OLED Display Shipments Up But Revenues Down

OLED shipments for Q2 2006 grew to 16 million and revenues hit $112 million. This is a 15 percent increase in shipments but a 14 percent decrease in overall revenues, DisplaySearch results show.

LG took the number one spot in terms of units and revenue in Q2 2006 with 3.6 million displays and $27.5 million in revenue. Samsung SDI came in at number two in both shipments and revenue ($22.4 million), Pioneer moved up to number three with $17 million in revenue. Univision was number four in revenue and RiTdisplay fell to number five.

eMagin, U.S. Army Team Up to Develop New Methods for Assessing OLED Lifetimes

Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) microdisplay manufacturer eMagin Corp. announced rfecently that it would begin work with the U.S. Army to develop better ways of assessing the applicability of active-matrix (AM) OLED displays in military systems based on the length of their usable lifetimes. eMagin will work specifically with the Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD) of the Armys Research, Development and Engineering Commands (RDECOMs) Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CRDEC), according to a company release.

According to eMagin, current methodologies for measuring the lifetime of non-emissive displays such as liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) do not apply to OLEDs. OLED-based devices depend on the specific application and can be much longer than most conventional models can predict, the company said. In addition, device color, video content, and temperature and luminance ranges all affect usable lifetime.

This report originally appeared on the website of the Society of Information Display.

NVESD and eMagin co-developed an initial usable lifetime model for a joint paper presented at SPIE Defense and Security Conference in March 2005. This project will extend that work, eMagin said.