Future Organic Display Technology Here Today

Samsung OLED TV Prototype

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In an industry that goes gaga over flat display technology such as LCD and plasma, OLED is set to create unparalleled excitement within the next few years. Still in its infancy the latest organic display technology promises to provide us with OLED offering better energy efficiency, razor thin 3mm - 4.3mm thick TV displays, ultra fine angle viewing, with intensely vivid colours, super high contrast ratio (up to 1 million:1 in certain displays) plus it can be used as high intensity light emission for any superior lighting needs. Refresh rates are an issue compared to crt and lcd however at present any organic displays are comparabily slower.

One significant advantage that OLED has over LCD is the lower cost of manufacturing since the displays do not require backlighting to function like a liquid crystal or plasma screen does since the organics are stimulated to phosphorize. However, OLED technology isn't without its drawbacks, in particular panel longevity. The organic compounds degrade with use, especially those that emit blue light, so they won't operate at full brightness for anywhere near as long as an LCD will. The addition of phosphorescent materials do improve OLED longevity, but still not up to LCD levels.

The bottomline - wherever there is a need for utilizing some form of OLED it will certainly gain a lot of respect and have a major influence on the industry as time unfolds.

Current and Expected Usage

As of now the applications of OLED's are largely restricted within a few, small consumer devices such as mobile smartphone displays, MP3 and MP4 players, portable movie and music players, watches as well in some digital cameras. Major manufacturers of OLED TV's like Sony's recent XEL-1 release, Samsung's upcoming 31" OLED TV in 2008, Matsushita, Canon and Hitachi's alliance in AMOLED is heading for some awesome new products. Their interest is to target the smaller display markets which is a gigantic industry in itself.

Along with a growing number of other companies who are developing products this is an obvious indicator of the trend to bio type devices. Gearing up their facilities to start manufacturing OLED products for the North American and European markets.

It looks like OLED is destined to become the newest trend in home entertainment and work centers very soon, on its way to become the most superior high def display technology in history, eventually leading the way over LCD and plasma.

Once this technology is integrated within the normal consumer retail channels, it is expected to become a huge major growth sector with a continued demand many different applications in the organic screen marketplace. This would include as an example, highly efficient household and commercial lighting that are bio friendly which has no ill effects on humans, animals or our environment. The future is now for ultra-thin flat panel super high def televisions, organic razor thin computer monitors, high power portable and flexible display's with wi-fi capabilities that can accept data then displayed to the user.

This one device would be similar to the electronic newspaper display reader in the Tom Cruise movie " Minority Report ". Similar to the electronic billboards and the subway rider's handheld, paper thin, wifi e-newspaper. Incorporating flexible and stiff AMOLED and/or FOLED for example into varied types of smartphones, pc and tv displays, laptops that would be ultra-thin with more power, portable devices and with OLED light becoming the highest quality replacement to the ubiquitous and dated white incandescent light bulb.

In sub-verticals such as automotives, aviation, military, medical, entertainment, commercial, industrial, scientific, etc, etc, OLED will now be used in a host of ways in many other industries where such tech was not expected to make a mark at any time soon.

However not one to be left behind LCD especially and plasma to follow LCD is still currently the major leader and will hold its share of the massive electronic display market until OLED production costs drop to competitive levels to compete with LCD and plasma technology. Already LCD and plasma costs are dropping very fast into retailers across North America in the making of the next generation of OLED.

The Future is Now

The future of organic electronic products has arrived with continual steady growth for years to come once the major manufacturers are tooled up for mass production of whatever they decide to create on their drawingboards. Due to the efficiency of OLED's battery power that once was used by devices to power the bigger lcd screens for example, will be saved and used on power aspects for other requirements / parts of the device. This will no doubt lead to much more extremely powerful digital / bio smart products with many new applications yet to be seen.

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