New Panel Consumes 16% Less Power
Samsung Display announced on Jan. 26 that it has developed an organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel that can reduce power consumption by more than 16 percent. The product is based on new organic materials with enhanced luminous efficiency. It was first applied to the Galaxy S21 Ultra model, which was recently unveiled by Samsung Electronics.
Now that an OLED panel uses organic light-emitting materials that glow on their own without a separate light source when a current flows, the efficiency of organic materials has a big impact on a display’s power consumption, high luminance, and outdoor visibility.
Samsung Display's newly developed organic materials can emit brighter light with less energy than before. This will help 5G smartphone users who spend more time on video watching. A drop in electricity consumption can help smartphone batteries last longer.
Samsung Display applied for more than 370 patents on organic materials for OLED panels in South Korea, the United States, China, Japan, and Europe every year over the past three years. The Korean tech giant had about 5,000 patents on OLED panels as of 2020.
In 2020, Samsung Display developed adaptive frequency technology that can reduce power for smartphone screens by up to 22 percent by automatically adjusting the number of frames displayed per second depending on the content or user’s environment. It applied the technology to the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra for the first time.