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Organic LED: Country lights way for future of television

By Robin Harding in Tokyo

Published: December 9 2009 16:44 | Last updated: December 9 2009 16:44

South Korea’s Samsung may have made significant inroads into the television market, but at least some part of the televisions of the future will be made in Japan.

That is because the manufacture of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) materials – the technology most likely to replace today’s liquid crystal displays – is dominated by two Japanese companies: Idemitsu Kosan and Sumitomo Chemical.

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