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JOLED Completes Construction Of Their OLED Fab In Nomi, Japan
December 01, 2019
JOLED’s Gen 5.5 has a capacity of 20,000 sheet/month and will be the first IJP fab when it opens for full production next year. The fab has been producing samples for customers, but is expected to start mass production in April 2020. The fab will concentrate on displays ranging from 10” to 32” and has shown a number of monitor display demos designed for the medical market. A limited number (500) monitor panels were shipped to Eizo Global for their Foris Nova High-end monitor, a 21.6” 4K display designed for home use, although the suggested price is $3,200. The display is the same one used in the Asus Pro Art PQ22UC monitor which sells for $3,999.
JOLED claims that ink-jet printing of polymer material can increase material efficiency from 50% to 90%+ and reduces the number of common layers from 6-8 to 2-3. Soluble material has a history of lower lifetimes and reduced color points than small molecule material that uses VTE. While the ink-jet process should be faster and less expensive than VTE, OLED inks must be cured (dried) as they are deposited, to keep them separate from the next deposited color, which slows down the production rate, so while much can be said for the ink-jet tools that have been produced, the soluble OLED materials are still being developed and are key to the expansion of the process. JOLED uses printers from Panasonic but alternatives from TEL and Kateeva are being tested by other panel makers.
JOLED was formed in 2015 with the combination of IP and production expertise from Sony (SNE), Japan Display and Panasonic and has been financed primarily by the quasi-government sponsored INCJ, the same organization that originally financed Japan Display and is now in the process of being bought out by a Chines consortium. Other investors in JOLED are Sumitomo, Chemical Denso, Toyota Tsusho, Screen Holdings and Nissha.
Samsung Electronics has been developing another use for ink-jet printing for depositing quantum dots, which it is to be using in its QD/OLED project under construction in Korea. If this project and JOLED’s fab ramp are successful, it will open up other applications for ink-jet printing, some which have a broad application path. If ink-jet printing can be effectively used to deposit other display materials, the use of ink-jet printing could expand throughout the display industry and advance the development of a number of materials and applications that don’t rely on OLED.
December 01, 2019
JOLED’s Gen 5.5 has a capacity of 20,000 sheet/month and will be the first IJP fab when it opens for full production next year. The fab has been producing samples for customers, but is expected to start mass production in April 2020. The fab will concentrate on displays ranging from 10” to 32” and has shown a number of monitor display demos designed for the medical market. A limited number (500) monitor panels were shipped to Eizo Global for their Foris Nova High-end monitor, a 21.6” 4K display designed for home use, although the suggested price is $3,200. The display is the same one used in the Asus Pro Art PQ22UC monitor which sells for $3,999.
JOLED claims that ink-jet printing of polymer material can increase material efficiency from 50% to 90%+ and reduces the number of common layers from 6-8 to 2-3. Soluble material has a history of lower lifetimes and reduced color points than small molecule material that uses VTE. While the ink-jet process should be faster and less expensive than VTE, OLED inks must be cured (dried) as they are deposited, to keep them separate from the next deposited color, which slows down the production rate, so while much can be said for the ink-jet tools that have been produced, the soluble OLED materials are still being developed and are key to the expansion of the process. JOLED uses printers from Panasonic but alternatives from TEL and Kateeva are being tested by other panel makers.
JOLED was formed in 2015 with the combination of IP and production expertise from Sony (SNE), Japan Display and Panasonic and has been financed primarily by the quasi-government sponsored INCJ, the same organization that originally financed Japan Display and is now in the process of being bought out by a Chines consortium. Other investors in JOLED are Sumitomo, Chemical Denso, Toyota Tsusho, Screen Holdings and Nissha.
Samsung Electronics has been developing another use for ink-jet printing for depositing quantum dots, which it is to be using in its QD/OLED project under construction in Korea. If this project and JOLED’s fab ramp are successful, it will open up other applications for ink-jet printing, some which have a broad application path. If ink-jet printing can be effectively used to deposit other display materials, the use of ink-jet printing could expand throughout the display industry and advance the development of a number of materials and applications that don’t rely on OLED.
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