More for Mr Saxby and his art installation.
This time the emphasis is on the next step up from the passively-lit medium of electronic paper: Organic LEDs enable “Flexible Displays,” which are “emissive”- they have their own light source (thus they require more power) but can therefore be seen in the dark.- The folks at Universal Display have a set of 3 offerings based on Organic LEDs (“OLEDs”):
- Flexible OLED (FOLED) is flexible and lightweight, and could be used for giant TVs on a wall
- Transparent OLED (TOLED) is transparent, and visible from only a single face- so like a HUD on a car windshield
- Stacked OLED (SOLED) is made of multiple TOLEDs for full color and higher resolution.
- UK-based Cambridge Display Technology has a technology called Light Emitting Polymer- LEP. However I couldn’t find any further info on this technology while surfing their site!
- In this article from EE Times from 2002, DuPont Displays, Sarnoff Corp. and Bell Labs are working on a flexible organic TFT technology. Here’s the press release from Lucent.
- US Display Consortium has been funnelling money into OLED research recently, mainly for military applications… They also host the Flexible Display Initiative (FDI).