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Kodak has been a pioneer in the OLED field, and has just announced another breakthrough. The new material will enable full color displays that are more energy efficient and longer lifespans. Dubbed Kodak OLED Material EK-GD403, it uses green dopant technology to control the color output and increase efficiency.

When EK-GD403 is combined with other Kodak OLED materials, it can produce low-voltage green OLEDs with high efficiency and lifetime in excess of 65,000 hours. The luminance efficiency is 31 cd/A, and Kodak has been working to increase this number by over 50 percent every year.

Just two months ago, Kodak released the world’s first wireless picture frame using an OLED display. The display is even capable of automatically adjusting the brightness based on surrounding light. OLEDs are starting to become more widespread with advances such as flexible displays.

[Digital Trends]

Flexible OLEDs are not a new concept, but they are still heavily in development. Sony and the Max Plank Institute demonstrated a new transparent, flexible OLED display. They were able to overcome the previous problems such as size and distortion when folded by using a special combination of organic compounds in a viscous polymer matrix.

KDDI debuted a 3.1 inch WVGA OLED display made by Samsung at CEATEC. They also showed a panel which can convert 2D images to 3D in real time using a special parallax barrier method. There is no word yet when KDDI when release these, although it should be soon.

[TechRadar and Engadget]