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Korean boffins come up with affordable OLED tech

by on16 March 2023


Solvent-resistant hole injection layer material synthesised 

Boffins at the chemistry department at Pusan National University, Korea, have come up with a process which could make OLED TV production much cheaper.

The researchers were able to synthesise a solvent-resistant hole injection layer material used in the OLED stack and “achieved a greater efficiency and lifetime.”

With the new solution, OLEDs promise “an economical, large-scale fabrication technique” and could be made more cheaply and efficiently, and at a greater scale. OLED TV prices could fall and start giving QLED TVs a run for their money. 

A major reason why OLED TVs are pricier than their QLED counterparts is that OLED TV production, which uses a process called vacuum thermal evaporation, is both expensive and labor-intensive. An alternative to current production methods is solution-processed OLEDs, but so far the use of that technique has been limited due to the difficulty in “stacking” the component layers used in OLED panels.

 

Last modified on 16 March 2023
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