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Technology Stocks : Light Emitting Devices, organic and novel

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To: kinkblot who wrote (162)9/9/2000 11:22:30 AM
From: John Finley  Read Replies (2) of 330
 
Re: The dawn of organic electronics

Wow, what a good review article!! OLEDs have excellent potential but some significant roadblocks to implementation.

I thought I recognized the name, Stephen Forrest. Having read through some of his patents, I emailed him a while back with a question about the non-active dyes. He was kind enough to respond promptly and directed me to the folks at PANL (who were negotiating licensure of that patent, I guess, and didn't respond).

Anyway, this stood out in the article:
Currently, efficiencies of the best doped polymer and molecular OLEDs exceed that of incandescent light bulbs. Efficiencies of 20 lumens per watt have been reported for yellow-green-emitting polymer devices, and
40 lm/W attained for phosphorescent molecular OLEDs, compared to less than 20 lm/W for a typical incandescent light bulb. It is reasonable to predict that soon, efficiencies of 80 lm/W--a value comparable to that of fluorescent room lighting--will be achieved using phosphorescent OLEDs.


Cool!
JF
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