A nice pair of announcements of advances in OLED technology came out today. First off is from IGNIS, a new backplane technology they’re calling “MaxLife” which boasts an impressive 75,000 hour lifetime with no image degradation. In normal usage that’s 20 years of 10-hours a day viewing, with no burn-in.
Second is a new process from Vitex System Barix using alternating layers of ceramic and polymer films that can create an OLED display stronger than glass but only 50micrometers thin. Videos show existing Ca film layers literally evaporating in seconds of open-air exposure, while this process survives indefinately while being subjected to some brutal hammer-tests.
See videos of both after the break.
First, the IGNIS backplane technology in a 2.2 AMOLED display, suitable for mobile devices.
Second, the Vitex process showing it subjected to a hammer-test.
