Re:MicroLEDs Moving from Lab to Fab
by HeyLaughingBoy on Saturday July 24, 2021 @10:16AM
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I remember standing the lobby at work watching the company's stock performance displayed on a Sony plasma TV and thinking "that TV cost $12,000 and that's what they're doing with it."
Now that seems so long ago...
Yes, I remember when OLED:s were far off future technology for mass consumption. I think the first OLED display I saw was a tiny Sony PAL TV that probably cost an arm and leg back then. The analyst consensus back then was that OLEDs are too hard/expensive/etc for generic consumers.
> I am old enough to remember...
It was like 8 years ago!
No, it was much longer ago, especially for pre-RGB applications. OLEDs came about in the late 80's, and mono displays started showing up in the 90s (I think one of my early flip phones had an OLED exterior display). RGB units were demonstrated around 2000 and commercialized in limited uses in the very early 2000's.
I was extremely excited when I got my hands on a 2 line character single color OLED display many years ago. That a phone would ever have an OLED color display was a far off fantasy.
I am sure we will see uLED at some point, it just takes time and a lot of research.