Time is slowly running out for bulky television sets, boxy neon signs
and the square-edged backlit displays we all know from shops and
airports. It won’t be long before families gathering together to watch
television at home will be calling out: “Unroll the screen, dear, the
film’s about to start!” And members of the public may soon encounter
screens everywhere they go, as almost any surface can be made into a
display. “These may just be ideas at the mo- ment, but they have every
chance of becoming reality,” says Dr. Armin Wedel, head of division at
the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP in
Potsdam-Golm. The first curved screens were on display at this year’s
consumer electronics trade show (IFA) in Berlin. The technology behind
it all? OLEDs: flexible, organic, light-emitting diodes.
Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) – here at the bus stop of the future – will soon come out of printing machines. © Fraunhofer IAP / Till Budde |
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