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Carrie Marshall

LG says next-gen "dream OLED" panel is finally real – but it might not come to TVs first

Film scene from Aliens shown on the LG G4 OLED TV. A floor lamp emitting blue light is to the right of the TV. .

One of the most exciting technologies in TV land is blue phosphor OLED technology, or blue PHOLED for short. As we reported earlier this month, PHOLED is more efficient and provides much more brightness without also requiring more power. It's used in the red and green pixels on OLED TV, but blue had eluded us until recently. Even now, though, it's proving tricky to manufacture, and that means the next big thing in TV tech has taken a bit longer than expected to become a commercial reality. 

That means the latest news from LG Display is exciting: the firm says it's created a new OLED panel based on the blue "dream OLED material," as described by LG (via translation). As reported by ETNews, LG Display has "successfully developed an OLED panel based on blue phosphorescence." The panel is apparently a two-stack tandem OLED and will have similar longevity to existing OLEDs.

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