Samsung Display Debuts Wide View Foldable and 20‑Inch Stretchable OLEDs
Redesigned organic emitters aim to raise crease brightness to improve viewing angles.
Overview
- Samsung Display unveiled a 7.6-inch Wide View foldable OLED at IMID in Busan on Wednesday that changes the organic light-emitting layer to cut the common brightness drop at the screen crease.
- The company also showed a 20-inch Wide Stretchable panel created by tiling two stretchable OLEDs to make what it calls the world’s largest stretchable display for curved surfaces.
- Samsung demonstrated a range of other prototypes at the show including high-refresh 16-inch laptop OLEDs, 31.5-inch 4K QD-OLED 360Hz monitors, automotive cockpit panels, and AI-focused displays such as a humanoid robot screen and an AI wearable pendant.
- These demonstrations are company prototypes focused on materials and stack changes to raise peak luminance and uniformity, and Samsung has not confirmed product deployments or released independent test data on longevity or real-world battery impact.
- The IMID presentations build on Samsung’s July announcement of mass supply for tandem OLED laptop panels and underline the company’s research push, supported by 57 technical papers and a Display of the Year award for its Galaxy S26 Ultra panel.