Sumpin' like dat.
Posted on 08/15/2005 8:51:36 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
See link for photos....
Sumpin' like dat.
Just amazing, inkjets printing displays!
What does that do?
Or what am I looking at?
That be a OLED-PLED TV screen
Technology marches on. In some areas of applied R&D there seems to be no limits as to what folks can come up with.
We take so much for granted in todays world.
ping.
I look forward to the day where we'll all have to install some sort of sealant around our kitchen cabinet doors in order to prevent all our PLED-coated food packaging from causing the entire room to take on a creepy glow all night long. But it will be nice having the Folgers can personally greet me each morning.
I had something bigger than that in mind and it needs some red and blue.
LOL, thnks.
Glad I'm not the only one asking that question. Can anyone translate the acronyms into geekspeak for dummies?
a pioneer of polymer-OLED (PLED) technology.
With Google's help we have:
Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) Technology: An Overview
OLEDs are the latest and most promising buzzwords in display technology. To give you an idea of their potential, imagine a cardboard-thin TV screen. Now imagine that you can roll up your TV, put it away or carry it wherever you go. Automatically, you start appreciating why millions, if not billions, of dollars are being poured into OLED research every year.
The aforementioned scenario is not hypothetical, or an imaginative scene from a Sci-Fi novel, as it exists right this minute at Ritek in Korea.
Now that you have begun to appreciate just how amazing OLEDs can be, let’s take a peak behind the scenes and see just how OLEDs work.
As the title states, OLED stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode – a diode is the simplest form of a semiconductor that allows current to flow in one direction and blocks it if it from flowing the opposite way.
Before we understand just how light is emitted by a diode, we need to understand the whole working process of a semiconductor.
Flow of Electricity:
Current flows from cathode to anode, or from negative charge to positive charge constantly. Elements get their charge depending on whether they have an extra electron or an extra proton. If they have an extra electron, they are negatively charged and emitted from the cathode. If they have more protons then they are positively charged and emitted from the anode.
When the electrons move from cathode to anode, we can say that the current is flowing. In insulators, all electrons are bonded to all protons, and hence there are no free electrons left to conduct the charge.
See the link for much more if interested.
Perfect. Thanks. That is truly amazing. Imagine what kind of technology we are going to be walking around with in 10 years.
I have OLEDs in the Vette for the information display. :-)
I have no idea what the hell they are talking about.
A Vette,....oh drool.....
Basically they are discussing using the same method that your inkjet printer uses for "painting" an organic material on a surface that lights up for making various displays such as a TV screen.
OLEDs are in production now. Often you see them in cars and stereos that have all the graphic displays etc.
Yea, went nutso about a month back and bought a 2005 C6 Vette Coupe. :-)
Sorry meant to ping you on post 18 as well.
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