Display Technology News Roundup 09.15.20

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Transparent OLEDs for Subway Train Windows "LG Display has provided the world's first transparent OLED displays for subway train windows in the Chinese cities of Beijing and Shenzhen." via Printed Electronics World

BOE Raises OLED Yield – Tries to Enter Apple’s Supply Chain "BOE will retry to supply OLED screen panels to Apple starting this month. If BOE succeeds, it will provide OLED panels for the refurbished Apple iPhone 12. Apple will complete the review by the end of the year." via GizChina

Display component suppliers Radiant, Wah Hong report strong sales for August "Backlit unit (BLU) provider Radiant Opto-Electronics and optical film maker Wah Hong Industrial have reported strong sales for August, buoyed by robust demand for IT devices including notebooks and tablets supporting stay-at-home economy." via DigiTimes

Bring True-Black and High-Fidelity Colors to Your Automotive TFT-LCD Display "Now the LEDs are uniformly distributed along the panel surface and each LED, or a small zone comprised of a few LEDs (one to four), can be individually controlled from full luminosity to full darkness. With local dimming, deeper blacks and more impressive contrast in the picture are obtained." via ElectronicDesign

China’s Paper Victory at WTO Doesn’t Dissuade Trump From Trade War "The World Trade Organization’s ruling that the U.S. violated international regulations by imposing tariffs on more than $234 billion of Chinese exports failed to dissuade Washington of its ‘America First’ trade policy and will do little to alter the current trade environment." via Bloomberg

Display Technology News Roundup 07.16.20

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Color Tunable, Dual Layer OLED/QLED Hybrid "Heng Zhang, Qiang Su & Shuming Chen from Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen have recently published an article titled “Quantum-dot and organic hybrid tandem light-emitting diodes with multi-functionality of full-color-tunability and white-light-emission.” The article discusses a hybrid QLED and OLED device that can be used to produce a single pixel with tunable red/green/blue color for a display." via Display Daily

CSOT invests in JOLED for inkjet-printed OLED TV panels "While it is not feasible to use inkjet printing to produce smartphone-use OLED panels with resolution levels of 350-550ppi (pixel per inch), JOLED has trial-produced inkjet printing OLED panels of over 300ppi, which is sufficient for 21.6-inch 4K monitors (204ppi) and 65-inch 8K TVs (126ppi). JOLED keeps developing inkjet printing OLED toward a resolution level of 400ppi." via DigiTimes

Color Filters Will Make Foldable OLED Panels Thinner & Brighter "According to South Korean research firm UBI Research, color filters will replace polarizers in foldable OLED panels in the near future. This change will apparently make the display thinner and brighter. Major foldable OLED manufacturing companies are already working on the new display technology." via Android Headlines

Green Science Alliance Co., Ltd. Developed Quantum Dot + Resin Based Composite Material for any Kind of Shape and Emission Color "With this composite material, one can make any kind of shape and color by using any shape of mold, and various type of quantum dot which can emit various type of colors. " via PR Newswire

The U.S.-China trade war quietly escalates "The tariffs continue to impress a sizable tax on U.S. companies and consumers, adding additional costs and red tape for small businesses, farmers, manufacturers and households trying to stay afloat amid the pandemic." via Axios

Display Technology News Roundup 03.13.20

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In-display fingerprint sensors are coming to cheap phones with LCD screens "According to Lu Weibing, the general manager of the Redmi phone brand, the company’s research and development team has solved the problem of fitting these fingerprint sensors to LCD screens, indicating cheaper phones will receive this biometric security feature in the future." via Digital Trends

JDI LCD screens unveiled for VR headset applications "JDI’s new LCD panel measures 2.1 inches similar to those possibly used in Huawei’s ultra compact VR Glass is now entering mass-market, possibly meaning that smaller more compact virtual reality headsets are on the horizon." via Geeky Gadgets

Korean panel makers’ transformation from LCD to OLED meets virus hurdle "The world’s largest OLED provider, LG Display’s schedule to start operating its newest 8.5th generation OLED fab in Guangzhou, China, within the first quarter of the year appears inevitable to be postponed again to the second quarter over COVID-19 risks." via Korea Herald

Sharp Sues Vizio for LCD Patent Infringement "Each of the defendants allegedly infringed upon these patents in some way. For example, Sharp learned that the defendant CHOT is “making, using, importing, offering to sell, and selling” infringing LCD panels." via Law Street

COVID-19 To Further Dampen U.S.-China Trade "The data call into question China’s ability to purchase, as agreed in the trade deal, $77 billion worth of goods from the U.S. this year including agricultural and energy products, services and manufactured goods. " via Forbes

Display Technology News Roundup 02.14.20

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Coronavirus is slowing LCD production, and TV and monitor prices are expected to climb as a result "IHS said that preliminary estimates say that per-panel prices could rise $1 to $2, but could go as high as $3 to $5." via PC World

Samsung and LG look to sell off major LCD production factories worth $33bn "The two TV giants currently hold a $33bn stake in the LCD market, but, with the overall LCD business currently valued at almost $106bn, the sale of these production plants would mark a significant shift in the TV industry away from LCD and towards other technologies, such as Quantum Dot and OLED. " via What Hifi?

Quantum Dots: The Long Road Towards Emissive QLEDs "The ultimate emissive material might arguably be quantum dots (QDs). This is because it may offer high IQE and ultra-narrow FWHM, leading to very wide color gamut displays." via IDTechEx

Plessey and Axus combine to push GaN-on-Si micro-LED "Plessey and Axus Technology, the provider of CMP, wafer thinning and wafer polishing surface-processing machines, are collaborating to bring GaN-on-Silicon monolithic microLED technology to market." via Electronics Weekly

China Just Cut Tariffs on U.S. Goods. Here Are the Products That Benefit. "China’s finance ministry said the measures were a bid “to promote the healthy and stable development” of economic and trade relations between the U.S. and China. Officials said China hoped to work with the U.S. to eliminate all increased tariffs." via Barron's

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Apple helping out LCD supplier Japan Display with shorter payment terms "Apple is continuing to support the iPhone screen manufacturer Japan Display by shortening its payment periods, the time between delivery of screens and Apple paying for them. It's part of a short term plan to stabilize the screen firm's finances, and comes alongside Apple's previous moves to help the company." via Apple Insider

Automotive-Grade Backlight LED Driver is Optimized for LCD Panels "ROHM’s latest LED driver IC, the BD81A76EFV-M, is designed for high-illumination LCD backlighting in automotive instrument clusters, center information displays, and car navigation." via Electronic Design

New 3D printing technique enables freeform, transparent OLED displays "A materials science and engineering team from Korea's Yonsei University has developed a 3D printing technique enabling OLED screens to be printed into transparent structures of any shape, meaning nearly anything can become a see-through color display." via New Atlas

Apple iPhone Supplier Universal Display Smashes Earnings Estimates "Universal sales rose more than 25% in the third quarter. “We are pleased to report another quarter of solid results,” CFO Sidney Rosenblatt said in the company’s news release. “During the quarter, OLED activity continued to gain strength on a global scale.”" via Barron's

China Doubts Long-Term Trade Deal Possible With Trump "They remain concerned about President Donald Trump’s impulsive nature and the risk he may back out of even the limited deal both sides say they want to sign in the coming weeks." via Bloomberg

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Avnet Introduces New Development Platform for Custom LCD Display Solutions "SimplePlus is a unique platform that simplifies the process of customizing LCD touch display solutions for applications spanning markets which include industrial automation, medical, transportation, and more." via Tucson.com

Chunghwa Picture Tubes in talks with suppliers to restart production "...the company suddenly halted production at its plants in Longtan and Yangmei districts in Taoyuan in the wake of its announcement last week that it was planning to seek bankruptcy protection." via Focus Taiwan

Sanan to maintain leadership via capacity expansion and innovation "For future operations, Sanan said it focuses R&D on mini LED and micro LED. In February 2018, Sanan signed with Samsung Electronics for the latter to pay US$16.83 million in advance for the former's exclusive supply of mini LED chips." via DigiTimes

LG will make OLED TVs that roll up like posters a reality in 2019 "However, things will change next year, as the Korean giant is hoping to revive its ailing TV business by bringing this novel form factor to life in the real world." via BGR

U.S. and China Blame Each Other at the WTO for the Current Trade War "Instead of battling through tariff tradeoffs, the countries have taken to blaming each other behind closed doors at the World Trade Organization, Reuters reports." via Fortune

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Chinese Regime Laying Siege to Global Screen-Making Industry "South Korean prosecutors announced that it indicted seven individuals—six Korean nationals and one Chinese national surnamed Li—for violating South Korea’s Industrial Technology Protection Act while attempting to pass on core OLED technology to an unnamed Chinese OLED company..." via The Epoch Times

Apple's screen solutions threaten suppliers' security "Apple's decision to stick with cheaper LCD screens creates further uncertainty for its screen suppliers, many of whom have already suffered a hit from the tech giant's efforts to manufacture its own screens." via Supply Chain Dive

LG Display to open China OLED plant "The South Korean display maker will manufacture 130,000 OLED plates (which are divided into screens) each month once it gets China's go-ahead for the expansion of the plant, according to Kang In Byeong, LG Display's chief technology officer." via The Business Times

Samsung reportedly working on quantum dot OLED TV hybrid "By using only one color/material of OLED, the manufacturing costs go way down since it's easier to manufacture ... QDs have nearly 100% efficiency, significantly better than filters, so in theory the hybrid TVs will be much brighter." via CNet

US-China trade war threats prompt Taiwan firms to consider moving away from mainland "Taiwanese businesses are weighing up whether to move manufacturing operations from the Chinese mainland if the US trade dispute worsens." via South China Morning Post