Samsung Display has hired Lee Jeong-yong, a professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST and an expert in next-generation display core materials and devices, as an executive vice president.
According to the industry on the 21st, Lee joined on the 16th as executive vice president in charge of research at Samsung Display.
Lee received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Seoul National University and earned his doctorate from Stanford University in the United States. After that, he served as a professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST for 16 years and 7 months from 2010 to this year.
Lee is regarded as an authority in next-generation display materials and device technologies, including perovskite solar cells, next-generation light-emitting diode (LED) displays, and stretchable and transparent electrodes for AUK optoelectronics.
Samsung Display is said to be accelerating the discovery of future core display technologies and the acquisition and commercialization of stretchable displays through Lee's recruitment.
A stretchable display is a next-generation display technology that can be stretched like rubber, folded, and twisted, and then return to its original shape. Samsung Display previously unveiled a prototype that achieved 25% elongation and 200 PPI (pixels per inch)-class resolution. However, elongation and resolution are technically conflicting characteristics, so developing technology that improves both performance simultaneously is necessary for commercialization.
It has been eight years since Samsung Display hired an academic expert at the executive vice president level. In 2018, the company hired then-Seoul National University professor Lee Chang-hee as chief technology officer (CTO) and executive vice president.