Tuesday, November 22, 2011 They could lead the way to Hi-Def
displays that are large, almost paper thin, and portable. While
everyone is fully cognizant of the more common terms, such as
LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) and Plasma; which fortunately is
not an acronym, but a rather a descriptive term of the weird,
futuristic, fourth state of matter science going on behind the
flat panel, there continue to be new sets of letters, and the
latest seem to end in “ed”. Since the attack of the “eds” is all
good news for lovers of state-of-the-art technology, I will
attempt to elucidate some of the important points in an easy to
understand way beginning with OLED. Surprisingly, OLED is
already in use in some smaller video applications such as cell
phones and digital camera displays. It could have an extremely
bright future in FPD (flat panel display), but its debut into
the world of widespread mass production and sales in television
is still a year or two off. Samsung has released a prototype
40-inch HDTV using OLED that