The hottest new gadgets and devices today continue to push consumer wants to new limits. This leads our technologists and scientists to innovate new technologies every day. It can be good and bad. Regardless, where there is a need there is a market for it. One of these technologies that is fresh on the consumer market is organic led lighting.
Light emitting diode is what the acronym LED stands for. Since the inventor of the first light bulb, Thomas Edison, we have continued to make bigger and greater things like the common LED. It has become a favorite of consumers and manufacturers alike. Incandescent lighting is becoming obsolete because they are not very efficient.
To produce the common white LED as we know it, scientists coat a thin layer of gallium nitride onto a diode. This combination, when conducting electricity, will generate the white light people are used to. Not much of the gallium mixture is needed to make this happen.
A diode is something called a semiconductor. It only allows electricity to flow in one direction. The electrons cannot flow in two directions, just the one. This means that if an alternating current is passed through the diode, this same current will be turned into direct current by the LED.
This is how the traditional LED works. Knowing this will allow for better comprehension of any explanations of how the OLED functions and why it is better. It is better because it does not waste energy on the production of heat. This makes it more highly efficient than a regular light emitting diode. Even the old fashioned diodes generate heat, it is still efficient in its operation.
Using organic lights is better in almost every aspect. They are highly flexible and more compact. This allows for lighting film to be placed on thin pieces of plastic material. There is an organic substrate which is spread thinly onto a layer of glass material usually. This allows for the flow of electrons over the surface of the material and produces an efficient light source.
Even though it sounds great, there is one small drawback to this technology. It is expensive to produce the materials necessary to make these delicate devices. Very complex and high cost machines are needed to make sure the manufacturing process can go smoothly. The reason for this is that dust is an issue and if just a small particle went somewhere it was not supposed to, the flaw would be visible in the finished product.
Nontheless, OLEDs are going to be in our future on a mainstream level. As the days go by, more research is being done and reduces the costs. Innovators and scientists are always coming to new findings. The technology is going to be part of the life of the average person.
In the future, people will wake up to their morning newspaper. The only difference is that it will be an electronic paper that changes into a computer on demand. Instead of flipping switches on, we will activate entire walls of light. It is no doubt all of this technology will be mainstream. Waiting for it to happen is all that needs be done.
Light emitting diode is what the acronym LED stands for. Since the inventor of the first light bulb, Thomas Edison, we have continued to make bigger and greater things like the common LED. It has become a favorite of consumers and manufacturers alike. Incandescent lighting is becoming obsolete because they are not very efficient.
To produce the common white LED as we know it, scientists coat a thin layer of gallium nitride onto a diode. This combination, when conducting electricity, will generate the white light people are used to. Not much of the gallium mixture is needed to make this happen.
A diode is something called a semiconductor. It only allows electricity to flow in one direction. The electrons cannot flow in two directions, just the one. This means that if an alternating current is passed through the diode, this same current will be turned into direct current by the LED.
This is how the traditional LED works. Knowing this will allow for better comprehension of any explanations of how the OLED functions and why it is better. It is better because it does not waste energy on the production of heat. This makes it more highly efficient than a regular light emitting diode. Even the old fashioned diodes generate heat, it is still efficient in its operation.
Using organic lights is better in almost every aspect. They are highly flexible and more compact. This allows for lighting film to be placed on thin pieces of plastic material. There is an organic substrate which is spread thinly onto a layer of glass material usually. This allows for the flow of electrons over the surface of the material and produces an efficient light source.
Even though it sounds great, there is one small drawback to this technology. It is expensive to produce the materials necessary to make these delicate devices. Very complex and high cost machines are needed to make sure the manufacturing process can go smoothly. The reason for this is that dust is an issue and if just a small particle went somewhere it was not supposed to, the flaw would be visible in the finished product.
Nontheless, OLEDs are going to be in our future on a mainstream level. As the days go by, more research is being done and reduces the costs. Innovators and scientists are always coming to new findings. The technology is going to be part of the life of the average person.
In the future, people will wake up to their morning newspaper. The only difference is that it will be an electronic paper that changes into a computer on demand. Instead of flipping switches on, we will activate entire walls of light. It is no doubt all of this technology will be mainstream. Waiting for it to happen is all that needs be done.
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