Still waiting on that big-screen
OLED TV? Yeah, so are we, but here's some news that could mean they're coming soon: OLED tech has just been obsoleted. Seriously. We still can't even afford an
11-inch model and now we have to start pining for something new: OLET. That's Organic Light Emitting Transistor, tech that researcher Michele Muccini at the Institute of Nanustructured Materials has just proven can be between two and 100 times as efficient as OLED. OLETs rely on three layers of material, with the bottom layers carrying a charge, the middle layer (the meat in this high-tech sandwich) emitting photons when excited by the bottom, and the top layer selectively letting those photos through. All three combined are just 62nm thick. It's this separation of layers and horizontal flow of current that gives OLET its efficiency and it's believed that it could not only be used for (next) next-generation displays but also for on-chip optical interconnects. When will an OLET HDTV will hit the market? Don't even go there.
posted May 6th 2010 1:41PM
i hate organic chemistry sooooo much.
@BrianH This is rather organic physics.
@BrianH
this won't be useful for atleast 10 years. our manufacturing processes have the width of a wire down to 25nm at the smallest, so to connect these things to make an array of pixels it would be like manufacturing a tv with the same density as a microprocessor, at a grand per square centimeter. imagine a 50" core i7, not so cheap
@BrianH Nanu Nanu!
Engadget.
It is: Institute of Nanostructured Materials not Nanu.
@BrianH
Heheh - "excited by the bottom"
@Drago
Nanu nanu.....Shazbat !
@Drago Is that where they make iPod Nanos?
@seminolemuscle
It's 62 nm thick, not in width. So you could make a pixel exactly the same size as an LCD pixel, but it would be thinner, lighter, and more efficient. It will still be 10 years before this makes it anywhere near production though.
@seminolemuscle
That's 62nm thick, not wide. Wire thickness is not stopping this from going in to production.
@BrianH
"That's Organic Light Emitting Transistor, tech that researcher Michele Muccini at the Institute of Nanustructured Materials has just proven[,] can be..."
Comma please, between "proven" and "can." I had to read that a few times to understand...
@BrianH
Organic chemistry is much easier and understandable than nonorganic.
but i have one right here...
@skyblaze big deal i got 2...wait what are we talking about?
OH LED (Get it?) Your life was short lived it seems.
@Jaylittles531
No, explain it please.
@NeoJew
Oh LED
try to read it aloud
For the low, low price of $19,999.95
@TheHeretic Apple would have to own the patents for it in such a case. Thankfully this isn't the case.
I hope... o_O
@loocas
"iHope" will be a registered trademard by Apple fot a OLET display :)
@TheHeretic, per full pixel, or per just one color?
@TheHeretic Don't buy KIRFy products by noname chinese knock-off companies! Sony OLET HD-ready TV! Astonishing 11 inches all yours for only $299 999.95!!!
OLET
how creative
@Verythrax
It's named after the acronym of the technology.
@Verythrax
I wonder if the "t" is silent, like in the word "debut" ...
OLET, OLET OLET OLET! OLET! OLET!
(I'm down-ranking myself)
@ytilanigiroon So the Spaniards and Mexicans have been using this technology in their songs for YEARS!
@ytilanigiroon
as long as it doesn't have the same side effects as OLEAN, we should be OK.
It's gonna be on the HTC Doomsday 6G
@N900
hah! that has nothing on my HTC Rapture 7G
@skyblaze
I'm holding out for the HTC God.
@Plaid Phantom
In soviet russia, HTC God holds out for you!
@Plaid Phantom HTC your mom.
Meh. At this rate, I'll wait for OLEQ to come out.
(Organic Light Emitting Quarks)
@Sisyphus Or OLEZ (Organic Light Emitting Z - the last letter in the alphabet)
@Sisyphus
I certainly won't be holding my breath waiting for this. I've been reading on tech blogs for years how OLED was the next big thing and how they would quickly become cheaper than LCDs. BS. We got no where near the hype. So I'm basically going to ignore OLET until I see large, cheap TVs using it on the market.
No, the question is will it bend and fold. The displays of the future better behave like paper or else I will be sorely disappointed.
I'll put this up with the fact that we can cure cancer (only in mice and pigs oddly), holographic storage crystals coming soon, and that flying car popular science has been promising me is RIGHT around the corner because some inventor has a prototype ALMOST ready (but can't be shown yet).
Sweet, so maybe in 2054 we can get an OLET television!
@DoctarPeppar, there will be no television in 2054... And good riddance!
Yes but will it be able to display Crysis
@oblivionbp
made me lol
@oblivionbp Will it Blend?
@oblivionbp In 4k resolution, 3D and onto a wall 500 meters away from you
There are so many double entendre possibilities in here I don't even know where to start! There are LAYERS of them!
Just gave us Hologram TV.
will it be as colorful and have the extreme contrast ratios of OLED?
And will it remain as accurate and bright as new, after years and years of use, like a LED-backlit LCD display?
@Old fogie late bloomer, LCD gets dimmer over the years as well - the time takes its toll on the backlight. But that's easily changeable - you don't need to change each pixel.
That's true especially of LCDs with fluorescent tube backlights, but I believe that displays that use RGB LEDs can last a long, long time.
@Old fogie late bloomer, 5 to 8 years with average usage for LED backlight, but still - it fails eventually as well. Fluorescent tubes start to exhibit light output decrease after just half a year... Of course, it becomes an issue for non-professional designers long after its predicted use-time...