A community portal about Organic light-emitting diodes with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: An organic light-emitting diode is a special type of light-emitting diode in which the emissive layer comprises a thin...
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A community portal about Organic light-emitting diodes with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: An organic light-emitting diode is a special type of light-emitting diode in which the emissive layer comprises a thin-film of certain organic compounds. The emissive electroluminescent layer can include a polymeric substance that allows the deposition of very suitable organic compounds, for example, in rows and columns on a flat carrier by using a simple "printing" method to create a matrix of pixels which can emit different colored light. Such systems can be used in television screens, computer displays, portable system screens, advertising and information, and indication applications etc. OLEDs can also be used in light sources for general space illumination. OLEDs lend themselves for the implementation of large areal light-emitting elements. OLEDs typically emit less light per area than inorganic solid-state based LEDs which are usually designed for use as point light sources. Prior to standardization, OLED technology was also referred to as OEL or Organic Electro-Luminescence.
A BRIGHTER IDEA FROM PHILIPS
Light-emitting diodes, those silicon chips that burn brightly but consume far less energy than regular bulbs, are in their infancy as an industry. Sales of LEDs last year were about $2 billion, or less than 3% of global spending on lights. Yet the world's biggest lighting company is already bracing for the day LED components shrivel in value.
Philips is aware that, before long, the cost of LED technology will plunge, as it did for semiconductors 20 years... Read Full Story
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11/26/2009
OLED production
OLED white lighting
Osram Opto Semiconductors
Power consumption
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has released their first OLED Lighting product, called the ORBEOS. It has a round surface (88mm diameter), is only 2.1mm thick and weights 24g. The efficiency is 25lm/W. The panels are actually available now via OSRAM's site (here's the link to order one in the UK , if you have 220GBP to spare).
OSRAM ORBEUS OLED Lighting panel... Read Full Story
11/20/2009
Financial
Flexible OLEDs
Technical / Research
UDC
Universal Display (FDC) and the Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University announced that they have strengthened
their collaboration to extend to the joint fabrication of prototype
active-matrix PHOLEDs on flexible plastic substrates for the U.S.
Department of Army. In addition, Universal Display announced that the
company has been awarded a $650,000 U.S. Army Small... Read Full Story
11/19/2009
Fraunhofer
Manufacturing equipment
Philips
Technical / Research
The Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (ILT) is developing a new cost-efficient process for applying conductor paths to OLEDs. The new process also makes homogeneous luminosity for the OLED panels, thanks to micro-scale conductor paths.
When you make OLEDs, you apply metallic conductor paths to the anode layer (ITO - Indium Tin Oxide - or similar materials). The size... Read Full Story
11/20/2009
Samsung
Samsung will soon launch a new LiMo phone in Korea, the SCH-M510. It will feature a 3.5" WVGA touch OLED, 5mp camera, Wi-Fi, bluetooth and an accelerometer.
This might be just a rebrand of the Vodafone 360 H1 , we're not sure yet.
Via Samsung Hub
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Similar entries Sasmung to release an AMOLED LiMo vodafone phone? Samsung to launch a video-phone with infra-red Samsung infra-red video SCH... Read Full Story
11/19/2009
Apple
LG
There are new Apple-OLED-tablet rumors, this time from Digitimes , which might make it true this time. Apple are said to postpone their tablet PC to 2H 2010. There will be two models - one with a 10.6" TFT LCD, and one with a 9.7" OLED. The OLED will be made by LG Display.
Digitimes also say that a 9.7" OLED panel will cost about $500 US today, which is very expensive for such a gadget. However OLED Prices are expected to fall... Read Full Story
Sony is having financial problems in their TV business, and having to buy panels from Samsung was one of the reasons. Sony knows that having their own technology is key to future success. Now a Sony Executive hints that they are planning an upgrade to their OLED TV (the KDL-ZX ?). He also admits that their engineers were encountering technological problems with making larger OLEDs.
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11/20/2009
Technical / Research
ARM has presented their "Mobile Client 2010" reference design. Their new chip is the Cortex-A9 dual core CPU - these can be fast - up to 2Ghz, although for a mobile device this will probably be slower. It's not clear yet whether these chips will be ready for production in 2010.
The design also includes the ARM mali 400MP GPU and the screen of choice is a WVGA AMOLED.
Via Fudzilla... Read Full Story
11/18/2009
Manufacturing equipment
OLED production
Samsung
Samsung (SMD) have recently added one 3.5G (730x460mm) AMOLED vapor-deposition machine to its 3rd production line in Cheon-an. The new annual capability is now 24K panels (when all 3 lines are combined). They also plan to buy two new 3.5G machines (which will double the annual production rate).
In related news, Samsung Electronics say they will sell around 10 million phones this year with... Read Full Story
