A top Samsung Mobile Display executive used his keynote...
A top Samsung Mobile Display executive used his keynote Thursday at the DisplaySearch Emerging Technologies Conference to repeat his prediction that large-screen OLED TVs are “on the horizon.” But the executive, Brian Berkeley, the company’s vice president of engineering, used…
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less sweeping language than when he predicted five months ago at the DisplaySearch Flat-Panel Display Conference that large-screen TVs could arrive on the market sooner than most people think (CED March 4 p1). OLED will be better for 3D TV than LCD or plasma technologies because it has the fastest response times and eliminates almost all crosstalk between left- and right-eye images, he said. But “Gen 8” fabs are “essential” for OLED TVs in screen sizes as large as 46 and 55, and Samsung Mobile Display is ready only to begin producing Gen 5.5 OLED substrates for smaller-screen smartphone applications, Berkeley said. High-volume Gen 5.5 OLED production is scheduled to start 2011 at the company’s factory in Tang-Jeong, South Korea, and to reach “full capacity” by 2012, he said. The company thinks OLED can become a “mainstream premium TV technology” by 2015, if it can develop technologies like backplanes and color patterning needed to make OLED TVs work, Berkeley said. Backplanes hold the active-matrix switches that turn the OLED’s individual pixels on and off. Not only do backplanes for large-screen TVs have tighter tolerances, they also require a lot of equipment to be produced, he said. Still, “backplane scaling is under way,” Berkeley said.