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Konica Minolta Launches Inkjet Printhead That Can Print OLED Displays

OLED panels are really expensive at present, but this situation may not last for very long now that Konika Minolta has released a breakthrough device. What the company did was build the world's first inkjet printhead capable of printing OLED displays, marking the first step towards roll-to-roll printing of OLE...

14 February 2012
07:45 GMT

UK May Get Samsung's 55-Inch OLED TV This Spring

Looks like that 3D-ready OLED TV we last saw at CES 2012 may be headed to the shores of the United Kingdom. Even though it wasn't expected before summertime, the company reportedly told CNET that it had sped things up quite a bit. In other words, the product is now scheduled for a release during spring. Al...

14 February 2012
03:23 GMT

Samsung and Corning Enter Partnership for Lotus Glass OLED

Corning may be enthusiastic about the Gorilla Glass 2, but it will also have a hand in the new OLED technology that Samsung hopes to eventually use in its products. Samsung and Corning have just announced a partnership dedicated to the development of a new display technology. Samsung will combine its OLED display...

2 February 2012
10:54 GMT

LG Will Start OLED Display Manufacture in July, 2012

Looks like OLED panels are far enough along in their development that at least one company knows when it will begin the shipment and promotion efforts in earnest. LG has announced that it has decided to begin mass production of OLED panels in July, 2012. For those unaware, LG, like Samsung, had a 55-inch OLED TV ...

27 January 2012
07:21 GMT

OLED Car Roofs Developed by BASF and Philips

It appears that General Motors is not the only company eager to outfit cars with special features, since BASF and Philips are also working on something. Philips and BASF are serious about using OLED in cars, though not just any type of OLED, but the transparent ones. Of course, calling the OLED sheet transparent i...

20 January 2012
09:04 GMT

Siemens Reveals Flexible OLED for Tablets and TVs

Ideas for bendable screens have been shown before, but Siemens, or at least its Osram lighting division, may have come up with the best one yet. The widely known engineering company revealed a flexible ribbon made of plastic, which can emit light. This is, basically, a foldable OLED strip, one that might actually...

17 January 2012
04:46 GMT

CES 2012: Samsung Demos 14-Inch Transparent Screen

Samsung's exhibition at CES 2012 is not limited to Chromeboxes or the expected range of displays and media products. What the company has also brought along, according to reports, is a very special mobile computer. Only in prototype stage for now, the 14-inch notebook features a transparent screen. Transpa...

12 January 2012
16:41 GMT

CES 2012: Samsung Demos 55-Inch OLED TV

Looks like Samsung has finally made the live introduction of a large Super OLED display, putting an end to LG's short-lived monopoly in this field. LG may have been the first company to formally reveal a 55-inch OLED TV, but Samsung has just done the same. No name was given to the model demonstrated during Sa...

10 January 2012
16:41 GMT

55-Inch OLED Display from LG Appears at CES 2012

It wasn't so long ago that organic light-emitting diodes were used only in small handsets, but the time has come for OLED to earn its place at the summit of monitor and TV display technologies. OLED has an advantage in how it doesn't need special backlighting, meaning that screens based on it are thinner ...

28 December 2011
15:21 GMT

New Nanotube Production Technique for OLED

Scientists with Aneeve Nanotechnologies announce the development of a low-cost, ink-jet printing technology that could make the production of organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) a lot faster and cheaper. The method was optimized to use carbon nanotubes. The company is based on the California NanoSystems Institute ...

1 December 2011
09:24 GMT

CES 2012 Will See a 55-Inch Samsung OLED TV

The end of the year is nigh, so, naturally, companies, Samsung and LG in this case, are getting ready for that event that happens every year in Las Vegas. CES 2012 (Consumer Electronics Show) will take place between January 10 and 13. This report says that Samsung will use that opportunity to launch an OLED TV wi...

21 November 2011
08:05 GMT

Corning Outdoes Itself Again with Lotus Glass

One might think that inventing a new display material wouldn't be such a big deal, but Corning made it a big deal once and, now, did it a second time. Corning made an official announcement in which it reveals that it invented a new type of glass that will have more than one benefit when used in displays. Liqu...

26 October 2011
09:56 GMT

Samsung Invests in OLED Maker Novaled

Samsung decided to extend its resource pool, so it took some money and handed it over to Novaled, who got a new shareholder in exchange for it. Samsung may have given up its stake in the hard disk drive market to Seagate, but this only means it can focus better on other areas. The field of smartphones and othe...

28 September 2011
10:17 GMT

Analysts: Sony Should Cut Vita Launch Price

Nintendo has announced that it is cutting the price of its 3DS handheld by between 30 and 40 percent depending on the market in order to make its device more attractive and a number of analysts believe that Sony should do the same for the upcoming PlayStation Vita and cut its price even before launch.At the moment So...

8 August 2011
10:36 GMT

Ultimate Tablet Is a 15.6-Incher with OLED And Special Scroll Wheel

There might be a fair resemblance between tablets today, but it seems at least one electronic product designer has a different idea about what the ultimate model should look and act like.Even by throwing just a passing glance over the IT market as it is now, one can easily notice that tablets are here to stay and fl...

9 April 2011
04:20 GMT

Highly Efficient Fluorescent OLED Created

A group of scientists in the United States announces the development of a new type of organic light-emitting diode (OLED), that shine fluorescent blue light with exception energy efficiency.The new light source was produced at the University of Michigan in Ann Harbor, and its primary application will most likely be i...

24 March 2011
08:47 GMT

Sony Demonstrates a Pair of Professional OLED Displays

OLED is one of those technologies that, for whatever reasons, hasn't become a good rival to LCD even though it should have the capacity, and Sony has just revealed a pair of monitors based on it.Sony, not long ago, issued a press release in which it detailed the newest additions to the Trimaster EL professional...

17 February 2011
07:03 GMT

New Metal-Free Organic Crystals Are Phosphorescent

A group of investigators in the United States announces the creation of a new type of metal-free organic crystals, which are capable of exhibiting phosphorescence when excited by ultraviolet light.This is the first time that this property has been obtained in materials other than non-organic compounds or organometall...

14 February 2011
05:45 GMT

PSP 2 Install Base Will Dwarf That of the Original PlayStation Portable

The new NGP, as Sony calls it, or PlayStation Portable 2, as the gaming world names it, has just been announced by the executives at Sony are saying that they are aiming for a very successful initial launch, with the ultimate goal being to have an installed base bigger than that of the current PSP. Kaz Hirai, who ...

4 February 2011
17:21 GMT

Mitsubishi Diamond Vision Is a Curved OLED Display

So-called hard times may have fallen upon the IT market, seeing as how barely any new products are getting released, but it seems Mitsubishi was still able to show off a couple of new display, both based on the OLED technology.Displays come in many shapes and sizes on both the consumer and the non-consumer oriented ...

4 February 2011
10:34 GMT

Olympus, Sony and Panasonic to Launch New Compact Cameras During CES, Including an OLED Model

The compact camera market is set to receive an important number of new additions at CES 2011, Olympus, Sony and Panasonic, all preparing new models with advanced features for the fair, Olympus' XZ-1 even packing a 3-inch OLED display. According to sources cited by 43rumors, the XZ-1 has the same 1:1.63 size 1...

30 December 2010
03:50 GMT

Sony Hires Nobel Prize Winner

Sony has been researching solar panels, OLED and other display technologies, among other things, for years, and it has now hired a certain professor to act as advisor for organic electronics.Since all Nobel Prize winners automatically get a lot of recognition and a strong voice in their field of expertise, it is not...

16 December 2010
08:14 GMT

Quantum Dots Could Replace OLED

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) have for some time been touted as the next big thing for the display industry, but thus far they have failed to meet expectations. Now, a company proposes moving on, and shifting research focus from OLED to quantum dot-based displays. One of the main things OLED have going for the...

7 December 2010
05:00 GMT

Flexible LED Sheets To Enable Glowing Tatoos

US researchers announce the development of a new type of technology, that could in the near future be used to enable a host of biomedical applications, as well as glowing tattoos. The team developed light emitting diodes (LED) with a twist, literally. Scientists managed to obtain thin, flexible sheets of LED devices,...

18 October 2010
04:32 GMT

Toshiba Focuses on LCDs, Drops OLED Development

Apparently, Samsung's dominance over the OLED market may soon strengthen, now that Toshiba has reportedly decided to give up on this segment completely in order to more easily focus on liquid crystal displays.OLED (organic light emitting diode) screens may not be especially widespread as large format screens, b...

2 October 2010
04:54 GMT

LG's IFA Exhibition Features a High-Quality 31-Inch OLED HDTV

Though OLED is more expensive to make than regular LCDs, it is still a very good display technology because it needs no backlights and has a very high color quality and brightness, and LG definitely appears to have put it to good use when it developed its 31-inch HDTV with a supposedly infinite contrast ratio.The IF...

4 September 2010
07:03 GMT

LG Also Turns heads With 0.29cm-Thick 31-inch OLED

Even though it's guaranteed to cause ripples at IFA wih the 3D FULL LED TV of 0.88cm, LG has also devised an even slimmer TV, namely a 31-inch OLED display that has an astounding thickness of only 0.29cm.While one of the 'stars' of LG's IFA exhibition is the 0.88cm LEX8 FULL LED 3D TV, the hardwa...

30 August 2010
07:10 GMT

Sony Breakthrough Leads to 'Rollable' OTFT OLED Display

There have been quite a slew of futuristic technological concepts unveiled over the years, each competing in terms of both feasibility and absurdity. Still, every so often, a hardware developer will come forth and actually demonstrate a concept, which may not be too far from practical implementation. Sony's late...

26 May 2010
04:49 GMT

New OLED Printer to Lower Display Costs

Researchers at DuPont Displays announce the development of a new production technique that can be used to manufacture organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) at a large scale. If widely used, the process could lower the price tag of existing OLED TVs considerably. At this point, costs associated with these devices are h...

17 May 2010
06:44 GMT

Revolutionary OLET Sustains Steady Light Sources

For many years, optical physicists have been trying to produce a class of advanced instruments known as electrically-pumped organic lasers, which could be used for a variety of applications. Over time, several groups attempted to use organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) to achieve this purpose, but the efficiency the...

3 May 2010
07:06 GMT

LG Invests in OLED, Production to Triple by 2011

Liquid crystal displays are, currently, the most convenient mainstream solution because they allow monitors and TVs to be not only capable of high quality images, but also become thinner than previous-generation solutions. There is, however, one drawback that this technology hasn't surpassed, namely its reliance...

22 April 2010
05:49 GMT

Sony Talks OLED, Makes 7.4-Inch Display for Professionals

LCDs are pretty much the current mainstream display solutions for everything from small handheld consumer electronics to large-format monitors and professional displays. However, Sony has been dealing in a different type of LCDs, one that has potential for better color sharpness and image brightness and, most importa...

13 April 2010
10:25 GMT

Sony Stops Selling OLED TVs in Japan

Sony has reportedly announced that it will no longer be making OLED TVs for the Japanese market and will end sales of such products as soon as its inventory is depleted, because the technology itself makes it difficult for OLED panels to be produced cheaply. This fact has impaired the company's ability to bring ...

16 February 2010
07:04 GMT

Apple Tablet E-Books Planned, No OLED Screen (Rumors)

Apple is reportedly in talks with The New York Times and HarperCollins Publishers about offering content for its upcoming tablet device. Other tablet-related rumors say Apple isn’t likely to equip the device with OLED screens. Read on for more details on both matters. HarperCollins Publishers and NY Times deal...

19 January 2010
04:47 GMT

Designer Suggests Apple Has Drained OLED Panel Supplies

A designer for a firm wishing to remain anonymous reportedly told TG Daily that Asian suppliers were experiencing 10.1-inch OLED, LED display shortages. In an obvious scenario, the news has turned everyone’s attention to Apple, the Cupertino-based electronics and software maker rumored to finally prepare the in...

12 January 2010
09:48 GMT

Samsung Reveals Transparent OLED Laptop

USB 3.0 is still a way off from becoming widespread, NVIDIA's Fermi has been getting delayed and Intel's Larrabee has been indefinitely put on hold. Not only that, but even the existing high-end graphics cards have been in short supply because of 40-nm yield problems. This slew of progress-hampering events ...

7 January 2010
03:34 GMT

Kodak Sells OLED Business to LG, Both Enter Cross-Patent Agreement

Kodak and LG announced not one but two agreements that would effectively end the patent litigation, which has been going on since earlier this year, involving a subset of their imaging technologies. The two agreements include Kodak's decision to sell all assets of its OLED business to LG, as well as signing a fu...

4 December 2009
10:55 GMT

New Hybrid Material for OLED and LCD

British scientists from the University of Hull have recently developed a new type of hybrid material, which may lead to an entirely new generation of OLED- and LCD-based displays, Technology Review reports. The material contains structures known as electroluminescent liquid crystals, which are apparently able to emit...

9 November 2009
15:31 GMT

New COLED Structures Brighter than Any Others

A group of companies and research institutes has recently announced that it has obtained groundbreaking results in its attempt to find alternative replacements for incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs. By using proprietary cavity organic light-emitting diode (COLED) technology and light-emitting polymers, the eff...

29 July 2009
05:57 GMT

OCZ Officially Announces the Sabre OLED Keyboard

OCZ Technology has just announced that its Sabre OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) multimedia keyboard, which the company has showcased earlier this year at CeBIT, in Germany, is now available for computer enthusiasts worldwide. The much-anticipated keyboard will be shipped with an intelligent management applicatio...

23 June 2009
04:14 GMT

iPhone 3.0 Specs Leaked by 'Reputable' Apple Source

The people at Apple iPhone apps claim to have been contacted by a source closely connected to Apple’s hardware team, who possesses knowledge of the next-generation iPhone's specifications and release date. The source has told the iPhone fan blog that iPhone 3.0 is launching on July 17. “Recently we ...

20 May 2009
03:16 GMT

KDDI au Spring 2009 Roadmap Unveiled

Japan's KDDI au has recently unveiled its plans for the spring of this year, which include some rather appealing devices, coming with OLED displays or 8-plus-megapixel cameras, as well as a 3D display and all the wireless connectivity options anyone would wish for. The new handsets are all candybar-style phones,...

2 February 2009
05:42 GMT

Mac Keyboard with Programmable OLED Keys - Concept

Speaking of out-of-the-ordinary keyboards, Cosmo Scharf has a design of himself, but it's not a tangible one. Still, it looks interesting and useful enough to share with the likes of you. “I've been planning this for a while now, and I've finally finished,” Scharf says. “My Apple key...

19 January 2009
07:05 GMT

Apple Wants LCD Screens from LG, Signs to Get Them [UPDATED]

LG Display has struck a long-term deal with Apple to produce 15-inch LCD displays for use in its devices. LG is also displaying a new type of screen at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week. The 1.4 millimeters thick display may not be overlooked by Apple. LG made it official today ...

12 January 2009
03:23 GMT

CMEL Showcases 0.5 mm, 25-inch OLED Display

Without a doubt, OLED technology represents the future of displays, whether we're talking about TVs or smaller devices, like netbooks or mobile phones. For this reason, everyone's trying to get on this bandwagon, be it well-established companies (such as Samsung SDI) or more low-profile (yet equally innovat...

30 October 2008
14:21 GMT

New Samsung 0.05 mm OLED Panel "Flaps" in the Wind

As you've been able to see from our articles related to the subject of OLED panels published over time, organic light-emitting diode displays tend to get smaller and smaller, attaining levels of thickness never before thought possible. And this is also the case with the latest announcement from Samsung, regardin...

29 October 2008
07:17 GMT

Kodak Develops Green Dopant-Based OLED Material

Kodak has been quite actively involved in the development of OLED displays over the past couple of years, and the results are beginning to show as we speak. First, it launched that wireless, OLED – only digital photo frame a while back, and now it's time for yet another innovation in the field, n...

26 October 2008
22:39 GMT

LG Showcases 19-Inch OLED Display

We've talked, time and time again, about the fact that OLED technology represents the future of displays, providing high-definition, high-contrast and crystal-clear images, while at the same time requiring a lot less power than their already "classic" LCD and PDP counterparts. Some of the most important names in...

15 October 2008
04:32 GMT

Kodak Intros World's First OLED Wireless Digital Photo Frame

Kodak occupies a very important place in the history of photography, although it was caught a bit unprepared by the rapid advent of digital cameras. Nevertheless, the company is doing everything in its power to regain the lost ground, so it also got actively involved on the digital photo frame market. Actually, it�...

17 September 2008
10:01 GMT

Tiny Telescopes Could Make LCDs More Efficient

Most of the light provided by the light source posted behind liquid crystal display panels never even reaches the eyes of the viewer. Light must pass through individual pixels whose brightness levels are controlled by small liquid crystals that modify their transparency according to the electric signal input. Therefo...

23 July 2008
04:43 GMT


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