In the past two years, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) became a very popular term within the flat panel display industry. The 2009 is considered as a "take-off year" of OLED. To explore the future development of China's display industry, "Science Times" reporters visited the technical experts within the industry.
It s still too early to predict
Academician Ouyang Zhongcan said that LCD has been improved and provides better picture quality and features, which will prolong their survival time in the market. Even some technical experts said that if LCD technology broke its own the bottleneck, the image display quality may surpass the quality of OLED. In Ouyang Zhongcan s opinion, from the cathode ray tube (CRT) to the PDP and LCD, LCD always takes the lead. Even in the face of OLED, LCD still has a lot of advantages.
OLED's China Opportunities
Zhang Deqiang, vice president of Wei Xinnuo emphasized the rapid development of OLED technology, but also recognize that in a long term, LCD and OLED will co-exist. An expert Qiu Yong said, "Our goal is to use the technology with independent intellectual property rights as its core competence, to participate in the international competition. OLED is different from the past CRT or LCD. It has a new development model."
Success or failure depends on the market
Ouyang Zhongcan put forward his own proposals on OLED development: to proceed step by step with first step on the small-size OLED market in addressing the key technical issues and then march to the larger size display. The market determines its success or failure." Ouyang Zhongcan emphasized.
(Source: Science Times)