@OGH!_GitEmSteveDave: Well, this is all starting to make sense. The woman in turquoise and the guy in white wouldn't by chance be your parents would they?
@bosskev: Perhaps. I was adopted. Yup, 30 years and 364 days ago, I was handed over to a German Catholic Nurse as the bastard I was. She didn't speak a word of English, and sang lovely German lullabyes, which could explain my love of accents.
@bosskev: I was wondering the same thing. The only application I can think of is a largish screen that unrolls like a scroll, but even then I really don't see how that would be particularly useful.
And wouldn't all that flexing delaminate the particles that they so carefully deposited on the substrate?
There might be an application for really large screens, say 36 inches and up that you could roll up for easy transport, but even then the "screen" would need to be supported somehow, just as a standard projection screen is now, so you would not save much weight or space.
@Gary_7vn: You may not save much weight or space in the screen itself (with regards to a standard projection screen), but with the oled-flexible screen, the screen is all you need. No projector necessary.
I wonder if this department at ASU has bleechers in their lab, I would rather go watch them break some OLED ground than watch my good ol' college football team disappoint again.
A paper-thin rigid flat screen takes up the total volume of...well, a piece of paper, virtually negligible. However, that same flat screen rolled into even the tightest of tubes--say 1", which right such a tight radius looks to be unlikely--now adds considerable volume and bulge (and not the fun kind) to your electronic package (again, not the fun kind).
@Bigbadbikernerd: No question that ideas like roll-out screens are what we really want out of a flexible OLED screen, but this is still (unfortunately) far from achieving that. Being able to flex the screen is a nice start, but I get the sense from this that we are maybe a decade away from seeing our first roll-out screens.
I want one big enough to put on a t-shirt then walk around with a movie of the my insides. Or better yet, you could wear it jogging and have a picture of your...
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And wouldn't all that flexing delaminate the particles that they so carefully deposited on the substrate?
There might be an application for really large screens, say 36 inches and up that you could roll up for easy transport, but even then the "screen" would need to be supported somehow, just as a standard projection screen is now, so you would not save much weight or space.
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A paper-thin rigid flat screen takes up the total volume of...well, a piece of paper, virtually negligible. However, that same flat screen rolled into even the tightest of tubes--say 1", which right such a tight radius looks to be unlikely--now adds considerable volume and bulge (and not the fun kind) to your electronic package (again, not the fun kind).
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Samsung engineers: "HDMI port? Duh!.05mm? Helloooo! Are you listening?"