LG Ready To Produce Flexible OLED Displays for Smartphones!
LG Display Mass-Produce Worlds First Flexible OLED Panel for Smartphones
LG Display brings innovation to the smartphone market with cutting-edge panel
Seoul, Korea (Oct. 7, 2013) LG Display, the worlds leading innovator of display technologies, today announced that it will start mass-production of the worlds first flexible OLED panel for smartphones. This state-of-the-art panel represents another milestone following the companys commercial rollout of the worlds first 55-inch OLED TV display earlier this year.
LG Display is launching a new era of flexible displays for smartphones with its industry-leading tech-nology, said Dr. Sang Deog Yeo, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of LG Dis-play. The flexible display market is expected to grow quickly as this technology is expected to expand further into diverse applications including automotive displays, tablets and wearable devices. Our goal is to take an early lead in the flexible display market by introducing new products with enhanced per-formance and differentiated designs next year.
LG Displays flexible OLED panel is built on plastic substrates instead of glass. By applying film-type encapsulation technology and attaching the protection film to the back of the panel, LG Display made the panel bendable and unbreakable. The new display is vertically concave from top to bottom with a radius of 700mm, opening up a world of design innovations in the smartphone market. And only 0.44mm thin, LG Displays flexible OLED panel is the worlds slimmest among existing mobile device panels. Whats more, it is also the worlds lightest, weighing a mere 7.2g even with a 6-inch screen, the largest among current smartphone OLED displays.
In March 2012 LG Display developed the worlds first 6-inch Electronic Paper Display (EPD) based on e-ink which utilizes a plastic backplane. Having previously showcased the worlds first curved 55-inch OLED TV panel at CES 2013, todays announcement highlights the companys leading position in ad-vanced flexible display technologies.
According to research firm IHS Display Bank, the global flexible display industry will see dramatic growth and become a USD 1.5 billion market by 2016, exceeding USD 10 billion by 2019. LG Display plans to advance flexible display technologies and bring innovation to consumers daily lives with the introduction of rollable and foldable displays in various sizes.
About LG Display
LG Display Co., Ltd. [NYSE: LPL, KRX: 034220] is a leading manufacturer and supplier of thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels, OLEDs and flexible displays. The company provides TFT-LCD panels in a wide range of sizes and specifications for use in TVs, monitors, notebook PCs, mobile products and other various applications. LG Display currently operates nine fabrication facilities and seven back-end assembly facil-ities in Korea, China, Poland, and Mexico. The company has a total of 56,000 employees operating worldwide. For more news and information about LG Display, please visit www.lgdnewsroom.com.