OLEDs - Promises, Myths, and TVs

摘要

Much work remains before OLEDs can be considered a player in the display and lighting markets, but demonstrated performance in terms of black level, contrast ratio, efficacy, and lifetime is competitive in today's environment and should improve by 2-4 times overrnthe next 10 years. What remains is for mass manufacturing to deliver high yields at competitive costs and for companies to be willing to pursue the technology.rnIn reality, OLED displays are not a threat to TFT manufacturers; they are just an extension of thin-film technology. OLEDs replace the liquid crystal in a display but keep the expensive thin-film technology and the electronics. OLEDs are just another level of device architecture growth, the way VA and IPS improved upon TN-LCDs. TFT manufacturers should thus reap the benefits of a range of new technology created by chemists and chemical engineers.