Taiwan lags behind rivals in the development of white OLED

Plans to develop Samsung has recently announced the next generation of white OLED technology LCD backlight, Taiwan investment in this field still Luosheng its competitors. According to the Korea consulting firm DisplayBank said Samsung Electronics Company will invest 5 billion won (about $54 million) for white OLED non crystalline silicon based, is expected in 2008 Chungnam factory in TFT of the seventh generation LCD production line mass production. Due to production costs, patent issues and materials, Taiwan backlight manufacturers said the use of white OLED as backlight is still in the development phase. Currently, the Taiwan government sponsored Industry Technology Research Institute and several educational institutions in Taiwan are being developed for use as a backlight source for white OLED. In addition to white OLED technology, LED and flat fluorescent lamps are used as new technologies for LCD backlight. This technology is widely used in large-size LCD backlight also takes time, so the cold cathode fluorescent lamp is still the mainstream of the current backlight technology.

America Universal Display company announced in 2005 August when the world's first to achieve 30 lumens per watt white OLED. Earlier this month, DisplayBank, a South Korean consulting firm, said that Japan's Tohoku Pioneer had already started mass production in the white OLED plant.