LG sales and marketing VP, Won Kim said that initally OLED TVs will be more expensive than their LCD counterparts in 2012, but expects this will flip by 2016.
LG said that OLED HD TV's sized under 40 inches will use an eighth-generation size glass substrate, while smaller TVs will use a sixth-generation size glass substrate with a low-temperature polycrystal silicon.
The former will require LG to develop equipment than can work at more than 700 degrees Celsius to crystallize while it's still in a solid state. LG Display aims to use fluorescent materials until 2011 and phosphorescent materials after that point.
LG's 15-inch OLED TV which will go on sale in the USA by Xmas is expected in Australia soon.
Panel resolution is 1,366 X 768.
LG Display said it is targeting a migration path with a 50 percent higher material cost and a 30 percent lower yield than those of LCD panels in 2012 and a 20-30 percent lower material cost and an equivalent yield in 2016.
Remaining technical challenges to achieving volume production of larger screen OLED panels reportedly include optimizing: driver elements (TFTs), organic EL materials and film forming processes and sealing processes.
At the FPD International show in Japan last week LG showed OLED products ranging in size from 2.67- to 20.7-inches, including a 14.1-inch panel for notebook PCs with a privacy protection function, the company said.
