Samsung Display Develops OLED Material Evaluation Platform to Support Partners

Joint Development with Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)
Supporting Partner Growth and Win-Win Cooperation through Standardization of Material Property Evaluation

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Hye-young] Samsung Display has established a material property evaluation simulation platform to strengthen the organic material ecosystem, which is key to improving the performance of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels, and to support the growth of partner companies.

On the 6th, Samsung Display jointly developed and unveiled the simulation platform "Sync-OLED" with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) Supercomputing Application Center, which pre-evaluates the properties of OLED materials.

Sync-OLED is a platform that can simulate complex properties closely related to OLED performance, such as charge mobility, in addition to the unique characteristics of OLEDs.

This platform can be used not only by Samsung Display’s existing partners but also by material companies and research institutions upon consent to use.

Generally, partner companies incur costs of hundreds of millions of won to purchase software and hire specialized personnel to simulate material properties independently. Building a supercomputing server capable of running professional software also requires an initial investment of several billion won.

To support the simulation infrastructure of these partner companies, Samsung Display has been working with the KISTI Supercomputing Application Center since 2020 to develop an organic material simulation tool and to build the platform server at the Supercomputing Application Center over two years.

Kim Tae-hyung, Executive Director of the Electronic Materials Division at Solus Advanced Materials, a domestic organic material specialist company, said, "As Solus Advanced Materials has taken a long-term interest in predicting material performance, this system establishment attempt will be a good model of win-win cooperation," adding, "We will contribute to the development of the OLED industry through the development of high-efficiency organic materials using Samsung Display’s simulation platform."

Lee Chang-hee, Vice President and Head of Samsung Display’s Research Institute, said, "As the OLED market rapidly expands centered on mobile devices, the organic material market is also facing a great growth opportunity," and added, "The standardized material property evaluation platform established by Samsung Display is expected to help capable startups enter the market and support the qualitative and quantitative growth of material companies’ research, thereby contributing to win-win cooperation with partners."

Meanwhile, to secure a super-gap competitiveness in the field of organic device technology, Samsung Display has focused its capabilities on enhancing material technology by expanding cooperation with industry-academia-research related specialized institutions through domestic and international material-related industry-academia projects and joint R&D over the past decade.

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