Samsung Display is the world's most impressive display manufacturing firm. Its OLED panels are used in millions of smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, laptops, monitors, and TVs. It has now unveiled a new OLEDoS panel for XR headsets, and it is brighter and sharper than last year's panel.

At the ongoing Society for Information Display (SID) 2025 expo, Samsung Display unveiled its newer-generation OLED-on-Silicon (OLEDoS) display panel for XR headsets. It is a 1.4-inch panel with a pixel density of 5,000ppi, a peak brightness of 15,000 nits, and a 120Hz refresh rate. Moreover, it features an impressive 99% DCI-P3 color gamut coverage.

The company says the new panel is equivalent to delivering higher resolution than an 8K TV, which is impressive to say the least. It is designed for next-generation XR headsets and will likely not appear on Samsung's own upcoming XR headset.

The South Korean firm also unveiled a new RGB OLEDoS panel with a pixel density of 4,200ppi and a peak brightness of whopping 20,000 nits. It is the company's brightest RGB OLEDoS panel yet. Last year, the company's RGB OLEDoS panel had a peak brightness of 5,000 nits, and at CES 2025, the company displayed a panel with a peak brightness of 10,000 nits.

OLEDoS is a technology that deposits organic materials directly on a silicon wafer instead of glass substrate. This allows pixels to be as small as tens of micrometers. So, more pixel can be fitted into a much smaller area compared to displays found on smartphones.

Such displays are usually smaller than 2 inches diagonally but have more resolution than an 8K TV. These displays are generally used on augmented-reality (AR), mixed-reality (MR), virtual-reality (VR), and extended-reality (XR) headsets.

There are two types of OLEDoS panels. One type uses a white OLED light source and RGB color filters, while the other type uses red, green, and blue (RGB) sub-pixels, so there is no need for a separate color filter layer, resulting in higher brightness and more accurate color reproduction.

Samsung acquired eMagin, a US-based Micro OLED and OLEDoS panel early 2023 to improve its display panel business. The acquisition was completed in October 2023.

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