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OCZ Sabre OLED keyboard (same as the UnitedKeys one) available for only 135$

oled — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:01:09 +0000

Remember the UnitedKeys OLED keyboard? OCZ is now selling the same keyboard, under their own brand, called OCZ Sabre. While the UnitedKeys costs 260$, the OCZ Sabre costs only 135$, available through ZipZoomFly.

Via Engadget

DisplaySearch: OLED TV sales to grow 140% between 2008 to 2016

oled — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:36:27 +0000

DisplayDearch has released their Quarterly Worldwide FPD Forecast Report. They forecast that OLED TV revenues will increase at a CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 140% from 2008 to 2016. Demand for electronic books will lift revenue of electrophoretic and similar display technologies at a 49% CAGR.

Total FPD sales will rise only 1% per year, according to DisplaySearch.

Check out our OLED-Reports section for OLED related reports.

Choosing color sets can reduce OLED power consumption by up to 40%

oled — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:33:41 +0000

Researchers (led by Johnson Chuang from the Simon Fraser University in Canada) have shown that if you choose the color set on an OLED display, you can save up to 40% of the power required.

Different colors in OLED require different power - for example yellow is more efficient than Magenta, at the same brightness.

This can be useful, if you want to get better battery life over display quality. Here's an example of a tooth image:

The left image (tooth) is using standard colors, and the right image is using colors that require 40% less energy on an OLED. The quality is obviously better with standard colors, but almost all the details are preserved. This can be used for applications such as medical or military I guess, where power saving is key.

Via NewScientist

Philips Lumiblade white OLED

oled — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:35:57 +0000

A few weeks ago, Philips sent me a couple of Lumiblade OLED panels to test - a blue square, and a white 'freeform'. Unfortunately the white one had some defects. So they sent me a new white panel, this one a square. It's the same size as the blue square. Finally I have a real OLED light lamp - a white one... The OLED driver that I have can only connect to one panel (when you actually buy these from Philips, you get a 4-panel driver. So I couldn't take a photo of two panels together.

Investing in OLEDs

oled — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:43:38 +0000

OLED is a new exciting technology, enabling thin, efficient and bright displays and lighting. Many people consider OLEDs to be the next-generation display, television and lighting tech. The potential sales of OLEDs in the next few years is billion of dollars. In fact, the OLED display market today is estimated at 600M$, and is forecasted to grow to 5.5B$ by 2015. OLED lighting will take off (hopefully) by 2011, and reach 6B$ in revenue in 2018.

OLED companies

There are many companies working on OLEDs, from big coorporations like Sony, Samsung, LG, Kodak and GE, to small research and IP companies.

There are several types of companies involved in this market:

Interview with OLED100.eu's project manager

oled — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:31:03 +0000

The OLED100.eu project is a European 3-year OLED lighting project. The 30M$ project is a followup to the OLLA project, ended in June 2008, and it is lead by Philips, OSRAM, Siemens, Novaled and the Franhofer IPMS.

Dr. Stefan Grabowsky, the project's manager has been kind enough to talk to us, answer a few questions and give us more info on the project. Dr. Stefan has a Ph.D in Physics, from the University of Duisburg. In 2000 he joined Philips Research labs. He's working on OLEDs for several years now, with a focus on device physics and OLED stack development. Since September 2008 he is the project manager for OLED100.eu.

Q: Stefan, thanks for taking the time to do this interview. Can you tell us a bit about OLED100.eu?
OLED100.eu is an European integrated research project that has brought together a consortium of experts from leading industry and academic organizations to accelerate the development of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technologies. It has received €12.5 million funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme to form the technological basis for efficient OLED applications for the general lighting industry in Europe.

Large-area OLED from Philips

GE to start printing OLED light panels next year

oled — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:29:14 +0000

EEtimes says that GE will start volume production of flexible OLED light panels in 2010. GE will print the OLEDs on polymer substrate, and use their ultra-high barrier coating. GE says that they managed to lower production cost by using roll-to-roll printing, and inexpensive substrates (the polymer ones).

GE are also thinking about possible new designs, and have released this video a month ago, which includes several flexible OLED light designs by art students, including wearable OLEDs for emergency safety gear, illuminated stairs, walls and signs in stores and a nice "wall peel" OLED lamp:

UDC awarded US Air Force project for ejection-safe, 6" flexible OLED display prototypes

oled — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:46:18 +0000

UDC has been awarded a 750K$ contract from the US Air Force, to work on a non-glass, ejection-safe, flexible OLED display prototype for prospective use by pilots in tactical cockpit settings.

The idea is to provide pilots with a replacement for printed maps and checklists typically held on their knees. The pilots will be able to 'wrap' the OLED around a cylinder for easy storage during flight.

UDC are working on their flexible OLED together with L3 and LG Display, and have already shown some wearable (bracelet) prototypes before. The displays are energy efficient, offer full-color video rate and have wireless communications capabilities.

UDC, LG and L3 will deliver four prototypes based on a bright 6” diagonal, full-color, low power consumption PHOLED display on flexible metal foil. These displays will then be wrapped around cylinders containing power supplies and wireless communications electronics.

A new Japanese company formed to work on white OLED technology

oled — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:58:09 +0000

Junji Kido, a professor from the Yamagata University in Japan has formed a new company, called Organic Lighting, to work on white OLEDs. The company's capital is only about 130,000$ currently, and it was setup in the Yamagata Universit'yes Venture Business Laboratory.

Organic Lighting plans to have equipment on the market by the beginning of 2010. It will not have its own factory. They also have plans for OLED emergency lights for public places. They hope to reach several tens of millions of US$ in revenue by 2014.

Professor Junji Kido is the inventor of the first white OLED.

Via iStockAnalyst

Samsung Haptic

oled — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:01:04 +0000

Samsung infra-red video SCH-W760 is now official

oled — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:08:54 +0000

Samsung has officially announced the SCH-W760, as reported/leaked in May. The phone is able to record infra-red video (Samsung calls it Infrared Video Telephony - IRVT), has a 2.8" WQVGA AMOLED, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, 3Mp camera and a microSD slot.

Via SamsungHub

AnalogicTech to start making drivers for small AMOLEDs

oled — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:57:51 +0000

AnalogicTech says it will start making drivers for small AMOLEDs. They claim that they have an innovative power supply waiting in the wings. "An AMOLED needs a positive supply and a negative supply. These need a positive boost converter and a negative boost converter," CEO Richard Williams said. "That's two coils but we are privately sampling a PSU that independently regulates the plus and minus rails from a single coil with a measured efficiency comparable with dual converters."

Gamma correction - this time to compensate for the different characteristics of red, green and blue OLED materials, is another target.

Via ElectronicsWeekly

Comprehensive review of 4D Systems OLED panels

oled — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:48:01 +0000

Metku.net has posted a comprehensive review of a couple of OLED modules (including a touch one) from 4D Systems. They like the panels, think they are very easy to use, but also notes that these are not the cheapest modules, of course, being OLED.

4D systems OLED touch panel

Metku tested two modules - a 0.96" OLED (µOLED-96-G1), and a 2.4" with Touch (µOLED-32024-P1T), and provide a lot of photos, code example, videos and explanations.

4D Systems launches new serial graphics controller for OLEDs and LCDs

oled — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:40:36 +0000

4D Systems has announced a new serial graphic controller designed for their µOLED and µLCD display panel. The controller provides a simple, flexible and effective, low-cost graphics user interface solution for rapid application development and time-to-market.

Goldelox SGC

Universal Display and Seiko Epson achieves new efficient red and green inkjet printable OLEDs

oled — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:43:47 +0000

Universal Display and Seiko Epson have been working on their inkjet printable, phosphorescent OLED technology and materials for quite some time... They have now announced new advances in performace:

A red P²OLED with CIE (0.67, 0.33), an efficiency of 10 candela per ampere (cd/A) and an operating lifetime of 20,000 hours, to 50% of initial luminance of 1,000 nits
A green P²OLED with CIE (0.33, 0.62), an efficiency of 34 cd/A and an operating lifetime of 25,000 hours.

Just a few days ago we talked to Seiko-Epson on their new inkjet OLED technology. They hope to have OLED TVs with this new tech in the market at around 2012.

NKK Switches OLED Rocker

oled — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:30:16 +0000

Introduction to Quantum Dots, interview with QD Vision's CTO

oled — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:02:19 +0000

Quantum Dots are getting a lot of attention lately, especially as a new SSL lighting technology. One of the companies that is working on this new tech is QD Vision. Their co-founder and CTO, Seth Coe-Sullivan has agreed to explain the technology, introduce the company, and answer a few questions.

Seth received his Ph.D in electrical engineering from MIT in 2005, writing a thesis on incorporating quantum dots in hybrid organic/inorganic LED structure. That's the technology basis of QD Vision. Seth was chosen as one of the top young entrepreneurs under the age of 30 by BusinessWeek.

QD Vision is a quantum-dot product company that delivers highly differentiated lighting solutions to major industries where color, power and design matter - these include lighting, displays, signage and defense. QD Vision’s Quantum Light™ platform enables step-change advances over other display and lighting solutions such as LCDs, plasma displays, LEDs and even organic LEDs (OLEDs). QD Vision is privately held, based in MA, US, and has several first-tier patents originating at MIT.

Q: Hello Seth, and thanks for agreeing to do this interview. Can you explain your technology? What exactly *are* quantum dots?
Quantum dots are tiny bits of semiconductor crystals with amazing optical properties that are determined not only by their material composition, but their size. QD Vision synthesizes these materials in solution, and formulates them into inks and films that we sell to our customers, enabling step-change performance and cost benefits. Our first products are Quantum Light^TM optics for solid state lighting devices, and our customers offer the most efficient, highest color quality LED lighting solutions on the market today.

MicroOLED to mass produce OLED microdisplays by the end of 2009

oled — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:53:32 +0000

MicroOLED says they will mass production their OLED microdisplay by the end of 2009. The MicroOLED microdisplays boast 25µm sub-pixel area, 25mW power consumption and good video-imaging quality, all that with 'TV resolution'.

MicroOLED OLED microdisplay

MicroOLED are also working on HDTV resolution displays with even smaller pixel pitch.

Via EETimes

Breathing patchwork OLED concept

oled — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:14:50 +0000

Yankodesign is showing the ultimate “stained glass” mosaic concept... It features tiles made from transparent OLEDs, and a sheet of clear acrylic on top. So you can paint using standard water based acrylic.

The OLEDs can stay transparent, and then it looks like regular stained glass window pane. They can also be turned on, to create a backlit mosaic...The white tile at the bottom right in this photo is the power tile, which drives the OLEDs and contains the light dimmer.

I usually do not post about 'design concepts', but I really like this one!

LG Display to buy OLED materials from Idemitsu Kosan

oled — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:48:02 +0000

LG Display says they have signed an agreement with Japan's Idemitsu Kosan for OLED materials. LG sees OLEDs growing rapidly, and they want a stable soruce for materials.

Idemitsu Kosan are also working with Sony and UDC on OLED display materials.

LG display plans to start making larger panels towards the end of 2009, and to sell OLED TVs in December 2009 or January 2010 in Korea. They expect the market to reach over 3B$ in 2010 (citing DisplaySearch numbers).