List of flat panel display manufacturers

Flat-panel displays are thin panels of glass or plastic used for electronically displaying text, images, or video. Liquid crystal displays (LCD), OLED (organic light emitting diode) and microLED displays are different kinds of flat panel displays. This is a list of display manufacturers that own and operate cleanroom facilities and specialized equipment for making flat panel displays, including LCD, OLED and microLED displays.

LCD uses a liquid crystal that reacts to an electric current blocking light or allowing it to pass through the panel, whereas OLED/microLED displays consist of electroluminescent organic/inorganic materials that generate light when a current is passed through the material.

LCD, OLED and microLED displays are driven using LTPS, IGZO, LTPO, and A-Si TFT transistor technologies as their backplane using ITO to supply current to the transistors and in turn to the liquid crystal or electroluminescent material. Segment and passive OLED and LC displays (LCDs) do not use a backplane but use indium tin oxide (ITO), a transparent conductive material, to pass current to the electroluminescent material or liquid crystal.

LCD panel manufacturers

Liquid-crystal display (or LCD) is a thin, flat panel used for electronically displaying information such as text, images, and moving pictures. They are usually made of glass but they can also be made out of plastic. Some manufacturers make transparent LCD panels and special sequential color segment LCDs that have higher than usual refresh rates and an RGB backlight. The backlight is synchronized with the display so that the colors will show up as needed. The list of LCD manufacturers:

AUO BOE (bought Hydis) Casio (former) ChiMei (former, merged with Innolux) Chunghwa Picture Tubes Giantplus technology HannStar Display Corporation HEM Hitachi (former, merged with Japan Display alongside Sony and Toshiba) HKC InnoLux Corporation Japan Display Kyocera LG Display LXD Incorporated Mitsubishi Electric NEC Display Solutions (former, now Tianma) Panasonic Corporation (former) Pioneer Planar Systems (former) Samsung Display (former, formerly / S-LCD, a then-joint venture between Samsung Electronics and Sony which Samsung Electronics subsequently bought out Sony's share) Sharp Corporation Sony (former, merged into Japan Display) TCL (as CSOT) Tianma Toshiba (former, merged into Japan Display) Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology (Dissolved in 2009, bought by Toshiba)

OLED panel manufacturers

Organic light emitting diode (or OLED displays) is a thin, flat panel made of glass or plastic used for electronically displaying information such as text, images, and moving pictures. OLED panels can also take the shape of a light panel, where red, green and blue light emitting materials are stacked to create a white light panel. OLED displays can also be made transparent and/or flexible and these transparent panels are available on the market and are widely used in smartphones with under-display optical fingerprint sensors. LCD and OLED displays are available in different shapes, the most prominent of which is a circular display, which is used in smartwatches. The list of OLED display manufacturers:

AUO BOE China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) Chunghwa Picture Tubes eMagineMagin Receives $2.4 M Contract for OLED Microdisplay Development - https://www.ledinside.com/news/2012/8/emagin_oled_microdisplay_20120808eMagin Stockholders Approve Acquisition by Samsung Display - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/emagin-stockholders-approve-acquisition-samsung-144500711.html EverDisplay Optronics Futaba Corporation (former TDK) InnoLux Corporation LG Display JOLED Kyocera LXD Incorporated OLEDworksOLEDWORKS LLC - U.S. Small Business Administration - https://www.sbir.gov/portfolio/665675 Pioneer Corporation Planar Systems Ritek (RiT Display) Samsung Display Sony Sharp Corporation Tianma Visionox

MicroLED panel manufacturers

MicroLED displays is an emerging flat-panel display technology consisting of arrays of microscopic LEDs forming the individual pixel elements. Like OLED, microLED offers infinite contrast ratio, but unlike OLED, microLED is immune to screen burn-in, and consumes less power while having higher light output, as it uses LEDs instead of organic electroluminescent materials, The list of MicroLED display manufacturers:

AUO Samsung Sony BOE Technology /Leyard-Epistar Joint venture Sony produces and sells commercial MicroLED displays called CLEDIS (Crystal-LED Integrated Displays, also called Canvas-LED) in small quantities. Samsung sells a luxury and commercial product called "The Wall", which consists of several microLED display modules tiled together, like in most video walls.

Below are some manufacturers that make MicroLED light panels:

Ostendo Technologies, Inc. Luumii Plessey Semiconductors Ltd

LCD panel fabrication plants

This list lists current LCD fabrication facilities, former facilities are below this first table. LCDs are made in a glass substrate. For OLED, the substrate can also be plastic. The size of the substrates are specified in generations, with each generation using a larger substrate. For example, a 4th generation substrate is larger in size than a 3rd generation substrate. A larger substrate allows for more panels to be cut from a single substrate, or for larger panels to be made, akin to increasing wafer sizes in the semiconductor industry. Panel Inputs per month is how many substrates can a plant process per month.

Open Company Plant name Plant location Plant cost (in US$ billions) Started production Substrate panel size (in generations) Process technology (TFT, IPS, LTPS, IGZO, etc.) Panel inputs per monthSharpTaki MieJapan1995SharpKameyamaJapan2004gen 6, gen 8AUOLongtanTaiwan2001, 2003, 2004gen 4, gen 5AUOLongkeTaiwan2005gen 6AUOGuishanTaiwan2001, 2003gen 3.5, gen 5Japan Display, JOLED, former PanasonicMobaraJapan, Mobara2006TFT Japan DisplayKaoshiungTaiwanIPSJapan DisplayTottoriJapanIPSJapan DisplayHigashiuraJapanIPSJapan DisplayIshikawaJapan 1.5 2016 IPSBOEHefeiChina6.952018gen 10.5TFT120,000BOEHefeiChinagen 8.5TFTBOEHefeiChinagen 6TFTBOEBeijingChinagen 5TFTBOEOrdosChinagen 5.5LTPSBOEBeijingChinagen 8.5TFTBOEChengduChinagen 4.5TFTBOEFuzhouChinagen 8.5TFTBOEChongqingChinagen 8.5TFTBOEFuqinChinagen 8.5TFTTCLShenzhenChina92019(planned)gen 11TFT, IGZO90,000TCLgen 8.5TFTTCLgen 6TFTMYIR Tech LimitedShenzhen, China2019TFTLG DisplaySouth Koreagen 10.5Chunghwa Picture TubesLongtanTaiwan2002gen 4.5, gen 6gen 4.5: 180,000, gen 6: 90,000Chunghwa Picture TubesYammeTaiwangen 4.5, gen 6Giantplus TechnologyBade PlantTaiwangen 3Giantplus TechnologyHsinchu PlantTaiwangen 3.5Giantplus TechnologyKunshan Giantplus Optronics Display Technology Co., LtdChinaGiantplus TechnologyShenzhen Giantplus Optoelectronics Display Co., Ltd.ChinaHannStar Display CorporationNanjing Hannstar PlantTaiwanHannStar Display CorporationNanjing Hannspree PlantTaiwanHKCChina1.72017gen 8.6a-Si70,000InnoLux CorporationTaiwanChina Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT, also known as Shenzhen Huaxing Photoelectric Technology)Chinagen 10.5China Star Optoelectronics TechnologyChina3.52010TFT140,000China Star Optoelectronics TechnologyChina3.52015a-Si TFT100,000China Star Optoelectronics Technologyg11 project, t7China6.52019gen 10.5 (gen 11)a-Si TFT90,000China Star Optoelectronics Technologyt6China7.252019gen 10.5 (gen 11)a-Si TFT90,000

Former Company Plant name Plant location Plant cost (in US$ billions) Started production Substrate panel size (in generations) Process technology (TFT, IPS, LTPS, IGZO, etc.) Panel inputs per month Ceased ProductionSamsung, former S-LCDAsanSouth Korea2005, 2007gen 7, gen 8362,000Late 2016, turned into amoled productionChunghwa Picture TubesTaoyuanTaiwan1973 (as CRT display factory), 1995 (gen 3), 1997 (gen 4)gen 3, gen 4TFTgen 3: 40,000, gen4: 72,6002015, sold to giantplus and tce photomasks, gen 3 still operated by giantplus, gen 4 line sold to giantplus, equipment sold and line demolished, remainder operated by tcePanasonicHimejiJapan, Himeji2010gen 8TFT2017, now makes Li-ion batteries

OLED fabrication plants

Only actual plants are listed, former plants should be placed on a table below this one. Company Plant name Plant location Plant cost (in US$ billions) Started production Substrate panel size (in generations) Process technology (TFT, LTPS, IGZO, LTPO, etc.) Panel inputs per monthAUOSingaporeSingapore2013gen 4.5SamsungGiheungSouth Korea, Gyeonggi-do, YonginSamsungChungcheongnamdo, CheonanSouth KoreaSamsungSamsung Display VietnamVietnamSamsungSamsung Display Tianjin (SDT)China, TianjinSamsungSamsung Display Dongguan (SDD)China, GuangdongSamsungSamsung Suzhou LCD (SSL), Module (SSM)China, Jiangsu Province, Suzhou Industry Park, Fengli StreetSamsungSouth Korea, Asan2018 (planned)SamsungA3South Korea, Asan?135,000SamsungA5South Korea, Cheonan?180,000–270,000SamsungA4South Korea, Asan?45,000 (planned, by the end of 2018)SamsungA1South Korea, Asan55,000SamsungA2South Korea, Asan180,000SamsungSouth Chungcheong siteSouth Korea, South Chungcheong12.6Japan DisplayHakusanJapan Sony Higashiura Japan, AichiLG DisplayPaju Display ClusterSouth Korea, Paju-si, Gyeonggi-do6.9200470,000LG DisplayP9LG DisplayE61.782013gen 6LG DisplayE22013gen 4.5LG DisplayP108.712018 (planned)gen 6LG DisplayE5South Korea, Gumi2013gen 67,500LG DisplayGuangzhouChina, Guangzhou4.22019gen 8.560,000OLEDWorksGermany, AachenTCLChina, Shenzhen90,000TCLChinaBOEOrdosChina, Ordosgen 5.5BOEChengduChina, Chengdu2018gen 6BOESichuanChina, SichuanBOEHefeiChina, Hefeigen 8BOEMianyangChina, Mianyanggen 6BOEChongqingChina$1.5gen 8China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT, also known as Shenzhen Huaxing Photoelectric Technology)WuhanChina$5.08gen 6LTPS AMOLED45,000China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT)ShenzhenChina$6.72021 (planned)gen 11JOLEDJapan, Nomigen 4.5Printed OLEDJOLEDJapan, Nomigen 5.5Printed OLEDEverDisplay OptronicsChina2014gen 4.520,000EverDisplay OptronicsShanghaiChina$4.12018gen 630,000TianmaChinagen 5.5TianmaWuhanChina2017gen 6TianmaXiamenChinagen 630,000VisionoxHebeiChina$4.52018gen 630,000VisionoxGuangzhouChina$6.3gen 630,000

MicroLED fabrication plants

List of flat panel display manufacturers

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