Who invented OLED?
OLEDs basically consist of emissive organic material which when supplied an electric current produces a colourful display on the flat panel. OLED is better than other screen technologies in many ways such as being ultra thin, and it can even be placed on plastic film. As a result, it becomes much easier to handle and becomes much lighter than any other flat panel display screen. It is even lighter than hand held devices such as laptops and notebooks. It even opens the door to flexible displays. OLED is also brighter and has better contrast than LCD, but does not require back-lighting.
OLED was first invented in the early 1980s by Eastman Kodak and it has been improving since then. It consumes about 20% less power than LCD, and has a response time every bit as fast as CRT displays. OLED also has the advantages of consuming less power, brighter and thinner contrast ratios, and better display than traditional LCDs. As a benefit for the manufacture, they are cheaper to produce.
The start of light was with the invention of incandescent bulb by Thomas Alva Edison and he would be pleased to know that he laid the foundation to today’s growing industry of OLED technology and that his seed would sprout and grow into becoming OLED: Organic Light Emitting Diodes. This new technology changes the light bulb we and Mr. Edison are familiar with into a very thin and flexible sheet of bright, white light.
This technology has come up quite lately and is still going through a lot of research and developmental phases and the obvious light of the foreseeable future. OLED Lights occurs when current passes through thin films of light-emitting material. Because it is possible to make these lights very thin, transparent, and flexible, lighting designers are opened to entirely new creative possibilities. Organic LED Lighting is used almost exclusively today in the design of stunning displays but there are a number of manufacturers in the US and EU developing ways to create white light using this technology.
In addition to designers being inspired by Organic LED Lighting technology the environmentally conscious are as well. OLED is highly efficient and these objects of light do not contain mercury like CFL lamps causing fewer recycling issues. That would make the new OLED white light quite Green.
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