Thursday, December 07, 2023

OLED breakthrough could mean cheaper TVs

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"... The new process, in simplest terms, involves replacing those rare minerals with not-so-rare -- and therefore more affordable --- minerals. Diving into the science, the process involves grinding manganese bromide with benzyltriphenylphosphonium bromide. That solution is then dissolved into single MnBz crystals, which are used to create a light-emitting device (the LED part of OLED). 

These new LEDs didn't just provide the quality that traditional OLEDs do, they did so with a record-breaking efficiency and a low turn-on voltage. So in addition to a lower initial cost, the new discovery could also lead to a lower long-term cost of owning an OLED.  ..."

OLED breakthrough could mean cheaper TVs | ZDNET South Korean researchers propose a method to make the screens without the use of expensive rare-earth minerals.

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