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OLEDs hold great promise for the future of computer screens, TV and displays on portable devices. OLED stands for organic light emitting diode, which is actually similar to the LED used in many modern flash lights today, except the process of putting these light emitting diodes into TV displays is obviously radically different than that of putting them into flash light. They need to be grouped in large amounts, hence they use what is called luminophore which is basically an atom or atomic grouping in an organic compound. In is obviously much more complicated than just that, but that is the basic idea. With these organic compounds and LEDs that produce light without back lighting the display, see LCDs must have a backlight to see anything, but an LED, as it’s name implies, emits it’s own light. Therefore OLEDs use much less power and can even be viewed in direct sunlight and better from different angles becase they of the fact emit thier own light, and do not need a backlight. Just Imagine, taking your laptop outside on a bright sunny day and being able to see the display no problem! OLEDs get better still; they can be printed on essentially any ink-jet printer, so they will be cheaper to make, will be much more flexible, and may even be employed on clothing and could be used to produce roll up monitors. This technology is however not without it’s downsides, such as short life of around a 1,000 hours and the high potential for water damage unless the screen is sealed. I believe with continued research and development these downsides will be easily overcome, and OLEDs will be the future of electronic displays.

This is a Samsung TV using their latest OLED screen of 40″, a resolution of 1280×800 (WXGA), a contrast ratio of 5000:1 and a very limited thickness, and was unveiled last year.

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