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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).

    --

    Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada, B3H 3J5
  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