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Samsung Galaxy Tab S12+ / S12 Ultra

Ron Mertens — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:53:41 +0300

Samsung's Galaxy Tab 12+ sports a 12.6" 120Hz 1600 nits (peak) 1752x2800 AMOLED display (produced by SDC) and a 3 nm MediaTek Dimensity 9500 chipset.

The Galaxy Tab 12 Ultra, Samsung's flagship tablet, offers a 14.6-inch 2960x1848 AMOLED, a MediaTek Dimensity 9500 paired with an upgraded 3D Vapor Chamber for superior sustained cooling, and up to 16 GB of RAM and 1TB of storage (with a microSD slot).

O-Vision (Aoshi) Technology progresses with its 12-inch OLED microdisplay line in Hangzhou

Ron Mertens — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:34:40 +0300

O-vision (Aoshi) Technology announced that it has received the permit from the local government of Zhejiang province, to go ahead with its plan to build its 12-inch OLED microdisplay fab in Hangzhou. O-Vision Aoshi will also build its new headquarters and a new R&D center in the same location.

In May this year, Aoshi Technology raised 100 million RMB (almost $15 million USD), in its Series B funding round. The funds will mostly be invested into the construction of its new fab, known as the K2 factory (not to be confused with BCDTek's K2 OLED microdisplay fab). The K2 will have a monthly capacity of 5,000 wafers, and Aoshi says it will enter mass production by the end of 2027. Aoshi currently operates a small-scale pilot line (K1) in Nanhai, Foshan.

LG Electronics to develop a next-gen large-screen OLED and LCD based display for Porsche

Ron Mertens — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:59:53 +0300

According to reports from Korea, LG Electronics and Porsche are co-developing a next-generation large-screen display for Porsche's future cars. The project is funded (at least partially) by the Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MTIE).

Porsche's 2025 Cayenne E-SUV with its curved OLED

The project goals is to develop a curved center information display CID, that combines both LCD and OLED displays. The project's title is "Development of a Large-Screen, High-Curvature Head-Unit CID for Autonomous Driving and Infotainment Services", and it will run until the end of 2028. LG Electronics actually started this project a year ago, but it is only now made public.

OLED display backplanes, part 6 of 7: HMO (high-mobility oxide)

OLED-Info-Editor — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0300

This is the sixth article in our OLED display backplane series. In the previous parts we covered PMOLED, a-Si, LTPS, oxide TFT and LTPO. Here we examine high-mobility oxide (HMO), a new generation of oxide semiconductor that aims for LTPS-class current with oxide’s low power and large-area scalability, and that Apple is already evaluating as LTPO’s successor.

The problem HMO sets out to solve

By now the central tension of this series should be clear. Conventional oxide TFTs top out around 10 cm²/V·s in mass production, which is fine for televisions and many panels, but not enough to drive the highest-resolution, highest-refresh OLEDs at low power, particularly the new class of IT and monitor panels. LTPS has the mobility but neither the scalability nor the low leakage. LTPO has both, but only by stitching two separate processes together at extra cost and complexity, and a reduced total production capacity.

The Korean government may provide financial support for LGD's FLiPP maskless OLED production project

Ron Mertens — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:07:28 +0300

In August 2026, LG Display officially announced that it has developed a new maskless OLED production process, branded as FLiPP, or FMM-Less innovative Pixel Patterning. LG says that its FLiPP OLEDs will offer greater flexibility in mass production as well as high brightness, long lifetime and increased power efficiency. It is understood that the plan LG announced a few months ago, to invest 3 trillion Won (around $2.1 billion USD) in upgrading its OLED laptop and tablet panel production, will go towards its FLiPP 8.5-Gen fab it is set to build.

It is now reported that the Korean government is looking into providing financial support for LG, with the launch of a new project by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE). The proposed project is titled "8th-Generation Photo-Patterning Technology and High-Efficiency, Long-Life Element Development for Securing Next-Generation OLED Industrial Competitiveness", and it is one of several industrial projects that MOTIE is considering.

Honor launches its Watch 6 Pro smartwatch, the world's first product to sport an OLED display produced using a lithography process

Ron Mertens — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:12:03 +0300

Honor just announced its latest smartwatch, the Watch 6 Pro which sports a 1.5" 466 x 466 5,500 nits (peak brightness) tandem AMOLED. The high-end display is produced by Visionox using its ViP maskless process - this is perhaps the first commercial display that is produced with a maskless OLED process.

A few months ago Visionox started producing ViP smartphone and wearable OLED panels, at its V3 pilot line. Indeed we reported already that the company has signed up Xiaomi and Honor as its first two customers - it's good to now have an actual commercial product.

A Walk Down Memory Lane - Q4 2026: OLED History from 20, 10, and 5 Years Ago

OLED-Info-Editor — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:00:10 +0300

It's time for another stroll through our OLED history article series, in which we look back 20, 10, and 5 years and revisit what the OLED industry was up to. So grab a warm drink - it's the last quarter of the year, after all - and join us as we remember the fuel-cell laptops, the soy-drink OLED fab and the rollable phones that are always just around the corner.

20 years ago - Q4 2006

In late 2006, OLED was still mostly a PMOLED business - sub-displays for clamshell phones and small screens for MP3 players. DisplaySearch counted 21.2 million OLED shipments and $132.5 million in revenues in Q3 2006, and Samsung SDI led the market with a 24% share (5.1 million units), ahead of Taiwan's RiTdisplay. For some perspective, fifteen years later Samsung Display alone shipped almost 125 million smartphone OLEDs in a single quarter.

The OLED Marketplace now lists a unique 4.01" flexible touch strip AMOLED display

OLED-Info-Editor — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:50:15 +0300

We are happy to update that the OLED Marketplace now lists a unique new display - a 4.01" 192x960 flexible AMOLED strip display, produced by Visionox. This long and narrow panel includes an integrated capacitive touch panel.

The display has an active area of 20 x 100 mm, is only 0.81 mm thick, and can be bent down to a 15 mm radius. It offers 350 nits of brightness, and a response time under 1 ms. The strip-like format makes it suitable for wearables such as smart bands and bracelets, curved device edges and industrial designs.

Samsung looks to Halftone Black PDL to reduce the cost of its polarizer-free AMOLED process

Ron Mertens — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 08:14:40 +0300

Polarizer-free OLEDs were introduced a few years ago, as they enable higher-efficiency, and also a thinner form factor. The demand for these OLEDs is increasing - Omdia estimates that polarizer-free OLED display shipments will more than double in 2026, to reach 72 million units (and continue to grow to reach almost 250 million units in 2032).

Samsung Display was the first company to introduce this technology, which it now brands as LEAD AMOLED technology. The main disadvantage of polarizer-free OLEDs is the higher production cost, as several photolithography steps are required.

Meta formally announces its OLED microdisplay VR Glasses

Ron Mertens — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 11:39:50 +0300

Today Meta announced the VR Glasses, which are based on dual 2412x2288 OLED microdisplays, offering a 70x60 degrees FOV. The Glasses are based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon Reality Elite and feature 12GB of RAM, and hand, eye and face tracking sensors. The headset has no onboard computing, and everything relies on a 300-gram puck to provide power and data via a flexible fiber optic cable.

Meta says it will start shipping the VR Glasses in the spring of 2027, with a price tag of $1300. This is a much higher price than Meta's own Quest 3 ($600) - but much lower than Apple's $3,500 Vision Pro. This is an interesting move by Meta, and now the big question is whether consumers will agree to pay such a high price for such a headset.

India investigates LG and Samsung as both companies are suspected to pay lower tariff on imported OLED TV panels

Ron Mertens — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:54:07 +0300

According to Reuters, the Indian government is investigating LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics, as it is suspected that the two companies paid lower tariffs on imported OLED TV panels. These panels were later assembled into TVs in India.

Indian officials say that the two companies paid 5% tariffs on the OLED panels, but this tariff rate is reserved for older LCD TVs aftermarket panels. New OLED TV panels should have been subject to a 15% tariff.

Researchers develop photoresistive polymer OLED devices based on the core-shell principle

Ron Mertens — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:41:47 +0300

Researchers from ETH Zurich, in collaboration with researchers from RMIT University in Melbourne, developed polymer OLED emitters, that can also serve as photoresists - which means that these materials can be precisely patterned using photolithography. This could open the door to the production of ultra-fine polymer OLED devices.

The research explain that they have developed a new class of long-chain (polymer) light-emitting molecules, that can resist harsh chemical treatment. To enable this, the researchers used the core-shell principle: the light emitting molecules are placed at the center surrounded by a star-like material pattern. The outer ends of the structure react to UV light.

Counterpoint: Chinese OLED material makers to increase their market share, and generate $603 million in revenues by 2030

Ron Mertens — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:51:51 +0300

According to Counterpoint (DSCC), Chinese material suppliers will increase their OLED material market share, and will capture 50% of the China market by 2028 (up from 43% in 2025), and will generate $603 million in revenues by 2030.

The China-based material makers will get a boost in 2028, when the new 8.6-Gen OLED fabs in China will begin full-scale production, and these fabs are expected to increase their adoption of locally produced materials.

Fraunhofer IPMS researchers develop a highly efficient WRGB OLED microdisplay on a 28 nm CMOS process

Ron Mertens — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:19:58 +0300

Researchers from the Fraunhofer IPMS have developed a new WRGB (WOLED) OLED microdisplay, based on a 28 nm CMOS process. The researchers say that this new display is highly efficient and features the smallest pixels to date.

The new display offers a 720x540 resolution - with a subpixel size of 2.52x252 µm² - to enable exceptionally high pixel densities of 5040 PPI. The flexible backplane architecture combines two driving concepts: frame-based (for continuous updates) and memory-based (for static content).

LG Display launches a 24.5" 720Hz OLED monitor panel, specifically targeting eports gaming

Ron Mertens — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:24:20 +0300

LG Display announced that it is starting to mass produce 24.5" FHD (1920x1080) 720Hz gaming monitor OLED panels. The company says that this is the first-ever OLED panel tailored specifically for esports.

LGD says that standard esports monitors are almost always in the 24-inch class, to enable players to view the entire screen at a glance, smaller than other gaming monitor sizes. Beyond the high refresh rate (720Hz), the new monitor offers the fastest OLED response time (0.02 ms).

UDC's UVJC to unveil its first commercial vapor jet deposition system next month

Ron Mertens — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:36:54 +0300

In 2025, Universal Display Corporation (UDC) established a new Singapore-based subsidiary, Universal Vapor Jet Corporation (UVJC) to handle its OVJP technology development, after it closed down its California OVJP center. Later UDC announced that UVJC has opened its new headquarters and R&D center, and that the company plans to invest $39 million over the next years in tools, equipment and talent to accelerate the research and commercialization of UVJP. The company's main next goal is to look for new applications for its production platform - across semiconductors, displays, life sciences, and clean energy.

Today Universal Vapor Jet Corporation announced that next month it will unveil NovaJet, the first commercial system built on its proprietary Universal Vapor Jet Printing (UVJP) platform. The company says that UVJP can support a more precise, flexible and efficient path from materials research through manufacturing, in potential applications across semiconductor and advanced electronics manufacturing.

Embraer delivers the first Praetor 600E aircraft with a 42" touch OLED Smart WIndow

Ron Mertens — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 04:00:06 +0300

Embraer announced that it has delivered the first Praetor 600E aircraft to Flexjet. The new aircraft has a newly design cabin with all-new seating - and includes technologies aimed at elevating comfort, productivity and connectivity.

One of the new technologies that Embraer implemented is the Smart Window - which is a 42-inch touch-enabled OLED panel that can be used for conference, video streaming - or to show real-time external views (using three externally mounted cameras).

HKC ships the first batch of flexible smartphone OLED panels produced at its H6 5.5-Gen line in Shenzhen

Ron Mertens — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:30:43 +0300

Shenzhen-based display maker HKC announced that it has shipped the first batch of flexible smartphone OLED panels out of its H6 5.5-Gen AMOLED production line in Shenzhen, a production line it has acquired from Royole early last year.

This is a great step forward for HKC, and marks its entrance into the (small) club of OLED panel producers.

Omdia: OLED monitor panel makers to shift focus to the enterprise market instead of gaming

Ron Mertens — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:08:00 +0300

In recent years, we have seen increased demand for OLED monitor panels, mainly from the gaming industry, as OLED makers managed to offer panels that offer high resolution, high refresh rates, and an excellent image quality.

Omdia estimates that OLED monitor panel revenue grew 74% in 2025, generating around $2.8 billion, and will grow to $3.6 billion in 2026 - up from 30% from 2025. Most of the demand, currently is from gaming monitors, and so OLED panel makers have focused on increased refresh rates to improving the gaming experience.

LG to team up with Hanwha Systems to develop AMOLED displays for fighter jets

Ron Mertens — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:00:07 +0300

The Korean ministry of trade, industry and resources is launching a new project to develop AMOLED displays for fighter jet cockpits.

The project will utilize LG Display's OLED display technology, and Hanwha Systems' defense fighter jet system experience.

A QD interlayer introduced to phosphorescent OLED device as a plasmonic coupling medium increases efficiency by 30%

Ron Mertens — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 03:00:06 +0300

Researchers from Korea's Kyung Hee University, in collaboration with researchers from the University of St Andrews, are proposing a new architecture to increase the light output of phosphorescence OLED devices. Experiments have shown a 30% increase in EQE.

This novel architecture includes a new colloidal quantum dot (QD) interlayer as a plasmonic coupling medium in an inverted phosphorescent OLED device. This new layer helps to mitigate the efficiency and stability losses arising from waveguide and surface plasmon polariton modes.

Samsung Display optimizes its laptop OLED driver ICs to increase power efficiency

Ron Mertens — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:20:48 +0300

As Samsung is continutes to accelerate its laptop OLED display development, the company is ready to unveil a new technology to reduce the power consumption of its modules.

This new technology actually focuses on the components around the AMOLED display - including the ICs and driver chips. Unfortunatly, SDC did not yet disclose the technologies it implemented, but hopefulyl it will reveal the panels soon, as it has already filed for the trademark LP OLED (likely Laptop OLED).

Garmin admits the 3,000 nits OLED on the Garmin Fenix 9 is good enough, no immediate plans to release a microLED edition

Ron Mertens — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:31:07 +0300

A year ago, Garmin launched the world's first microLED wearable, the Fenix 8 Pro MicroLED smartwatch, with a 1.4" 454x454 round microLED display (produced by AUO), that offers up to 4,500 nits of brightness.

That display was received quite well, and reviewers praised the high brightness, and excellent viewing angles. The microLED, however, came with a price: the watch is much thicker than the AMOLED alternative (the touch layer was not integrated into the display), the power consumption is almost double, and at launch it had a $700 premium.

Samsung to build a $216 million 12-inch direct-emission OLED microdisplay line

Ron Mertens — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:40:21 +0300

Reports from Korea suggest that Samsung Display plans to invest 300 billion Won ($216 million USD) to build a full-scale 12-inch direct-emission OLED microdisplay production line. The company will make a final decision by the end of September.

A 1.3" 12000 nits OLED microdisplay (Samsung Display)

Samsung's plan is to build a 12-inch fab, likely at its A2 production line in Asan (where it already operates a pilot OLED microdisplay line). The new line will have a capacity of 3,000 12-inch wafers per month. This is enough to produce almost 30 million 0.5" microdisplays annually, or almost 2 million 1.4" displays.

OLED-Info Q&A with LORDIN on its platinum-based blue phosphorescent OLED emitter platform

OLED-Info-Editor — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:49:00 +0300

South Korea-based LORDIN is developing a platinum-based blue phosphorescent OLED emitter platform, based on its proprietary ZRIET mechanism and ZETPLEX molecular design. The company recently disclosed the molecular structure of its ZETPLEX Pt dopant and started shipping evaluation materials to panel makers and material suppliers.

LORDIN's platinum-based blue phosphorescent emitter platform (illustration)

We had the opportunity to ask LORDIN about its technology, how it compares to UDC's PHOLEDs and to Hyperfluorescence/PSF emitter systems, its commercialization timeline, its supply chain in India, and whether platinum presents any disadvantages. We thank LORDIN for this informative Q&A!

The OLED Marketplace now offers an MCP server — connect AI assistants directly to our display catalog

Ron Mertens — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:00:10 +0300

We're happy to announce a new, free service on the OLED Marketplace: an MCP server that lets AI assistants connect directly to our display catalog.

MCP (the Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that lets AI tools talk to external data sources. With our new endpoint, you can point Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP-compatible assistant at the OLED Marketplace and have it search our catalog and read full display specifications on your behalf — pulling live data straight from our database rather than whatever the model happened to memorize.

So instead of browsing the site yourself, you can simply ask your AI assistant things like "Find round AMOLED displays around 1.4 inches" or "What's the resolution and brightness of this panel?" — and it will answer from the real, current catalog.

New Opportunities for OLED Display Makers to Sell Downgraded and Contaminated D₂O

OLED-Info-Editor — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:00:05 +0300

Purification and upgrading capabilities of firms like Isowater enable D₂O recycling while supporting efforts to address the growing global shortage of high purity D₂O

Advanced capabilities to purify, refine and upgrade deuterium oxide (D₂O, or “heavy water”) are expanding opportunities for OLED display manufacturers to sell D₂O that has been downgraded and contaminated during fabrication.

These capabilities also support the efforts of companies like Isowater Corporation, a world-leading supplier and recycler of deuterium oxide, to meet the growing demand for high purity D₂O at a time of dwindling global supplies.

OLED display backplanes, part 5 of 7: LTPO, the hybrid backplane behind always-on and 1-120Hz displays

Ron Mertens — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:00:05 +0300

This is the fifth article in our OLED display backplane series. In the previous article, we examined oxide TFTs (IGZO), the transparent metal-oxide semiconductor that brought ultra-low leakage and large-area uniformity to OLED TVs and monitors. Here, we look at LTPO - the hybrid backplane that puts LTPS and oxide transistors on the same panel to enable variable refresh rates from about 1Hz to 120Hz.

Two materials, one backplane

Despite the name, LTPO - low-temperature polycrystalline oxide - is not a new semiconductor at all. It is a hybrid backplane that places both LTPS and oxide (IGZO) transistors on the same panel and uses each one where it is best. The idea was originally developed by Apple, which filed its foundational patents around 2014, and it has since become the defining backplane of the premium mobile display.

Samsung Display latest M16 OLED stack enable 2K 165Hz AMOLED panels, up to 10,000 nits brightness

Ron Mertens — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:43:26 +0300

Samsung Display announced its latest M16 OLED material stack, that enables the world's first 2K 165K smartphone AMOLED panel. The first M16 2K 165Hz panel will debut in the upcoming Vivo iQOO 16 gaming smartphone. The M16 stack supports peak brightness of up to 10,000 nits.

Samsung says that it has managed to reduce the power consumption by around 30% compared to its previous-generation smartphone AMOLEDs, even though it has increased the resolution from 1.5K to 2K.

Rayvision's complete OLED microdisplay line is now available on the OLED Marketplace

OLED-Info-Editor — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:00:07 +0300

OLED microdisplay producer Rayvision Technology operates an 8-inch silicon-OLED fab in Guangxi that entered production in 2023, and is building a $415 million 12-inch fab in Changsha. We have now added the company's complete microdisplay catalog - nine panels, from 0.39" to 0.96" - to our OLED Marketplace.

The new panels include a 0.39" 1024x768, a 0.60" 800x600, a 0.61" 1280x1024, a 0.71" 1920x1080, and the largest of the line, a 0.96" 1400x1050.