Super-thin flexible OLED from Sony

October 7, 2009 by Lin Edwards weblog
Super-thin flexible OLED from Sony

Enlarge

Vaio with flexible OLED screen. Image: Scott Ard/CNET

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sony is showing off prototypes incorporating its super-thin, flexible OLED technology at the CREATEC JAPAN 2009 IT and electronics trade show in Makuhari Messe (Chiba) in Japan.

Sony's new "bendable" and transparent organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology is being shown in prototypes featuring an OLED a mere 0.2 mm thick. The prototype devices are a notebook, a flexible e-book, and a Walkman bracelet.

The OLED screen is transparent and flexible, and the viewing angle range is almost unlimited. OLED technology has a number of advantages over LEDs, including higher efficiency, faster response times, and no requirement for backlighting. The devices also have very low energy needs.

Super-thin flexible OLED from Sony
Enlarge

Sony's flexible OLED-based Vaio notebook--not coming to a store near you. Image: Scott Ard/CNET

Super-thin flexible OLED from Sony
Enlarge

The Sony Reader and Walkman redone with flexible OLED technology. Image: Scott Ard/CNET

Early efforts to manufacture transparent and flexible OLEDs met with resolution problems and distortions of the image when the device was bent or folded.

demonstrated an OLED television in 2008 at the in Las Vegas, Nevada, and a flexible 0.2 mm thick OLED audio player at this year's show. Several other companies, such as Samsung and LG, are also working on flexible displays.

The devices on show at CEATEC JAPAN are all at the concept stage and there is no indication of when, or even if, they will ever be marketed.

The CEATEC (Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies ) JAPAN event showcases IT and electronic innovations. The theme for 2009 is "Digital Convergence ? Defining the Shape of Our Future". The exhibition opened on October 6 and runs until October 10.

via CNet News

© 2009 PhysOrg.com

view popular send feedback to editors
4.6 /5 (31 votes)  

Filter


Move the slider to adjust rank threshold, so that you can hide some of the comments.


Display comments: newest first

RayCherry
Oct 07, 2009

Rank: 5 / 5 (1)
The technology superhighway has a traffic jam. Since the global economic 'accident', technology distribution is operating much slower than innovation and maturation, leaving us with a retail queue of, in this case, display products from Plasma, through LCD, LED and Flexible OLEDs ...

How long should we wait, and should we buy the interim products?
powercosmic
Oct 07, 2009

Rank: 2 / 5 (1)
I'm not buying the interim products, why would you?

OLEDs will be much lower power than current tech, besides by not buying the prices come down faster.
alq131
Oct 07, 2009

Rank: 4 / 5 (1)
It's not the distribution that is in a traffic jam. Much of it is still the manufacturing capabilities. On the range of products, all offer different capabilities. Some people prefer plasma over LED and vice versa. As for OLED, being the new kid on the block means that they are still trying to manufacture these and get high yields. Initial launches will be very expensive and probably only available to the early adopters.

Basically, if you're in the market for a TV now, get one that has the performance and price you need. Waiting for new tech is an uncertain gamble.
otto1923
Oct 07, 2009

Rank: 1 / 5 (1)
How long should we wait, and should we buy the interim products?
Buy what you can afford exactly when youll be needing it. I'm waiting for HUD eyecover films and audio parenteral implants. Tomorrow?

That little notebook is magnificent.
DoktorSerendipitous
Oct 07, 2009

Rank: 4 / 5 (1)
No implants. When they fail, who is going to pay for the cost of removal and re-implant surgery? Those kinds of implant are yet another bionic "improvement" waiting to push our health care cost to the stratosphere.
PPihkala
Oct 07, 2009

Rank: 1 / 5 (1)
"OLED technology has a number of advantages over LEDs, including higher efficiency, faster response times, and no requirement for backlighting."

It would make much more sense if the above text would have been written with LCD instead of current word LED. OLEDs are competitors of LCD, not with inorganic LEDs.
otto1923
Oct 08, 2009

Rank: 4 / 5 (2)
pay for the cost of removal and re-implant surgery?
Cost? Why, the govt will pay. Cheap actually, as both procedures will be entirely automated using robotic surgeons. Technology is going to change medicine in unimaginable ways. Why do you think this adjustment is happening now?
acarrilho
Oct 10, 2009

Rank: 3 / 5 (1)
It's speculated by some that the level of automation achieved today could already make everything free, if some did not enjoy having so much more than others. I tend to think this is true.
Buyck
Oct 11, 2009

Rank: not rated yet
The products showed in the video and in the article stunning. When are they on the market? I hope by 2 years!
TJ_alberta
Oct 12, 2009

Rank: not rated yet
every tiny bopper in the world is going to want a bracelet like that.
Rank 4.6 /5 (31 votes)
Tags

sony, electronic innovations, prototype device, oled technology, oled screen, oled, consumer electronics show, vaio, organic light emitting diode
Related Stories
more news
Relevant PhysicsForums posts
  • feed hold button on CNC lathe
    created3 hours ago
  • Mechanics of Solids ( Final exam question) plz help!
    created5 hours ago
  • RFAC in Fortran
    created8 hours ago
  • dynamics 2/32
    created14 hours ago
  • dynamics
    created14 hours ago
  • Vibration Absorbtion Problem
    created19 hours ago
  • More from Physics Forums - General Engineering

More news stories

Review: Soulo converts iPad into karaoke machine

Karaoke lovers typically fall into two categories: Those who enjoy it, and those whose arms have to be twisted to get up and sing in public.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created 16 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google rumored to have built Heads-Up-Display glasses prototype

(PhysOrg.com) -- 9to5Google is reporting that they have received a tip from someone they believe to be a reliable source saying that Google is working on a Heads-Up-Display (HUD) pair of eye-glasses. The per ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast weblog

Intel packs performance and reliability into its latest SSD 520 series

Intel Corporation announced today its fastest, most robust client/consumer solid-state drive (SSD) to date, the Intel Solid-State Drive 520 Series (Intel SSD 520), a 6 gigabit-per-second (gbps) SATA III SSD ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Airborne robot swarms are making complex moves (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania this week released a video that shows their new look in GRASP Lab robotic flying devices. They are now showing flying devices with more complex ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (30) | comments 10 | with audio podcast report

Hitachi ships the industry's first 25-nanometer SLC NAND flash enterprise-class SSDs

Demonstrating its commitment to delivering leading-edge technologies and solutions for enterprise-class servers and storage systems, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced that its ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


Tidal forces could squeeze out planetary water

Alien planets might experience tidal forces powerful enough to remove all their water, leaving behind hot, dry worlds like Venus, researchers said.

Google launches Chrome browser for Android smartphones

With more and more people connecting to the Internet through a phone or a tablet instead of a PC, Google Inc. is bringing its fast-growing browser, Chrome, to the newest Android-powered mobile devices.

Kodak to stop making cameras, digital frames

Kodak says it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames in order to focus on its more profitable businesses.

Oracle to pay $1.9B for personnel software co.

(AP) -- Oracle is paying $1.9 billion for Taleo Corp., a company that helps businesses manage their employees.

Antarctic lake could reveal evolution, new life: scientists

Russian scientists said Thursday a probe to a pristine lake deep under the ice of Antarctica could bring revelations on the planet's evolution and possibly even new life forms.

Can indigenous insects be used against the light brown apple moth?

The light brown apple moth (LBAM), Epiphyas postvittana (Walker), an invasive insect from Australia, was found in California in 2006. The LBAM feeds on apples, pears, stonefruits, citrus, grapes, berries and many other plants ...