LG.Display Announce the First Commercially-Viable “Dream OLED” Blue PHOLED Panels

LG Display, one of the leading manufacturers of OLED technology panels, announced this week that it has become the world’s first company to successfully verify the commercialization-level performance of blue phosphorescent OLED panels (commonly known as “blue PHOLED”) on a mass production line. The achievement comes about eight months after the company partnered with UDC (Universal Display Corp) to develop blue phosphorescence, and is considered a significant step closer to realizing a “dream OLED” display.

“Dream OLED” – fluorescence vs. phosphorescence

In the display industry, “dream OLED” refers to an OLED panel that achieves phosphorescence for all three primary colors of light (red, green, and blue). OLED panel light emission methods are broadly categorized into fluorescence and phosphorescence. Fluorescence is a simpler process in which materials emit light immediately upon receiving electrical energy, but its luminous efficiency is only 25%. In contrast, phosphorescence briefly stores received electrical energy before emitting light. Although it is technically more complex, this method offers luminous efficiency of 100% and uses a quarter as much power as fluorescence (i.e. power savings of 75%).

However, achieving blue phosphorescence has remained a major challenge even more than 20 years after the commercialization of red and green phosphorescence. This is due to blue, among the three primary colors, having the shortest wavelength and demanding the greatest energy.

Hybrid two-stack Tandem OLED structure

LG Display has solved this issue by using a hybrid two-stack Tandem OLED structure, with blue fluorescence in the lower stack and blue phosphorescence in the upper stack. By combining the stability of fluorescence with the lower power consumption of phosphorescence, it consumes about 15% less power while maintaining a similar level of stability to existing OLED panels.

In particular, LG Display is the first to succeed in reaching the commercialization stage of blue phosphorescent OLED panels, where performance evaluation, optical characteristics, and processability on actual mass production lines should all be confirmed. The company has already completed commercialization verification with UDC. LG Display has independently filed patents for its hybrid blue phosphorescent OLED technology in both South Korea and the United States.

Showcasing at SID Display Week 2025

The company will showcase a blue phosphorescent OLED panel featuring two-stack Tandem technology at SID Display Week 2025, the world’s largest display event, in San Jose, California from May 11th (local time).

At the show, LG Display will be unveiling a blue phosphorescent OLED panel featuring two-stack Tandem technology applied to a small and medium-sized panel that can be applied to IT devices such as smartphones and tablets. As more and more products require high definition and high efficiency such as AI PCs and AR/VR devices, the application of blue phosphorescence technology is expected to expand rapidly. That could mean monitor and TV panels in the future although nothing has been confirmed at this stage.

“The successful commercialization of blue phosphorescence technology, which has been called the final piece of the ‘dream OLED’ puzzle, will become an innovative milestone towards the next generation of OLED,” said Soo-young Yoon, CTO and Executive Vice President of LG Display. “We expect to secure a leading position in the future display market through blue phosphorescence technology.”

LG Display supplies OLED panels to major consumer electronics brands including Apple, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sony, Panasonic, Philips and others. The production and commercialization of blue PHOLED is great news for the market as it will offer OLED displays with improved picture quality and energy efficiency in the future, though likely at a higher cost initially.

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