Make no mistake, wrapping your mind around the build of an
OLED panel is mighty tough to do. Without getting you mired in technobabble, let's just say that indium tin oxide (ITO) has generally been a mainstay in every single OLED that was produced commercially. Now, a team of researchers from AGFA-Gevaert, IMEC, Holst Centre and Philips have prototyped a 12- x 12-centimeter
flexible OLED lighting panel that swaps out the ITO for highly-conductive transparent resin electrodes. You see, it's been difficult for OLED builders to secure enough electrical conductivity of ITO in a low-temperature process, and this new methodology is perfectly suited for the coating method (which makes it ripe for printing). The resin itself is being dubbed Orgacon, and tests have shown it to have a 6x improvement over ITO in terms of electrical conductivity. Beyond that, the crews are keeping the secrets safe from the poachers of the world, but here's hoping this amounts to more than just jovial celebration in a far off laboratory.
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posted April 10th 2009 8:03AM
This is one of my tecno-dreams: a roll up (touch?) screen and/or surface to be deployed, (possibly wirelessly) wherever I need.
For the more immediate future I would just be happy with functioning CrunchPad.
The realisation of the Nokia morph concept is coming to pass... Check it out http://www.nokia.com/A4852062
Nokia Rules...
MADE WITH THE RESIN FORMED FROM NEWLY BORN BABIES INTERNAL ORGANS
then i guess it solves 2 problems, even better
"Dude we could totally make our own flexible OLED thing with all of the resin we have around our apartment.
Hey, who ate all of the pizza and Doritos?"
Nice.
With the advancements in the ion and tegra platforms and the Linux distros that are coming to fruition coupled with the speed that OLED's are being developed 2010-2011 are going to be very interesting years......
I want bendy screen now!
Good thing they're using something natural, like OH DEAR GOD IT'S POWERED WITH TREE BLOOD!
I just had an orgacon reading this...
oh man I say this for everyone i just cant wait for these to hit mainstream, imagine all the possibilities, foldable touchscreen phones, laptops with 24 inch displays you can fold up, clothing, I can't even begin to think right now
good news! mark my words, OLED is the future.
Thank you for the information I SOOOO didn't know that before you made that statement
okay, but why do you need to be a jerk about it?
besides, i've been telling people this for 3 years or so, before OLEDs were really used in consumer products. think you know so much about OLEDs? what about TOLEDs? SOLEDs? SOLEDs are going to revolutionize video displays.