Compared to regular blue OLED these converted white OLED last 30 times longer.
Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have come a long way since the first working device was reported three decades ago. Prized for their dark blacks, crisp image reproduction, and power efficiency, today’s OLEDs dominate the screens of Android phones and LG televisions. They may take over iPhones as early as next year.
And because OLEDs are cheap and easy to make, we ought to also use them to make white light for general illumination, says Konstantinos Daskalakis, a post-doctoral researcher at Aalto University in Finland.
Except white is an OLED’s Achilles’ heel. Typically, to get white light, individual red, green, and blue emitters shine at the same time. This makes white the most power-hungry color, reportedly requiring six times as much power as it takes to produce the color black on a Google Pixel. Other strategies to generate white light include carefully doping emitting layers with chemicals, but this approach makes it harder to fabricate devices.
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