Forever Lasting: DuPont creates high-longevity OLED materials
May 31, 2009 by Derek
DuPont has been dipping their toe into OLED waters for awhile now, and their hard-working engineers have come up with a fascinating development (and one that could echo with importance down the road for OLED and HDTV fans).
For the OLED TV scene, getting this sets to last for a while has been one of the biggest drawbacks, and concerns. If this newest advance pans out, it won’t be an issue any longer.
DuPont has created a green light-emitting material that can operate for over a hundred years… without shutting it off at all. Yes, that’s very cool, indeed. And those same scientists have engineered a new blue light with a glow half-life of 38,000 hours along with a red-light material with a life of 62,000 hours. In other words, it’ll pretty much generate a TV that will last for many years before any repair attention needs to be paid to it.
The only bad side: This tech probably won’t be very affordable for awhile, so put away the party hats, HD fans…for now. In the long run though, this is huge for the future of HD, as it will make TVs more practical for everyone.
