Re: [APD] OLEDs

[urville <urville at peoplepc_com>]

now i want to see an oled newspaper that i buy once and downloads my 
subscription.
heheh

Stuart Halliday wrote:

>urville wrote:
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>>oleds? please explain for the uninatiated!
>>Ian
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>Sorry about that.
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>Organic LEDS.
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>Current LEDs are inorganic.
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLED
>http://www.universaldisplay.com/white.htm
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>OLEDs are touted as the future for lighting as they hope to be able to 
>make theme *very* cheaply and on a range of surfaces as they can be 
>effectively sprayed onto the surface of an object.
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>The television set market is eagerly waiting for their arrival. They are 
>fully expected to replace Plasma TVs for example.
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>The delay at present seems to that they are susceptible to water damage.
>So currently need to be encased in glass. If they can be just coated in 
>plastic then they can be made lighter and very flexible. You can have 
>for example a roll up TV in your pocket.
>Some companies have claimed to have achieved this.
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>I expect in the next 10 years we'll even see OLED walls or lamps in 
>which we can alter the colour of the object just by turning a dial.
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>By 2006 they hope to have a white OLED outputting 20 lm/W (lumen/Watt) 
>for a life of 3000 hours (250days?) minimum. OK not as good as tubes 
>which can do 50lm/W. But it's early days.
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>A slab of OLED could in theory cover all the area of your aquarium 
>evenly, you'd be able to fade it up and down, control it's colour 
>temperature to simulate sunrise/set and you wouldn't need reflectors or 
>a heavy ballast unit.
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>I work for a electronic R+D company and we've had a few samples shown to 
>us. Nice even light across the slab surface.
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