Samsung Display to present new OLED for smartphones with 16% reduction in power consumption

▲ Samsung Display employees are evaluating the performance of new organic materials. ⒸSamsung Display

Samsung Display is introducing a new OLED for low-power smartphones.

On the 26th, Samsung Display announced that it has successfully commercialized OLED new organic materials that have significantly improved luminous efficiency compared to the previous work, and developed an OLED for smartphones that can reduce power consumption by more than 16%. This panel was first applied to the Galaxy S21 Ultra, which was recently unveiled by Samsung Electronics.

OLEDs express colors through organic light-emitting materials that emit light by themselves when current flows without a separate light source. Therefore, organic material efficiency greatly affects the display’s power consumption, wide color gamut, high brightness, HDR, and outdoor visibility.

The organic material newly developed by Samsung Display significantly increased the luminous efficiency by improving the speed of electrons moving faster and easier in the organic material layer. This means that it can emit brighter light with less energy, which can help improve the usage time of smartphones in the 5G era where video viewing is increasing.

The display is a key component that greatly affects the power consumption of a smartphone, and it can be expected to increase the smartphone usage time by reducing the power consumption of the display.

Samsung Display has been concentrating its capabilities on enhancing material technology by closely cooperating with global material companies for the past 10 years to secure super-divided competitiveness in the field of organic materials technology, and expanding relevant experts.

In particular, it has applied for more than 370 OLED organic material-related patents every year in Korea, the United States, China, Japan, and Europe over the past three years, and holds 5,000 related patents on a cumulative basis last year.