At present, South Korea's Samsung and LG have advantages in the OLED panel market. The two companies adopt the "evaporative" technology to manufacture the panel, and under vacuum, the red, green and blue luminescent materials are vaporized and attached to the substrate Japan JOLED OLED panel today, the development of "printing" is the liquid light-emitting materials like a printer, the same precision applied to the substrate on the benefits of this system is no need to vacuum device, so that lower production costs , While the size of the substrate is also not limited, to help OLED panels of high precision, low cost, and large-scale. JOLED present to major Japanese fund-raising activities, hoping to raise 100 billion yen in 2019 Can mass production.
At present JOLED's trial production line is in operation, taking the lead in producing a 21.6-inch OLED screen panel that has been contracted by Sony to introduce monitors for medical devices.
JOLED is a combination of Sony and Panasonic's OLED development department, co-funded by JDI and Japan's "Industrial Innovation Agency" INCJ, was formally established on January 15, 2015. Currently INCJ owns 75% of the company's shares, while JDI, Sony and Panasonic each hold 15%, 5% and 5% of the shares, and JDI plans to raise its stake to 51% in June 2018.
Source: Japan Sankei Shimbun