The Japanese company Sumitomo Chemical has reportedly been a organic material o r developed that should lead to a breakthrough large-format oleds. The new material could be particularly significantly cheaper.
According to Japanese business newspaper Nikkei has Sumitomo Chemical a new oled materials developed o r. By making use of the new material would be the production costs can be halved compared to the current oled materials based on small molecules, so claims to Sumitomo Chemical. Would also make mass production easier to implement.
Sumitomo Chemical would plan to use at the end of this year in Osaka and a factory for the production of the new oled-material in to focus. The factory can then in early 2012 will start with the production. The company expects that the capacity of the plant is enough for the production of oled-panels for four to five million 40″tv’s. The new oled material will be offered to tv manufacturers in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
Sumitomo Chemical is not the only player in the market for oled materials. So has a hefty task for DuPont. This company announced early this month at a technologieovereenkomst to have closed with a “leading Asian manufacturer of amoled displays” for use of its process technology. DuPont is also the oled materials supply.
In place of the more expensive opdampingsmethode, DuPont use of a process on the basis of a solution to the oled material to put on the carrier. It is not known with any tv manufacturer DuPont made an agreement.
The expectation is that the active matrix oled market in the coming years a significant revenue will increase. As expected, the Korean Displaybank that the sales of oled panels will rise from $ 1.4 billion in 2010 to $ 12.8 billion in 2015.
