PUBLIC MARKS from erik1974 with tags amoled & samsung-sdi

OLEDs have the potential to make exciting TVs (or computer displays). OLED are bright, ulta-thin, low power, and they show beautiful pictures. Sony will start selling OLED TVs in December 2007. But these will be small and pricey. The main issue is the lifetime (OLED displays degrade after a certain time), and also production cost are still high (Although theoretically OLEDs may become cheaper than LCD).

Samsung Electronics has introduced its first handset model equipped with Samsung SDI’s 2.2-inch active-matrix organic light emitting diode (AM OLED) panel at a retail price of 599,000 won.

Vitex's Barix thin-film barrier uses an organic and inorganic multi-layer structure. To demonstrate product compatibility, it was used to create the world's first high-resolution AMOLED, which leverages an amorphous silicon backplane on a flexible metal foil. This flexible display -- jointly developed by Universal Display Corp. and LG. Philips LCD -- was showcased at last month's Society for Information Display (SID) conference in Long Beach, Calif. Similar encapsulation was shown by Samsung SDI on the world's first, and thinnest, full-color top emission AMOLED on a metal foil during last year's show.