Holst Centre, an open-innovation initiative by imec (B) and TNO (NL), has released a new proprietary roll-to-roll (R2R) sintering platform for fast and low-temperature curing of printed conductive structures. This new tool is a next step in the creation of a complete tool set for R2R manufacturing. It enables Holst Centre and its industrial partners to further advance technologies for R2R manufacturing of plastic electronics, such as flexible OLEDs, organic PV and smart packaging.

While Sony has declared that they are going to stop selling OLED TVs in Japan, Samsung has announced their South Korean factory will accelerate the commercialization of OLED notebooks that will be launched this coming May and economical OLED panels.

A few days before, Samsung also announced their plans of re-injecting 866 million euros to develop a new 5.5 generation line of OLED panels. The plant in Chungcheong province (Tangjeong) will be producing 1,320 mm × 1,500 mm OLED panels.

The 3G Samsung Jet Ultra, runs the TouchWiz 2.0 UI, is powered by the same 800MHz processor as the original Jet and comes with a 3.1” WVGA (480 x 800 resolution) AMOLED touchscreen display, a 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash, 4x digital zoom.
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Organic and printed electronics offers novel solutions for the brand protection of consumer goods and industrial products. Electrically coded radio tags link back to the legitimate manufacturer to detect falsification at the point of sale.

In the december 2009 there are the first rumors about Cowon J3 Multi Media Player.

Scientists from Philips Research and the Eindhoven University of Technology (TUe) have developed a novel method for accurately measuring the active layer in organic light-emitting diode (OLED) lighting. This is an important step forward for OLED device optimization and efficiency that is determined by the position of the very narrow zone in which the light is generated. The findings were published online in Nature Photonics on Sunday 14 March.

TAMUZ announces OCM 404 W HD OLED powered quadruple rack monitor.

TAMUZ is proud to announce it’s most recent ground breaking development. The world’s first OLED powered quadruple rack monitor to display SD, HD and graphic signals.

AUO announced that the company plans to recruit 2.500 new employees in 2010. The new staff are for the core business LCD panel production, photovoltaic and their new OLED business.

The panel maker said it is headhunting for fresh college graduates, personnel with some work experience, as well as managers, from Taiwan and overseas.
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An impressive OLED installation by the lighting planners of ‘LichtKunstLicht’ is the main attraction on the OSRAM stand at the Light + Building show in Frankfurt from 11 to 16 April 2010. Design objects and luminaires use actual examples to show the range of wafer thin light sources with various colors and shapes.

LG Group announced that they will concentrate on four areas when it comes to R&D investments: solar cells, lighting, next-generation batteries, as well as integrated heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems. And because OLED Lighting is one of the most promising lighting technologies today, LG Chem will also focus on developing raw materials for OLED Lighting products.