Samsung and LGD Participate in 'IMID 2024'... Both Win 'Display of the Year' Award

Held at Jeju International Convention Center from 21st to 23rd

Samsung D wins award for 31.5-inch monitor QD-OLED
First unveiling of MicroLED-applied 'Stretchable Display'

LGD wins award for TVs and gaming OLED panels with 'Meta Technology 2.0' applied

Samsung Display and LG Display will participate in the '24th International Meeting on Information Display (IMID)' held at the Jeju International Convention Center (ICC JEJU) from the 21st to the 23rd.

IMID is a global display academic conference held annually in Korea, attended by more than 2,000 scholars and industry professionals in the display field. Samsung Display and LG Display both received the newly established 'Display of the Year Award' at this year’s IMID.

A Samsung Display employee examining a stretchable display that transforms from a flat surface into a three-dimensional shape of Jeju Island.
[Photo by Samsung Display]

Samsung Display received the Display of the Year Award for its 31.5-inch UHD resolution monitor Quantum Dot (QD)-OLED product. This product, which began mass production in earnest at the end of last year, currently achieves the highest pixel density of 140 PPI (Pixels per Inch) among self-emissive monitors on the market.

A Samsung Display representative explained, "The 31.5-inch QD-OLED product is currently collaborating with more than 10 global monitor brands," adding, "It is highly rated not only by gamers who want high immersion and realism but also by content creators who require high-quality work."

Additionally, the company will showcase for the first time a high-resolution 'stretchable display' applying MicroLED technology. The stretchable display is a next-generation display that can be freely deformed by stretching or bending like rubber and then return to its original shape. Samsung Display previously attracted industry attention by unveiling the world’s first stretchable organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display in 2017.

The product unveiled this time features the highest resolution and elongation rate (stretch ratio) among products announced in the industry, with the display size stretching elastically up to 1.25 times (25% elongation rate) and boasting a 120 PPI resolution comparable to gaming monitors. In particular, this exhibition emphasizes the stretchable display’s feature of protruding a flat screen into three dimensions to be used like buttons or applied to irregular surfaces such as clothing, furniture, and buildings, expressing the Jeju Island terrain and four seasons in 3D.

Moreover, Samsung Display will introduce next-generation technologies and products such as QD-LED, which uses QD to form RGB pixels, and OLEDoS (Organic Light Emitting Diode on Silicon), a white method (W-OLED) that achieves an industry-first ultra-high brightness of 12,000 nits (1 nit equals the brightness of one candle).

Regarding next-generation technologies such as MicroLED and artificial intelligence (AI), Samsung Display will present the largest number of papers among participating companies, with over 70 papers. Notably, the research titled 'Study on Material Durability of Tile-type MicroLED Displays' by Pro Choi Nak-cho and his team from the Small and Medium-sized Business Division received the Universal Display Corporation (UDC) Advanced Technology Award. The UDC Advanced Technology Award, newly established at IMID, is given to researchers or teams whose papers presented at the conference have had the greatest impact on the organic electronics and display industry.

On the 21st, visitors at the 'IMID 2024' held at Jeju International Convention Center are viewing the OLED TV panel and gaming OLED panel equipped with Meta Technology 2.0, which won the 'Display of the Year Award'.
[Photo by LG Display]

LG Display received the 'Display of the Year Award' for its TV and gaming OLED panels applied with 'Meta Technology 2.0.'

'Meta Technology 2.0' is a technology that surpasses the limits of OLED image quality by combining 42.4 billion ultra-fine lens patterns 'MLA+' with the luminance optimization algorithm 'Meta Multi Booster' and the image enhancement algorithm 'Detail Enhancer.' It improves luminance, one of the core elements of image quality, by about 42% compared to previous levels, achieving the brightest maximum luminance of 3,000 nits among existing OLED TV panels, vividly and three-dimensionally expressing rich, natural colors and brightness as seen by the human eye.

In addition, LG Display will exhibit vehicle displays optimized for software-defined vehicles (SDV), ultra-high brightness OLEDoS for virtual reality (VR) and smartwatches, among others.

LG Display will also present about 30 latest research papers on OLED performance enhancement and manufacturing innovation through AI and machine learning. In particular, it will announce numerous research achievements that improve OLED panel performance through the development of high-efficiency OLED devices and the enhancement of thin-film transistor (TFT) backplane stability. Research results showing that OLED TV panels emit less harmful blue light compared to LCDs, minimizing the impact on melatonin secretion?a sleep hormone?and thus supporting healthy sleep activities, will also be disclosed.