Recently, Japan's Toshiba Corp and Matsushita joint venture to develop OLED displays with the world's longest product life span and lowest power consumption. The venture has developed the new panel in cooperation with Idemitsu Kosan Co, a Japanese oil refiner active in OLED materials development.
OLED panels are expected to be a promising next-generation display as they are thinner and offer brighter colours than liquid crystal displays (LCD) and plasma panels. Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology said it aims to start commercial production of the advanced OLED panels by March 2009 for cell phones and other mobile devices. It has yet to decide the size of production.
Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology, owned 60 percent by Toshiba and 40 percent by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, said it has developed a 2.2-inch OLED panel with a lifetime of 60,000 hours and power consumption of 100 mW. Sony Corp, which launched the world's first OLED TVs late last year, said in October the product had a life span of about 30,000 hours of viewing, about half that of Sony's LCD TVs.
