OLED Displays

Please refer to the beginning of the article where I talk about flexible displays and defined what OLED (Organic light emitting diode displays) are. You can already experience OLED display technology. Simply walk into any electronic supply store and ask to see a Creative Zen Plus Mp3 player. The photos and videos look very vivid through the 1.5 OLED screen. The screen is viewable from any angle. You can comfortably watch a movie on your Creative Zen Plus Mp3 player while waiting for your partner to arrive for dinner at your favorite restaurant.

Here are the 3 advantages of OLED displays:

• Compared to LCD displays, the organic compound layer on a OLED which sandwich electrode layers are self illuminating which means you won't drain your cell phone battery.
• Each pixel on an OLED display can be turned on and off much faster than a LCD pane, this makes the images appear brighter and crisper. Watching a video clip on a cell phone LCD, you no doubt see blurriness or after images. This would be eliminated with OLEDs.
• The last advantage of OLED displays is it is much cheaper to manufacture. The OLED displays are printed on a substrate (glass or plastic) using high level inkjet printing technology. These displays are printed on long substrate sheets which can be chopped up in to tiny cell phone screens.