‘Samsung Display delivers prototypes quantum dot OLED panels to Sony and Panasonic’

Samsung Display has not only supplied prototypes of quantum dot OLED panels to sister company Samsung Electronics, but also to Sony and Panasonic. That says research agency Omdia. Samsung Electronics would not yet be sure whether it is fully committed to qd-oled TVs.

Samsung Display is said to have recently delivered the quantum dot OLED panels to the aforementioned three manufacturers, Business Korea writes based on Omdia. However, that does not mean that Samsung Electronics, Panasonic and Sony will also release all three televisions based on qd-oled panels. Samsung Electronics, the most obvious buyer of the panels, is still a question mark on that point, as the company would also consider investing heavily in minile televisions for next year.

According to an analyst, Samsung Electronics has already made a decision about the televisions it plans to release in 2021. If the manufacturer starts using qd-oled panels, televisions will probably not appear until 2022 at the earliest, according to the prediction.

The research firm states that the mass production of quantum dot OLED panels can start at the earliest in the third quarter of 2021, provided one of the three companies mentioned actually starts to release QD OLED TVs.

Samsung Display previously announced that it is on track to start producing quantum dot OLED panels for TVs sometime next year. Omdia predicts that the company will have the capacity to produce 30,000 plates per month. In addition, the manufacturer would use the multi-model glassmethod, which makes it possible to cut different panel sizes from plates and thus the yields increase.

According to a prediction from Omdia, Samsung Display would focus on panels for TVs with screen diagonals of 55 “, 65”, 78 “and 82” to increase efficiency and there are also predictions that the qd-oled panels will be used for gaming monitors. For example, Samsung Display could produce two 82 “panels in combination with three 32” monitor panels from one plate using the multi-model glass method, or two 78 “panels with six 27” panels.

QD OLED TVs use blue OLEDs and quantum dots. In addition, red and green color filters are used to create sub-pixels of those colors. According to Samsung, this technology makes it possible to display better colors than the existing OLED TVs and the brightness will also be higher. Existing OLED TVs all have LG Display panels and use a different technology, based on white OLEDs with a color filter. A QD OLED panel from Samsung Display would also consist of fewer layers compared to the OLED panels from LG Display, which would reduce costs considerably.