China's OLED industry is expected to take shape

ICT research and management consultancy CCID Limited by Share Ltd released the "2008-2009 annual development research China OLED Industry Report" shows: Although the shipments and sales amount, LCD currently occupy the absolute market dominance, development prospects but has the advantages of low power consumption, OLED technology is still considerable. OLED has the advantages of simple structure, self luminous, ultra light, fast response, wide viewing angle, low power consumption and flexible displays and other characteristics, known as the "dream display", plus the production equipment investment is far less than TFT-LCD, the major display manufacturers, has become the third generation display technology the main force display device.

A mobile phone screen and MP3/MP4 panel is still the main OLED application market, the two main application areas are used for the AMOLED PMOLED panel, the market is still the main driving force from the larger size and higher order mobile phone application market. For future growth is more optimistic about the AMPOLED, the market is advancing with the promotion of technology and application of products and constantly grow and grow. According to CCID data show that with the promotion of MP3/MP4 mobile phone and the application demand for products, OLED display market since the beginning of 2005 the rapid growth, to 2008, Chinese OLED shipments reached 642 thousand, an increase of 60.5%, increased shipments growth on the one hand from the application of market demand increase, on the other hand from the manufacturers capacity the.

2005-2008 China OLED industry shipment volume and growth rate

Industrial Development: the development of China's OLED industry takes shape

At present, OLED panel manufacturers are mainly concentrated in Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, the three regions. With Samsung SDI launched the world's first active organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) panels, and Sony launched 11 inch AMOLED TV, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and other China manufacturers in the OLED market competition strength more and more strong, but also in terms of AMOLED has a better competitive position. In addition, including LG Display, odd crystal, T.MD and Samsung electronics manufacturers have also accelerated the pace of AMOLED technology development.

OLED industry has been highly concerned by the Chinese government, supported by the Ministry of industry and information technology, mainland China's OLED research and development has made breakthrough progress. By October 2008, the company successfully completed the formation of the Tsinghua University weixinnuo Chinese mainland first OLED mass production line in Kunshan, the production of small size OLED display.

By the end of 2008, the mainland China mainly in Kunshan, O Nobutoshi, Sichuan etc. irisopsia weixinnuo enterprises engaged in small size OLED production. China's first AMOLED industrialization project was officially launched in November 7, 2008 in the South China Sea, Guangdong. The first phase of the project invested 500 million Hong Kong dollars, the construction of a number of AMOLED display production line, plans to produce an annual output of 2 inches full color OLED display. The two or three phase of the project will gradually increase, the construction of the fifth generation production line, production size AMOLED display screen 26 inches; the future will be the construction of the eighth generation TFT-AMOLED panel production line, AMOLED TV can produce large and medium size. The project is scheduled for commissioning in September 2009, the first production 15 inches OLED display production line put into production.

Industrial base: have certain industrial base, industrial chain to be further improved

Because the OLED technology is a capital intensive industry, information industry is also the forefront of technology, to the relevant departments of the state from the strategic height of OLED industry overall planning, centralized resources, strengthening the independent innovation, guide and encourage enterprises to join the OLED industry chain and to give financial support, the ability to form sustainable development.

But for now, although China has a certain OLED industry base, but the industry chain is not yet available. China does not have a complete set of industrialization oriented OLED production equipment manufacturers, key equipment and a full set of equipment, such as systematic technology are in the hands of Japan, South Korea and European companies. UV curable adhesive raw materials such as glass, ITO photoresist, getter and package with the different extent of similar problems. Due to the development of China's TFT technology lags behind, the preparation technology of the panel is weak, and the production management experience is not enough, so it is difficult to develop the production process of active OLED.

In addition, China's capital market is not mature enough, corporate financing channels narrow. The role of the state in basic research, industry standards, industry resource integration has yet to be strengthened, while the lack of OLED industry production, development and management personnel, these are the weaknesses of China's OLED industry.

At present, the world has a number of companies engaged in the design and production of OLED driver IC. OLED active drive panel is subject to high price, silicon materials and organic materials, such as poor matching restrictions, become the bottleneck of the development of the global OLED industry. While Chinese only imported from abroad driver IC; in the large size and color technology due to the equipment condition is relatively backward, the relative lack of funds, there is a large gap with foreign development. These problems have restricted the development of China's OLED technology to a certain extent. In the aspect of patent, patent basic small molecule OLED material and structure is mainly in the hands of the United States and Japan companies such as Kodak Idemitsu polymer PLED materials; basic patent and structure mainly in the hands of the British CDT company and DuPont company; in active driving, Japanese SANYO, Sharp, SEL, Eldis, South Korea SamSung, LG and China Taiwan ITRI have mastered certain