Samsung is working on a fast and cheap generation of LCDs

Samsung is developing a new line of LCDs that are cheaper to produce than current displays. In addition, the new displays are controlled faster than the current ones.

Samsung drives its current, more expensive displays at 120Hz, but the new LCDs will be driven at double the speed, 240Hz. As a result, the panels, which Samsung has given the name ‘blue phase’ LCDs for the time being, would be very suitable for displaying fast-moving images. Incidentally, the term ‘blue phase’ is said to originate from a blue cast that the developers observed in prototypes of the displays. The Korean company will showcase a 15″ prototype at the Society for Information Display trade show, May 18-23 in Los Angeles. to show.

In addition to a faster response time, thanks to the twice as fast control of the displays, the ‘blue phase’ line would also be cheaper to produce. Indeed, one of the steps in the production of LCD panels, the rectification of the liquid crystals, can be omitted since blue phase screens can contain their own array layers. An additional advantage of the alternative production method is that the screens are less sensitive to permanent differences in brightness caused by too much pressure on the screen. Samsung hopes to mass-produce the new panels in 2011.