Re: flat CRT


"Noozer" <dont.spam@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Any idea when we are going to see mass produced OLED dispays of any
worthwhile size?

Assuming that by "worthwhile size," you're meaning something
like a monitor- or TV-sized panel (or at least something for
a notebook PC), I wouldn't expect any significant volumes
there until at least the end of the decade, if then. The material
lifetimes are getting up to the point where they'd be practical
(i.e., at least as good as a CRT), but the problem is that the
OLED may not offer an attractive enough set of advantages -
LCDs have become SO good, and there's a huge manufacturing
infrastructure devoted to them already. OLEDs are just
getting started, and the manufacturers (for most part, the same
companies now making the LCDs) would have to have some
pretty good reasons to make the huge investments it would
take to put OLEDs on the same scale. They're starting out
right now in such things as cell phones and digital cameras,
and those sorts of products DO see some significant advantages
from the OLED (thickness, weight, power), and being small
displays they take a smaller investment to get into large-volume
manufacturing.

Bob M.


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