technology :: OLED - light of the future

It's the light of our future and it's called ELOD.
oled lighting
Very soon, we will be illuminating whole walls of our homes with OLED wallpaper that will turn them into ambient lighting and even massive whole wall televisions. OLED will illuminate an office cube or a bike, even the veneer of your countertops, cupboard doors, and appliances making them light sources for your home! Just what is OLED?
Short for organic light-emitting diode, OLED is a display device that sandwiches carbon-based films between two charged electrodes, one a metallic cathode and one a transparent anode, usually being glass. The organic films consist of a hole-injection layer, a hole-transport layer, an emissive layer and an electron-transport layer. When voltage is applied to the OLED cell, the injected positive and negative charges recombine in the emissive layer and create electro luminescent light. Unlike LCDs, which require backlighting, OLED displays are emissive devices - they emit light rather than modulate transmitted or reflected light. OLED was invented by Eastman Kodak in the early 1980s. It is beginning to replace LCD technology in handheld devices such as PDAs and cellular phones because the technology is brighter, thinner, faster and lighter than LCDs, uses less power, offers higher contrast and is cheaper to manufacture.

oled lighting

General Electric is a leader in OLED technology and the quest to push efficiency in lighting applications to the next level. The glimpses we’ve been seeing are an exciting taste of what’s to come. Check out this video by GE that explains this mercury free and green technology and how it will change the way we think about lighting.


Other Related Posts