Flexible OLED:

The supply of flexible OLED (organic light-emitting diode) displays is going to remain limited for the next few years.

The reason behind the shortage is that manufacturing companies are still unprepared for the large-scale production of OLED displays.

The report says that the big display manufacturing firms such as LG Display, Samsung Display, Tianma and BOE are expected to expand their OLED and plastic OLED manufacturing business and spend approximately 600 billion yuan (around $90 billion) over next three years.

The Investor, predicts an investment of 200 billion Yuan (around $30 billion) by Chinese manufacturers in the manufacture of OLED displays in the next few years.

The supply of  OLED displays might take five years to stabilise, and Samsung is expected to be the top manufacturer of plastic OLED and flexible OLED panels.

OLED display:

The firm expects in-display fingerprint to be introduced by next year, and commercialised by 2019. The report also mentions that out of 165 million smartphones are to be shipped this year; 11 percent of the phones will include full-screen displays and the figure will grow to 80 percent by 2020.

Samsung in OLED manufacturing to boost the production of the OLED panels.  Also mentions that Apple has ordered 70 million flexible OLED panels from Samsung for its upcoming iPhone in 2017.

Apart from smartphones OLEDs are also used in making curved displays for TV and other display devices. Plastic OLEDs are bendable and might become semi-transparent in the years ahead.