Samsung SDI develops the world’s thinnest AMOLED

Long Beach, CA, May 22nd – the world ‘s leading display maker Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. announced Tuesday in SID 2007 that it had developed the world’s thinnest 2.2-inch Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diodes (AMOLED) display which is only 0.52mm thick.
The newly introduced 2.2inch QVGA(320 by 240) AMOLED can realize high-speed full-color(262K) video images, project images on brightness ratio ranging from 10,000 to 1 and has 100 percent color gamut.
Samsung SDI said its 0.52mm thinnest 2.2-inch AMOLED prototype is based on the conventional glass substrate, and the display uses low-temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) technology. It approaches the dimensions of a 1.7mm TFT-LCD considered to be the slimmest among the existing LCD modules available for mass production.
A 1.2-mm spare in thickness for a cell phone means that there are infinite ways to use the electric device by adding built-in functions such as Digital Multimedia Broadcast (DMB) and increase the battery capacity.
AMOLED is regarded as a promising display technology in that its response time is 1,000 times faster than of the existing TFT-LCD and its weight and thickness is 40% less compared with the existing displays.
Samsung SDI is completely ready now to mass produce the new AMOLEDs.
Samsung SDI expects to produce about 1.5million AMOLED modules per month for a wide range of handset displays.
The market research firm DisplaySearch predicts that the AMOLED market will grow dramatically to $2.8 billion in 2009 from $220 million in 2007. Samsung SDI also expects that the worldwide main panel AMOLED market will grow up to between 5 and 8 million units in 2007.

About Samsung SDI

Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. is a leading company in the display and energy businesses. It employs 28,000 people in 14 global offices and 2 R&D centers in 7 countries.

Samsung SDI is committed to go beyond simple product manufacture to identify customer needs before they realize them, creating products based on high-technologies and shaping the future of display and energy industries. It summarizes this in its business vision, which is ‘ Creating the future of display and energy’.
The company produces display products including PDPs (Plasma Display Panel), OLEDs (PM&AM Organic Light-Emitting Diodes), LCDs (Liquid Crystal Display) for mobile phone, slim CRTs (Ultra Big Slim), and VFDs (Vacuum Fluorescent Displays).

The company also makes rechargeable batteries such as lithium-ion batteries and lithium polymer batteries for mobile applications.

Furthermore, Samsung SDI has been strengthening the R&D of the future displays and energy such as 3D displays, flexible displays, fuel cells and solar cells.

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I.C Hwang

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SAMSUNG SDI

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