LG opens new OLED manufacturing plant


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| 28 November 2015




CE giant LG appears to be making a significant stride in being able to address the price penalty associated with OLED displays.



For the last 15 years or so, both inorganic and organic light emitting diodes have been regarded as the ideal candidate flat panel display technologies, offering advantages compared with other forms – in particular LCD – in terms of viewing angle, display width, power usage, colour gamut, response time and resolution. Yet all of this has come at a cost: literally. OLED and iOLED screens have to date suffered from high price tags due to their expensive manufacturability, unlike LCD.

However it would seem, according to reports by the Reuters news agency, that LG is aiming to drive down this cost by investing nearly $9 billion in a state of the art OLED manufacturing plant in South Korea. The plant will produce from the first half of 2018 displays that will see use in a variety of end user devices from smartwatches and smartphones to large-screen TVs.