- LG is testing a new OLED -Production Method for its TV -Panels
- Potentially brighter, more effective OLED TVs with less risk of burning
- Probably appear in niches sectors such as I-car screens first
Some time ago we reported a new kind of TV-Tech called Eleap that could solve the long-term problems with the best OLED TVs and three years since it was announced, it seems that LG could end up putting it into production.
It is known as Eleap and it is an alternative way to manufacture OLED panels. When it was announced in 2022, its focus was on small telephone screens. But LG -Display looks at the technology of significantly larger screens, and that means it could be – oh yes – a huge eleap to TV technology.
Why eleap could transform TVs
Conventional OLED panels are made with fine metal masks, which are thin metal sheets with lots of small holes in them. These masks ensure that organic matter is deposited on the display substrate with pixel-perfection precision to ensure that each pixel lights uniformly without overlapping or being poorly adapted.
Eleap makes things different. Instead of fine metal masks, it uses a lithograph process to create OLED pixels. And according to the ELEC trading site, the LG display already has the appropriate equipment to try Eleap in its OLED facility in Paju, South Korea and it seems to test on TV-size panels. Samsung -Display also reportedly tests the technology.
This is a test, not the beginning of production: LG -Display and Samsung display can still decide not to move on with the technology. But it has the potential to transform OLED making: The promise of Eleap is that it will offer far better efficiency for OLED pixels because the light-emitting area has more than doubled compared to a pixel of the same size made using the fine metal mask technique.
This means that they are much more energy efficient, so you can have higher brightness without increasing power consumption – or using less power at the same brightness. This energy efficiency also means less heat production and heat is an important cause of OLED burning, so there would be a slight danger to the higher brightness that causes an burn-in problem.
There is also the potential for Eleap to produce more effective, which would mean cheaper OLED panels, which can mean cheaper TVs or at least maybe mid-range oleds like the LG C5 could finally become significantly brighter without becoming as expensive as the flagship LG G5.
Even if the trials are successful, it will probably be some time before we see the technology of our TVs: According to ELEC, the short-term use of the “niche OLED panels, such as the 20-inch to 30-inch in size or those used in vehicles.” The fact that LG tests it at all in panels with TV size is good news for its potential use in the future of better home entertainment.
