Friday, March 13, 2009

LG fully focussed on OLEDs for the future

LG has decided that the credit crunch isn't a bad thing - it's a golden opportunity. It has vowed to increase spending on 'future growth engines', including a big look at OLEDs and solar cells. After being one of the earliest researchers of OLED tech, LG has seemingly scaled back its efforts in the burgeoning tech category, despite the arrival of an LG OLED TV being apparently imminent. But the company will commit more money into these future technologies, which also includes more efficient solar cells and batteries for electric cars. As you can see... futuristic. The main aim will be to improve the efficiency and yield rates of OLED tech, i.e. losing less panels during the manufacturing process, as this is currently one of the main reasons why OLED costs so much more than LCD on the market.

OLEDs ready for the mainstream

A new display technology that is now starting to receive wide acceptance in the market is Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) displays with sizes ranging from 0.66-in thumbnails to 40-in OLED TV screen now available from Samsung. There were even rumours floating around prior to the US CES 2009 show that Samsung would be launching a 50-in OLED TV screen there. Source: Electronics News