCD) to CSOT back in June, TheElec has learned.It also transferred its patents in South Korea to the Chinese company last month, sources said.A total of 577 patents in the US were given to CSOT, which bought Sam

Apple is expected to use ‘hybrid’ OLED panels in its first OLED iPad that it will launch a few years from now, TheElec has learned.Hybrid OLED panels refer to OLED panels that use both rigid OLED panel and flexible OLED panel technologies.Rigid OLED panels use glass as substrates while flexible OLED

Samsung Display was considering both ultra-thin glass (UTG) and transparent polyimide (PI) film to use as cover windows for foldable OLED panels aimed at tablets and notebooks, TheElec has learned.The company currently uses UTG for foldable OLED panels it manufactures for smartphones such as the Gal

Samsung Display was developing quantum dot (QD)-OLED panels that were thinner than its current commercialized version.This was confirmed by the booth of the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute during the 22nd International Meeting of Information Display (IMID 2022) held at Busan, S

Samsung Display is planning to expand the production capacity of quantum dot (QD)-OLED panels by 30% before the year’s end, TheElec has learned.The company plans to achieve this by reducing the takt time __ the time it takes to manufacture a product __ without additional spending on equipment, sourc