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Roll-Up Monitors A Step Closer To Reality

Posted by timothy on from the working-toward-the-veldt dept.

gwernol writes "CNN are covering the merger of two of the leading companies in the field of OLEDs. This brings the dream of flexible plastic monitors and TVs a step closer to fruition. You can find out more at Cambridge Display Technology who have acquired Opsys. CDT's technology paper on light emitting polymers (in the Research & Technology section of their site) is interesting reading."

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  1. Reuters Article by nekdut · · Score: 5, Informative

    Reuters has an article regarding this technology as well:

    Reuters Link

  2. Very good to hear! by PhysicsScholar · · Score: 4, Informative

    Even though most folks think that LCD monitors are the paramount devices through which to interact and view data on computer machinery, they're wrong.

    This isn't bad, however, because the up-and-coming OLEDs (as detailed in the introduction to this particle story) are much cheaper to produce and should mature faster than LCDs did in the 1990s, which was their early testing period.

    With OLEDs, one also finds a much-increased video brightness, faster response times (no ghosts while gaming or watching DivX ;-) rips), much enhanced durability, and lighter, to boot!

    Finally, these run much hotter but are much less prone to being affected by temperature fluctuations. This means it could easily serve as a server monitor in a 100 degree PowerEdge server closet or as the primary video output terminal at a physics laboratory in Iceland (where I study in the summer).

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  3. Already done -- in prototype by mfago · · Score: 5, Informative

    Check out the image at the lower left.

    They used to have a movie of this screen being flexed while an animation played on it. Really awesome. Clicking on the link now leads to a much less impressive movie...

  4. The better video link.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.universaldisplay.com/foled.php

  5. Re:These OLEDs technologies are pretty promising by saider · · Score: 2, Informative

    The last sentance does:

    The two companies hope to blend their technologies to improve the lifetime of the dendrimers.

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  6. This idea is old hat by hfastedge · · Score: 1, Informative

    Since 1975 a researcher at Xerox has had the idea of *some* form of paper-thin rendering device.

    Over the years, and until I heard of this article, there were two main labs with two different approaches.

    One is a shootoff from xerox. It uses microbeads with a different color on each side, and voltage to rotate them. www.gyriconmedia.com. This company has been in production mode for a year now, and has just built a massive new factory. It will be the initial leader. It only has 2 color versions right now, but more stuff in the works.

    The other effort has been at MIT using a process spawned off of the lab technique electrophoresis. These displays seem to be more refreshable (eg ive seen a movie playing off on). http://www.eink.com/

    So thats that, old hat.

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  7. Not likely... by PseudoThink · · Score: 3, Informative

    Some things I learned about displays in Psych 342 at Cornell: Display quality can be primarily measured by luminence, resolution, refresh rate, color gamut, and contrast ratio. While it is relatively easy to produce the necessary refresh rate to fool the human eye and display resolution is improving (also depends on how far from display you are), the rest are hard. DLP probably does the best job of current displays, and it maxes out at about 1000:1 contrast ratio, but it doesn't really count since it operates by reflecting light, and this thread is about flat-panel displays. I forget the exact values for daylight-level luminence and contrast ratio, but they are at least two orders of magnitude larger than what is currently available in CRTs or LCDs.

  8. You CAN wait for your lightweight laptop... by gsfprez · · Score: 3, Informative

    you've been doing it for over 5 years now..

    or did you all miss the fact that their first press release - which reads amazingly similar to their latest ones (without the patent listings) came out in 1997?

    http://www.universaldisplay.com/newsroom.php?pr= 19 97-08-05

    until i can buy a monitor based on this technology, i'm putting it up there with 10 GB sugarcube sized holoraphic memory, a actual Windows/Mac desktop-replacement Linux, and 3G.

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  9. Re:Heh by x01mOiRe10x · · Score: 2, Informative

    not so crazy. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.11/eword.html ?pg=3

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