Last month, Samsung announced that it will be shutting down its in-house LCD display manufacturing by the end of June 2022 due to tough competition from its Chinese and Taiwanese competitors. The brand has announced that it would rather focus its resources on manufacturing organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and quantum dot (QD) displays.
Now, a new report from TheElec has revealed that the brand is on its way to introduce introducing a new flexible OLED lamination method for its foldable smartphones which will lead to a completely bezel-less display.
The new method uses a liquid transparent adhesive (OCR) which sprays fine ink droplets using a jet spray for lamination. This provides for a smooth and accurate lamination as the ink jet is also able to reach places like the tricky areas around the punch-hole for the selfie cameras and speakers which the earlier technology-based on transparent tape (OCA) was not able to achieve.
Additionally, the OCR method is going to reduce the cost of production as it is ten times cheaper than the OCA method. Samsung Display and Estiai have reportedly solved the biggest challenge in OCR applications, the dripping of materials along curved surfaces. Thus, OCR will lead to a true zero-bezel with reduced panel thickness.
The company is looking forward to investing in a modular production line set up in a Vietnamese factory. Samsung has not yet confirmed which OCR material for foldable OLED was supplied but soon the new foldable phones will undergo a trial run.
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