SEOUL, May 13 (AJP) - Samsung Display is showcasing a suite of advanced display technologies that reflect the company's growing ambitions in next-generation screen innovation at the annual Display Week 2025 exhibition.
The event, which continues from Tuesday through Thursday, features several never-before-seen prototypes and refinements to existing display technologies. Display Week, organized by the Society for Information Display, remains a key showcase for cutting-edge visual technologies, drawing researchers, engineers and tech giants from around the world.
Among the highlights is a significantly upgraded version of Samsung’s Electroluminescence Quantum Dot (EL-QD) display. The newest iteration reaches a peak brightness of 400 nits — a 50 percent increase from the 250-nit model introduced at last year’s show.
Unlike current QD-OLED displays, which use photoluminescence — where light from an OLED source is filtered through quantum dots — the EL-QD emits light directly from red, green and blue quantum dots using electrical signals, eliminating the need for an OLED layer entirely.
Samsung Display is also exhibiting its "Sensor OLED Display," which integrates organic photodiodes directly into the OLED panel. This allows for fingerprint recognition across the entire screen, rather than being confined to a designated area.
The display can also measure biometric data such as heart rate, blood pressure, stress levels and even detect atrial fibrillation. The technology, featured earlier this year in the journal Nature Communications, is being demonstrated through an interactive “digital dalgona game” that responds to laser light rather than touch.
The company is also debuting its highest-resolution OLEDoS (OLED on Silicon) panel to date — a 5,000 pixels-per-inch RGB display with a brightness of up to 15,000 nits.
Despite its compact 1.4-inch size, similar to a smartwatch screen, the display boasts a refresh rate of 120Hz and covers up to 99 percent of the DCI-P3 color gamut, delivering greater pixel density than even 8K televisions.
Samsung is also presenting a 4,200 PPI version with an even more dazzling peak brightness of 20,000 nits, an increase from previous iterations unveiled at SID 2024 and CES 2025.
Visitors to Samsung’s booth can explore a range of forward-looking form factors. These include a microLED-based stretchable display, first unveiled last year, now shown creating a 3D topographic map with simultaneous protrusions.
Concept devices include the “Flexible Briefcase,” an 18.1-inch foldable OLED panel that transforms into a bag-like form with a handle, and the “Polygon Foldable,” which features a trapezoid-shaped 3.38-inch OLED on the exterior of a flip-style phone.
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