14 DAY TRIAL // Kodak has been quite actively involved in the development of OLED displays over the past couple of years, and the results are beginning to show as we speak. First, it launched that wireless, OLED – only digital photo frame a while back, and now it's time for yet another innovation in the field, namely the introduction of an efficient OLED material that will enable low-power, full-color displays with very long functioning periods.
The new material doesn't have some fancy, eye-catching name; it's simply called KODAK OLED Material EK-GD403. It utilizes green dopant technology and, used in combination with another Kodak OLED Material, the EK-BH109, it provides low-voltage green OLEDs with luminous efficiencies greater than 31 cd/A and lifetimes in excess of 65,000 hours (from an initial luminance of 1,000 cd/m2).
"The benefits of OLED technology are well-known and Kodak is working to extend those benefits and accelerate OLED adoption for numerous applications," said Dr. James Buntaine, chief technical officer and vice president, Kodak OLED Systems. "In addition to display screens, Kodak’s new green dopant can be used to boost the efficiency of solid-state lighting applications and reinforces Kodak’s environmental stewardship by enabling future devices with lower power consumption and longer lives."
Moreover, the company's not about to stop its development "engines" anytime soon. As Corey Hewitt, operations manager and vice president, Kodak OLED Systems, puts it, "Kodak has continued to make greater than 50 percent year-over-year improvements in OLED luminance efficiencies over the past few years, and we will continue to fill the pipeline with new innovation to ensure that Kodak OLED materials are ready for use in emerging large-market applications."
In other words, in the near future, we might see a host of products featuring Kodak OLED displays, like digital photo frames, computer displays, cell phone screens...sky's the limit, actually.
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