LG’s 40-inch OLED Will Hit the Market in 2012

3rd November, 2009 by Adina
Tags: HDTV, Japan, LG, News, OLED, TV

LG has recently revealed its plans for OLED TVs at the Flat Panel Display International show in Japan and reiterated the promise to release the 15-inch OLED HDTV before the end of this year. LG’s OLE sales and marketing vice-president, Won Kim, also promised 20-inch and larger OLED panels in 2010, 30-inch and even larger models in 2011 and the peak of 40-inch OLED devices by 2012. These displays will be more expensive than their LCD correspondents in 2012, but the situation could be changed by 2016. The 15-inch OLED TV has been added a few minor details and will sport a 1,366×768 native resolution with a brightness of 450cd/m2 at its peak. Hoping that promises will be kept, we should expect it to hit the market by the end of this year, but no information regarding the price or the exact date of the release was provided.

OLED TVs sized under 40 inches require to use an eighth-generation size glass substrate, while the smaller TVs only require a sixth-generation size glass substrate with low-temperature polycrystalline silicon. The technology of obtaining the eighth-generation size glass substrate require the company to develop equipment able to work at a temperature higher than 700 degrees Celsius in order to allow crystallization while still in a solid state. The use of fluorescent materials is foreseen until 2011. Phosphorescent materials will be used afterwards by LG Display.

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