Rumor: Samsung is working on rollable QD OLED panels

Samsung Display may have started developing thinner QD OLED panels. That claims South Korean tech website The Elec based on its own sources. These panels should, among other things, make it possible to roll up QD OLED screens.

According to sources of The Elec Samsung is working on a new version of QD OLED panels, which must use fewer glass substrates than the current variants. By reducing the use of glass substrates, the panels must become thinner. If development succeeds, this new QD OLED version should also be rollable, the sources say.

The current version uses such substrates for the TFT layer and for the color conversion layer with quantum dot filters. Samsung wants to try to remove the glass substrate at the top of that color layer. Inkjet printing must be used on top of the blue OLED pixels that QD OLED panels use, before the QD color filters are placed on top of them.

With these new thinner panels, QD-oled should also become cheaper to produce. According to the sources, the current production process of QD-oled is more complicated and therefore more expensive than LG’s OLED production process. LG’s panels use white OLED pixels.

Samsung introduced its first QD OLED panels in January during CES. The company will launch televisions based on that this year. Sony also introduces TVs with QD OLED panels from Samsung. Alienware previously released a 34″ ultrawide monitor based on QD OLED.

The Samsung S95B with QD OLED panel