Question Are manufacturers able to produce smaller OLED monitors?

[poweradapters]

Are the monitor manufacturers able to produce smalled OLED monitors or are their restraints to this production?
I/m asking this because I have not seen any OLED monitors smaller then 27" or having 1080 to 1440p to 2K resolutions. All these features together pretty much. There are smaller the 17" screens via laptops and for example the Nintendo Switch variant console. Why not the in between?

 

[Glo.]

Are the monitor manufacturers able to produce smalled OLED monitors or are their restraints to this production?
I/m asking this because I have not seen any OLED monitors smaller then 27" or having 1080 to 1440p to 2K resolutions. All these features together pretty much. There are smaller the 17" screens via laptops and for example the Nintendo Switch variant console. Why not the in between?

They can, its just not financially feasible.

Profit has to justify such product, and smaller than 27", non-premium profit market does not justify it.

 

[Muadib]

I recall the first OLED that I saw was the Sony XEL-1. It was 14" I believe.

 

[bba_tcg]

I've changed out an OLED laptop screen, or two, so yes they can make them smaller.

 

[bigboxes]

I recall the first OLED that I saw was the Sony XEL-1. It was 14" I believe.

It was 11". It was incredibly expensive. $2,499 MSRP (in 2007 dollars).

 

[Mopetar]

I think the answer is obvious. Many smartphones with OLED displays have a resolution equivalent to or greater than those in monitors.

The problem is that there's not nearly as much demand for smaller, high-resolution displays. The 13" iPad Pro is basically (95.5% of the vertical pixels) a 4:3 aspect ratio version of a 4K display. Would you buy a monitor that small though?

 

[Fallen Kell]

Yes, they can absolutely create smaller OLED monitors. The problem is that they will not with the current size of the silicon wafers used in the current generation manufacturing plants. The TV's and monitors are all laid out on this wafer and then cut up into the smaller panel sizes that then get used in the TVs and monitor manufacturing. The various sized panels currently being generated have all been optimized to fit on the wafer with minimal loss of surface area of the wafer. While they could certainly cut 24" panels instead of the 27" ones, they would then be losing all the surface area that could have been used to make the 27" panel, but there is not enough space in the layout to otherwise make use of it (i.e. there isn't enough to make an additional panel as the unused portions can not be oriented in a fashion to fit an additional panel with the remains).

Now it a case might be made at some point to figure out a new layout and orientation if the mix of panels they want to produce changes (i.e. they decide they want to make a different mix of sizes and they find they can fit the 24" panels more optimally...). However, I don't see that happening on the current generation plants. It might be introduced when they have the plants needed for producing larger than 77" QD-OLED panels (which should occur with the next gen plants), but again it is not a given that it will happen, only that it could and most likely would occur at the introduction of a new wafer size when they need to create the layouts of all the panel sizes they will manufacture with it.