LG Display First to Verify Commercialization-Level Performance of Blue Phosphorescent OLED Panels

[Nomad76]

LG Display, the world's leading innovator of display technologies, announced today that it has become the world's first company to successfully verify the commercialization-level performance of blue phosphorescent OLED panels on a mass production line. The achievement comes about eight months after the company partnered with UDC to develop blue phosphorescence, and is considered a significant step closer to realizing a "dream OLED" display.

In the display industry, "dream OLED" refers to an OLED panel that achieves phosphorescence for all three primary colors of light (red, green, and blue). OLED panel light emission methods are broadly categorized into fluorescence and phosphorescence. Fluorescence is a simpler process in which materials emit light immediately upon receiving electrical energy, but its luminous efficiency is only 25%. In contrast, phosphorescence briefly stores received electrical energy before emitting light. Although it is technically more complex, this method offers luminous efficiency of 100% and uses a quarter as much power as fluorescence.



However, achieving blue phosphorescence has remained a major challenge even more than 20 years after the commercialization of red and green phosphorescence. This is due to blue, among the three primary colors, having the shortest wavelength and demanding the greatest energy.

LG Display has solved this issue by using a hybrid two-stack Tandem OLED structure, with blue fluorescence in the lower stack and blue phosphorescence in the upper stack. By combining the stability of fluorescence with the lower power consumption of phosphorescence, it consumes about 15% less power while maintaining a similar level of stability to existing OLED panels.

In particular, LG Display is the first to succeed in reaching the commercialization stage of blue phosphorescent OLED panels, where performance evaluation, optical characteristics, and processability on actual mass production lines should all be confirmed. The company has already completed commercialization verification with UDC.

LG Display has independently filed patents for its hybrid blue phosphorescent OLED technology in both South Korea and the United States.

The company will showcase a blue phosphorescent OLED panel featuring two-stack Tandem technology at SID Display Week 2025, the world's largest display event, in San Jose, California from May 11th (local time).

At the show, LG Display will be unveiling a blue phosphorescent OLED panel featuring two-stack Tandem technology applied to a small and medium-sized panel that can be applied to IT devices such as smartphones and tablets. As more and more products require high definition and high efficiency such as AI PCs and AR/VR devices, the application of blue phosphorescence technology is expected to expand rapidly.

"The successful commercialization of blue phosphorescence technology, which has been called the final piece of the 'dream OLED' puzzle, will become an innovative milestone towards the next generation of OLED," said Soo-young Yoon, CTO and Executive Vice President of LG Display. "We expect to secure a leading position in the future display market through blue phosphorescence technology."

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[Simon.J]

When we can see this type of display in laptops?
Under what name(dream OLED)?
What are the targeted formats?
Thanks

 

[HD64G]

When we can see this type of display in laptops?
Under what name(dream OLED)?
What are the targeted formats?
Thanks

Hybrid Tandem Oled is the phrase that LG describes that new tech in their marketing material in the OP.

 

[Rightness_1]

When we can see this type of display in laptops?
Under what name(dream OLED)?
What are the targeted formats?
Thanks

I'd guess 2 years, and MAYBE the G6 MIGHT have this next year.

I hope this brings the colour volume up and increases the colorspace up to QD-OLED levels. That would be awesome. I'd also love to see LG drop the white subpixel so they can use a standard subpixel layout.

 

[nageme]

such as AI PCs

Jeez.

 

[Endymio]

Fluorescence is a simpler process in which materials emit light immediately upon receiving electrical energy, but its luminous efficiency is only 25%. In contrast, phosphorescence briefly stores received electrical energy before emitting light.

Not quite. Both fluorescence and phosphorescence can be excited by means other than "electrical energy" : chemical, trilobitic, and electromagnetic among them. Nor does phosphorescence store "electrical energy". The defining characteristic between them is that the excited states in fluorescence decay within nanoseconds back to the ground state, whereas phosphorescence has metastable triplet states that decay much slower. In brief: it's the "lingering afterglow" that characterizes phosphorescence. Which begs the question as to the response time monitors constructed with phosphorescence are likely to have, despite their higher energy efficiency.

 

[forman313]

I was thinking the same thing. Radiative emission can last several seconds, as we all know from watches etc.

1ms seems possible, and I´m guessing they are already using phosphorescence for red and green, and have the after glow duration under control.

Source: https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshe...Spectroscopy/Fluorescence_and_Phosphorescence

 

[ZoneDymo]

k....Qdel when?

 

[Endymio]

I was thinking the same thing. Radiative emission can last several seconds, as we all know from watches etc.

1ms seems possible, and I´m guessing they are already using phosphorescence for red and green, and have the after glow duration under control.

In my materials science work, anything below 3-4ms was very rare. And remember, this has to be added to the switching time of the panel itself, so it would convert a 1 ms monitor to 4-5 ms.

I couldn't find any statistics on how much faster, if any, LG has managed here, but I did find that they have no plans yet to bring the tech to TVs and monitors. And apparently there are lifetime issues with the phosphorescent layer, which is why they're retaining a blue "long lifespan" fluorescent layer under the new phosphorescent one:

'Dream OLED' with blue PHOLED ready for mass production, says LG Display

First panels to be showcased this month

www.flatpanelshd.com

 

[forman313]

In my materials science work, anything below 3-4ms was very rare. And remember, this has to be added to the switching time of the panel itself, so it would convert a 1 ms monitor to 4-5 ms.

I couldn't find any statistics on how much faster, if any, LG has managed here, but I did find that they have no plans yet to bring the tech to TVs and monitors. And apparently there are lifetime issues with the phosphorescent layer, which is why they're retaining a blue "long lifespan" fluorescent layer under the new phosphorescent one:

'Dream OLED' with blue PHOLED ready for mass production, says LG Display

First panels to be showcased this month

www.flatpanelshd.com

Makes sense. Seems like a very expensive way of making panels. I´m not updated on the situation for OLED as general lighting, but the lifetime issues might be less problematic when power density is lower. As far as I know OLED lighting is very niche and most of the big companies abandoned it and sold off patents and factories.

Considering how simple the principle seemed when it was announced way back in the late 90´s, the progress since then has been less than impressive. But then again, it´s not like blue LED´s was invented in a day or two.