Video: OLED technology explained using a pickle and an Igor

by Darren Murph Oct 2nd 2009 @ 9:53AM

Say bub, do you care to know what all that OLED jazz is about? We'll bet you do, but you don't wanna read some dry polysyllabic academic paper written by five guys during their time away from the lab. What you want is a sharp demonstration, preferably by an MIT professor, that goes straight to the point of what an Organic Light Emitting Diode is. Igor, roll in the pickle, please. Okay, he's not an Igor, his name is Vladimir Bulovic and he does a terrific job of explaining how the passing of electric current excites organic molecules into creating those luscious ultra-bright colors we lust after inside ridiculously small spaces. Slide past the break to see the vid in full, and yes, it's just as weird as you think it'll be.

[Via OLED Display]

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Filed under: Industry, OLED

Tags: demo, demonstration, MIT, oled, oled demonstration, OledDemonstration, pickle, science, video, vladimir bulovic, VladimirBulovic

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Pat_f40 @ Oct 2nd 2009 1:51PM

He says they are using 10 year old technology for the Sony 11" OLED tv???????

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darth cardo @ Oct 3rd 2009 2:12PM

surprised?

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Pat_f40 @ Oct 3rd 2009 5:26PM

A bit... I was thinking about a 6 year old tech...

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-pd- @ Oct 3rd 2009 11:31PM

I had that same thing as a kid, but I cooked hotdogs with it.

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