OLED technology continues to evolve, and with it, OLED branding. Last December saw LG rebrand its OLED panels into two new categories: Tandem OLED and Tandem WOLED. It’s now Samsung’s turn, the with the company unveiling its new ‘QD-OLED Penta Tandem’ technology.
According to Samsung, the new branding was “created to highlight the distinctive value of its five-layer organic light-emitting structure applied to QD-OLED panels for premium monitors and TVs.” The bump from four to five blue-green OLED layers began to appear in some of the company’s products last year, including its 27-inch QD-OLED 4K panel.
With the new trademark registered, Samsung has confirmed a number of upcoming OLED panels that utilize its new Penta Tandem structure, including a 49-inch Dual QHD model with 5120×1440 resolution.
Penta Tandem increases luminous efficiency by 1.3 times and doubles the lifespan of panels when compared to its previous four-layer QD OLED structure, the company claims. Samsung says that its Penta Tandem panels feature a peak brightness of 4,500 nits for TVs and 1,300 nits for monitors, based on 3% OPR.
