A complete breakthrough is coming for OLED monitors

TCL is best known for making TVs, but the company plans to rank among the best gaming monitors with its new OLED technology. At the Omdia Korea Display conference, the company highlighted “major advances in image quality, power consumption and lifespan” for OLED monitors and laptops using its new jet-printed OLED displays of ink, as reported by Flat0anelsHD.

Inkjet printed OLED, or IJP OLED, sounds a little ridiculous, but it’s a technology we’ve known about for almost a year. Current OLED production is problematic, according to OLED-Info, with deposits from organic controls used for OLED displays introducing contaminants into the panel. This reduces yield, but according to TCL, its new IJP OLED process can lead not only to higher yields, but also improvements in image quality.

“The technology also offers lower power consumption, with doubled material efficiency, a 50% reduction in light loss due to internal reflection and a 1.5x improvement in luminous flux efficiency. Lifespan has also been significantly improved, with a three times larger opening ratio and tenfold longer material life,” reads TCL’s press release. “IJP OLED offers cost competitiveness, with a 20% reduction in total cost. »

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This all seems like good news. We’ve heard about the low brightness of OLED monitors like the LG UltraGear OLED 27 and concerns about burn-in with displays like the Sony InZone M10S. It’s important to remember, however, that this technology is not yet available in a shipping product, and TCL’s optimistic estimates likely won’t fully translate into a proper OLED monitor or laptop.

However, the company already has a few prototypes. Notably, it features the 14-inch 2.8K TCL CSOT Hybrid OLED display, which you can see above. According to the company, it has a 2.8K resolution, 99% DCI-P3 coverage, and a refresh rate of 30Hz to 120Hz. There are already half a dozen laptops in which a screen like this one could fit in, like the Asus Zenbook S 14.

TCL says these are the applications it is targeting with its new IJP OLED technology. It says “mid-sized display applications” will see it first, including in monitors, laptops and other specialty products such as medical displays. Earlier this year, the company introduced a 65-inch rollable 8K TV with the same technology.