New OLED TV technology
By Adina Moloman
Sources: Reuters, Oled-Info.com
Electronic companies dominated Mexico Manufacturing Industry during the 1990s, where Japanese and Korean multinational corporations had made northwestern Mexico their North American production base for televisions. Two decades ago, northwestern Mexico was a globally important center of television and television parts production. As we know the production base is moving as well the technology. The “next big thing” in displays and television devices is based on OLED technology (organic light emitting diode), which for instance will make Plasma and LCD televisions a technology of the past.
Some particular futures of this television screen are lifelike colors, better representation of fast action video, wider viewing angles, and much higher contrast ratios on a thin screen like a piece of paper, which also uses power more efficiently and has a lighter weight. OLEDs technology has multiple applications as digital displays in devices such as television screens, computer monitors, mobile phones, PDAs, etc.
The first Organic displays TV that Samsung and LG presented this year on the market are expensive, somewhere between 8-10,000 dollars. It is expected that only 20,000 OLED TVs will be sold in 2012, and it is forecasted a very low volume for 2013, but as soon as the technology matures those prices will fall dramatically.
As an attempt to recover from multi-billion-dollar losses, two major long rivals Japanese electronics companies, Sony and Panasonic announced last month that the two companies will jointly develop technologies for OLED TV panel’s mass production.
In order to gain market both Japanese companies together will develop printing based technology, which will enable low-cost mass production.
So far the two companies have been using different technologies to manufacture the panels, Sony with a system based around spraying materials as a high-temperature vapor, Panasonic is basing its technology on ink-jet printing. The better of their two firm technologies will be combined and established for the next year
