Samsung Display is on the move to acquire Quantum Dot (QD) exclusive technology. It is a different from the QD material covered film panel that Samsung Electronics uses. The goal is reduce the number of processing and production cost by a large margin.
Samsung Display has recently started a research development for obtaining QD technology. Until now, Samsung Electronics worked hard to preoccupy the QD TV market by internalizing material sources to complete products.
The QD TV manufacturing method that the Samsung Electronics uses is applying QD film onto the LCD panel backlight unit (BLU) and increase color reproductive capacity. Currently Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics and Chinese company is producing QD TV in the same method.
Samsung Electronics have secured the original technology from Samsung advanced institute of technology for creating QD source, and Hansol Chemical creates the original material. Yet the price for QD film is still high. Especially the price becomes more burdensome as the panel gets bigger. 30-inch QD film costs around 100 USD.
Samsung Display is developing a method, unlike the film method, of using QD material to increase color reproductive capacity during color filter process. LCD color filter is optical component in form of a thin film that realizes colors in the liquid crystal display. Samsung Display is planning to put the QD material in the color process so that they would reduce the number of processing. They will not share the QD related supply network that Samsung Electronics has set up.
One of the related official said, “Samsung Electronics have put a long effort to structuralize the supply network and therefore they do not want to share with Samsung Display which might lead to selling their information to their rival companies. It is Samsung Display’s own task to discover another QD material.”
Samsung Electronics has released ‘SUHD TV’ last February, which has QD film applied.
Staff Reporter Sung, Hyunhee | sunghh@etnews.com