Sony Shows Super-thin EL OLED Display

Submitted by lalit on April 19, 2008 - 8:23pm.

Sony showed their new electroluminescent (EL) OLED display at the Display2008 conference in Tokyo. OLED displays are very thin, as they don’t use backlights. The Electroluminescent layer contains a polymer substance that itself emits light when activated by an electric current. The display shown by Sony is literally paper-thin, a premium quality paper is in between 0.25mm to 0.35mm thick and the display is just 0.3mm thick. The display is 10 times thinner than its predecessor used in Sony XEL-1 TV, which was 3mm thick. The Sony XEL-1 TV has 11” screen with 960 x 540 resolution and is priced around $2000. Even though the new display is 10 times thinner it will have higher contrast ratio and faster response time than its predecessor, which is already way better than the LCD and Plasma TVs. Price and Size are the two problems stopping OLED TV from becoming the king of display technology. The largest available screen size is 11” for OLED TV and you will pay $2000. You can easily buy a very good 46” LCD or Plasma TV for that price.

 

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