Technology development and production of flat panel displays in Korea

Jin Jang, Sungkyoo Lim, Myunghwan Oh

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Abstract

The Korean display industry, led by the Samsung and LG Group, has been investing more than 3 billion U.S. dollars in the development and production of large bright high-definition liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) and plasma display panels (PDPs) using new fifth-generation substrate glass. Recent developments have been significant and wide-ranging, with brighter and longer life characteristics as well as improving the manufacturing process for lowered production cost. Samsung Electronics has developed the world's largest 40-in ultra-extended graphics adapter (UXGA) thin-film transistor (TFT) LCD panel for high-definition televisions and engineering workstations, while LG Electronics manufactured a brighter high-definitional 65-in wide UXGA PDPs competing with projection televisions for home theater. Since the first-stage National Research Project for developing TFT LCDs and PDPs was terminated in September 2001, the second-stage Advanced New Research Program for developing more wearable and reliable organic light-emitting diodes than conventional types are proposed by a group of research scientists and engineers working for novel display materials in academia and government-funded research institutes as well as display industries in 2002.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)501-513
Number of pages13
JournalProceedings of the IEEE
Volume90
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2002

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Some distinguished scientists are with the selected National Research Laboratory, which has been supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology for the last five years, and also the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Energy for their platform establishment on research facilities and materials. They are proposing many new ideas for core technologies applicable not only to enhance the device characteristics such as brightness and lifetime, but also to lower the production cost with improved structural design for display devices, e.g., with reduced numbers of mask for simplifying the lithography process as well.

Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

Keywords

  • Flat-panel display
  • Korean display industry
  • LCD
  • OLED
  • PDP

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