Organic Light-Emitting Diode

(OLED)

Groups 7,8
Organic Light-Emitting Diode

 Emissive organic material, that

when supplied with an electrical
current, produces a superior
full-color flat panel display.
 OLED’s can provide brighter,
crisper displays on electronic
devices and it uses less power
than conventional light-emitting
diodes or liquid crystal displays.

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History

 First developed in the early 1950’s in France by applying a high-

voltage alternating current field to crystalline thin films of acridine
orange and quinacrine
 The first diode device was invented at Eastman Kodak in the 1980’s by
Dr. Ching Tang and Steven Van Slyke
 Today OLED is used in television screens, computer displays, portable
system screens, advertising, information and indication
 Also used in light sources for general space illumination, and large-
area light-emitting elements
How It Works?

 An OLED is made by placing a

series of organic thin films
between two conductors.
 As soon as electrical current is
applied, a bright light is emitted.
 OLED displays operate on the
attraction between positively
and negatively charged
particles.
How OLED’s are made

 Three
ways to  Vacuum deposition
 Organic vapor
manufacture phase deposition
 Inkjet printing (Best)

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Today’s Uses

 Small electronic  PDA’s

screens
 Motorola, Samsung,
Sony Ericsson
 Cameras
 Keyboads
 TVs and Monitors
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The Future for OLED Technology

 OLED’s can be printed onto flexible

substrates and this allows for new
innovations such as roll-up displays
and displays embedded in fabrics

 Green technology- OLED screens turned “off” will consumer no power

at all and show true black while LCD screens can not
 Cell phone prototypes by Motorola, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson have
used OLED’ s unique characteristics for flexible and bendable screens
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The Future for OLED Technology

 Recently, the Japanese government proclaimed that it was fully

supporting Sony, Toshiba, Sharp, Matsushita Electric and some other
companies in joint research of OLED TV Panels
 An agency set up for encouraging research, The New Energy and
Industrial Technology Development Organization, or NEDO, says they
are backing some companies
development of a 40-inch OLED
display to be complete
sometime around 2015
 Samsung super-thin
31” OLED screen was
launched in 2008
Advantages

 OLED substrates can be plastic rather than glass

 Easier to produce and can be made into larger sizes
 Brighter than LEDs because the organic layers are much thinner and can be
multi-layered
 Do not require backlighting like LCDs - LCDs work by selectively blocking areas
of the backlight to make the
images that you see, while OLEDs generate
light themselves
 Consume much less power than
LCDs - This is especially important
for battery-operated devices such as
cell phones
 Have large fields of view, about 170
degrees
Disadvantages

• Organic materials have a shorter lifetime than LCD and plasma screens
• Intrusion of water can destroy the organic materials
-Compensated by complex sealing processes
-Complex sealing processes make product less flexible
• Manufacturing processes are EXPENSIVE!
Questions?
Sources
How stuff works.com
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/oled1.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_light-
emitting_diode

http://www.samsungsdi.co.kr/contents/en/tech/disCla
ss_03_01.html

www.oled-info.com