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JOLED Goes Commercial w/New OLED Monitors
JOLED began selling OLED panels using ink-jet technology developed by the company and its partners on its new Gen 5.5 fab. JOLED’s OLEDIO™ line of displays range from 10” to 32”, and while JOLED has been producing a 21.6” display used in medical monitors on a trial basis since 2019, the new line will be a full production mode and will begin with three 4K models ranging from 22”, 27” and 32”. LG Electronics is already selling the 27” and 32” JOLED panels. In late 2019, JOLED built a limited number of 21.6” IJP displays on its pilot line for Japanese monitor producer Eizo, but panels are no longer available.
The LG OLED monitors that use the JOLED displays cost $2,997 and $3,996, putting them at the high end of the monitor pricing spectrum, close to what are called ‘reference monitors’ that are used in video production for their ability to accurately reproduce colors, with these monitors covering 99% of the DCI-P3 standard used by the US film industry. The displays themselves supply 540 nits (peak - typical LCD TVs are ~350 nits) but eventually will have to compete against mini-LED displays that can run up to 2,000 nits peak.
The most important part of the JOLED story is that they are the first to use ink-jet printing to deposit and pattern the OLED emitting materials. Joled uses soluble polymer material provided by Sumitomo. IJP uses less material than VTE with a FMM due to:
Figure 1: Diamond Pixels
JOLED began selling OLED panels using ink-jet technology developed by the company and its partners on its new Gen 5.5 fab. JOLED’s OLEDIO™ line of displays range from 10” to 32”, and while JOLED has been producing a 21.6” display used in medical monitors on a trial basis since 2019, the new line will be a full production mode and will begin with three 4K models ranging from 22”, 27” and 32”. LG Electronics is already selling the 27” and 32” JOLED panels. In late 2019, JOLED built a limited number of 21.6” IJP displays on its pilot line for Japanese monitor producer Eizo, but panels are no longer available.
The LG OLED monitors that use the JOLED displays cost $2,997 and $3,996, putting them at the high end of the monitor pricing spectrum, close to what are called ‘reference monitors’ that are used in video production for their ability to accurately reproduce colors, with these monitors covering 99% of the DCI-P3 standard used by the US film industry. The displays themselves supply 540 nits (peak - typical LCD TVs are ~350 nits) but eventually will have to compete against mini-LED displays that can run up to 2,000 nits peak.
The most important part of the JOLED story is that they are the first to use ink-jet printing to deposit and pattern the OLED emitting materials. Joled uses soluble polymer material provided by Sumitomo. IJP uses less material than VTE with a FMM due to:
- 5-layer stack vs. 8 or 9 layers for VTE
- 90%+ material utilization vs. 45% for non-FMM process used by LGD in their TVs.
- Red 372 SPPI
- Green 526 SPPI
- Blue 372 SPPI
Figure 1: Diamond Pixels
