According to TheElec, LG Display is planning to develop hybrid OLED panels for automotive customers. In addition, LG Display and Samsung Display are also developing hybrid OLED panels for Apple, which will be used for the iPad in the future.
According to the report, this new hybrid OLED panel will use both glass substrate and thin-film encapsulation (TFE), which were used for rigid OLED panels and flexible OLED panels in the past. In addition, the hybrid OLED panel will use a polyimide substrate instead of glass, so it is also cheaper to manufacture.
LG Display’s first customer for the new hybrid OLED panels is likely to be European automakers, sources said. So far, the South Korean display panel maker has only supplied polyimide OLED panels to its automotive customers.
LG Display showed off its hybrid OLED panel technology, Advanced Thin OLED, during CES this year, and the glass substrate is said to be 20 percent thinner than the competition.
