TOKYO —

Sumitomo Chemical Co plans to launch the production and sales of large-screen organic electroluminescence display panels for use in televisions of 40 inches or larger, in 2009.

President Hiromasa Yonekura said his company is considering forming alliances for the development of such organic panels. EL panels are thinner than liquid display panels and consume less power.

Sumitomo Chemical is developing so-called macromolecule-type organic EL panels. Because these can be produced through an ink-jet printing process, it is possible to lower production costs and make large displays, a company spokesman said.

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  timeon at 10:22 PM JST - 12th May

  Sumitomo?! They're behind Mitsubishi, Sony or Panasonic, so I doubt they will win the OLED race. Especially when Sony launched the OLED TV already. And the tendency is to swift away from macromolecules, due to production, purification, reproducibility problems. And I would say exactly because we used macromolecules it was so difficult to ink-jet them, because the larger the molecule is, the less soluble it usually gets and you need more tricks to solubilize it. But maybe they have some new stuff I don't know about.

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