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With more top-tier smartphone makers deploying OLED screens, the self-emissive display is forecast to outrun the traditional LCD display in terms of the adoption rate next year, according to research firm IHS. The penetration rate of OLED in the smartphone market has been on an upward trend from 40.8 percent in...Views: 1070 Update date: 09/15/2018
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AU Optronics Corp. has debuted the world's highest resolution and full color TFT driven micro LED display technology at SID's Display Week 2018 in Los Angeles on May 22, offering inspiring new directions for next-generation technology development. Micro LED is a form of self-emissive...Views: 806 Update date: 09/01/2018
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Amid growing demand for active matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) panels for smartphones, shipments of flexible AMOLED panels are expected to account for more than 50 percent of total AMOLED panel shipments by 2020. According to IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical...Views: 1027 Update date: 08/24/2018
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In the era of smartphones, we have experienced revolutions in screen size, from the initial 1-inch monochrome display to the now-common 6.0-inch display. It allows us to do more things with our handsets. Recently, Statista announced last year that Chinese have used phones for more than 3 hours on average each day....Views: 1066 Update date: 08/18/2018
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In its recently released Mid-Year Update to The McClean Report 2018, IC Insights forecasts that the 2018-2022 global GDP and IC market correlation coefficient will reach 0.95, up from 0.88 in the 2010-2017 time period. IC Insights depicts the increasingly close correlation between worldwide GDP...Views: 1010 Update date: 08/09/2018
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As organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays are used in more smartphones and high-end flat panel TVs, panel makers have boosted their investments in new OLED display fab construction. As a result, the global production capacity of AMOLED panels — including both red-green-blue (RGB) OLED and white OLED (WOLED)...Views: 944 Update date: 08/01/2018
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A new manufacturing technique uses a process similar to newspaper printing to form smoother and more flexible metals for making ultrafast electronic devices. The low-cost process, developed by Purdue University researchers, combines tools already used in industry for manufacturing...Views: 870 Update date: 07/25/2018
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With every smartphone brand applying the 18:9 and wider aspect ratio screens to its newer models, the rate of adoption is expected to quicken in the second half of 2018. Smartphones using 18:9 and wider aspect screens are forecast to increase to 66 percent of total smartphone shipments in the third quarter of 2018,...Views: 917 Update date: 07/20/2018
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Researchers at Kyushu University’s Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) in Japan have demonstrated a way to split energy in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and surpass the 100% limit for exciton production, opening a promising new route for creating low-cost and high-intensity...Views: 843 Update date: 07/10/2018
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Researchers have demonstrated large-scale fabrication of a new type of transparent conductive electrode film based on nanopatterned silver. Smartphone touch screens and flat panel televisions use transparent electrodes to detect touch and to quickly switch the color of each pixel. Because silver is less brittle and...Views: 798 Update date: 07/06/2018