Number 400 (Story #3), October 30, 1998 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein
STACKED ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES (SOLEDs) produce full color but take up less real estate on a chip than their planar counterparts which require 3 single-color pixels. This higher resolution, as well as tunability and good saturation (vivid primary colors rather than pastels), can now be had with the same voltages and efficiencies that apply to previous organic displays. Paul Burrows of Princeton (burrows@ee.princeton.edu) believes computer- sized flat panel displays using SOLEDs will be available within a few years. Smaller displays such as for cellphones may be realized even earlier. See figure at Physics News Graphics. (Paper at the AVS meeting.)
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