Sony and Idemitsu announce luminous efficiency breakthrough in OLEDs

by Darren Murph, posted May 22nd 2008 at 8:45AM

Although Sony's mesmerizing XEL-1 has been picked apart (and not entirely in a good way), the firm has just announced a breakthrough in OLED technology in conjunction with Idemitsu Kosan. The two have teamed up to achieve 28.5-percent internal quantum efficiency (IQE) in deep blue fluorescent OLED devices, the "world's highest level of luminous efficiency for this technology." Though there's quite a bit of technobabble behind all of this, the gist is this: blue OLEDs are the most energy-intensive of the three primary RGB colors, and the development is expected to "significantly reduce the power consumption of OLED panels." Granted, most of the release is just bragging, but we ought to find out what this really means for consumers in the not-too-distant future.

[Via FarEastGizmos]

Filed under: Industry, Displays, Others, Sony

Tags: business, energy efficiency, EnergyEfficiency, Idemitsu, Idemitsu Kosan, IdemitsuKosan, industry, Luminous, oled, partner, partnership, power consumption, PowerConsumption, sony

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med1320 @ May 22nd 2008 10:14AM

Hahahaha, I'm First.

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Vinylvision @ May 22nd 2008 10:21AM

This could be very significant for future consumer on-camera camcorder monitors which currently eat battery power and are low resolution to boot. I sure hope OLED technology proves to be a worthwhile successor to current professional broadcast video monitors. The sooner, the better.

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