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There are more and more reports that both LG and Samsung are planning to show 55" OLED TV products at CES 2012 (January 10th). In fact, some reports suggest that the two companies want to introduce the products before the 2012 Olympics games which takes place in August.

While Samsung's plans aren't official yet, LG did say (during their Q3 financial result conference) that they are still planning to release 55" OLED TVs in the middle of 2012. LG also unveiled that these OLED panels will be Oxide-TFT based. LG is aiming towards 80%-90% yield in the pilot line (the yield will be announced in 2Q 2012).

This was a busy month here at OLED-Info, as we published three hands-on review with OLED lamps and panels. First up was Blackbody's V-LUX lamp - an OLED desk lamp that has two large rectangular OLED panels. The lamp costs €572 and is actually one of the cheapest OLED lamps on the market. Our second review was of Lumiotec's Hanger and Vanity lamps - both of which use a single 14.5x14.5 cm OLED panel.

Finally, we posted a review of two Philips Lumiblade panels, a tall rectangle and a circle (dot). In this review we compare OLED panels from Philips, Lumiotec, OSRAM and Blackbody.

Several research companies released their forecasts for the OLED market. Korea's DisplayBank says that the AMOLED market will grow from around $1.4 billion in 2010 to $12.8 billion in 2015 - and it will be led by small and medium displays. iSupply is talking about units - and forecasts a 110% jump in 2012 to 154.7 million units (up from 73.7m in 2011 and 47.4m in 2010). The fast growth will continue in the next years, and the market will reach 297.3 million units in 2015 (a 10% of the total market).

Nanomarkets released a new OLED lighting report, in which they say that the OLED lighting market will take off in 2014 - and will reach $1 billion in sales in 2015.

DuPont announced that it has signed an OLED production technology licensing agreement with a leading Asian AMOLED maker. Dupont's technology will be used to make large size OLED TV panels. A leading OLED maker probably means either Samsung (most likely), LG or Sony.

DuPont's nozzle-printing (or "spray-printing") technology uses a continuous stream of ink (unlike the droplets used in regular inkjet printing) to deposit OLED materials. This is a very fast process - DuPont says it can print a 50" TV in under 2 minutes, but the display isn't optimized in the sub-pixel level and is so less efficient than in other patterning technologies. But the faster throughput can lead to cheaper displays - in fact DuPont claims that this technology may make an OLED TV cheaper than an LCD TV.

Universal Display reported their first profitable quarter - earning $6 million in Q3 2011 on revenues of $21.8 (an increase of 208% compared to 3Q 2010). Read here for more information from UDC - regarding their host material business, Dupont's nozzle technology and blue PHOLEDs.

There was a ruling in Europe regarding one of UDC's basic phosphorescent patents. According to some reports, UDC's main claim was invalidated and UDC will have to submit a much narrower patent. UDC however says that they are "extremely pleased" with the results of the ruling. The company will have to remove any Osmium reference in the patent, but Iridium (the only commercialized phosphorescent material) still holds.