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> The company gave a don’t-blink-or-you-might-miss-it peek at what it says will be the world’s first commercial MicroLED display, available sometime this year.
by seanalltogether 9y ago
> The company gave a don’t-blink-or-you-might-miss-it peek at what it says will be the world’s first commercial MicroLED display, available sometime this year. MicroLED technology operates like the Jumbo Tron in a football stadium, with a dedicated LED for each colored subpixel—shrunk down to the size of a standard TV, that is, with subpixels so small your eye can’t distinguish them. It doesn’t require filters or backlights, so color and brightness can be exceptional.
Isn't that what OLED is?
- papercrane 9y agoThe big difference between them is chemistry. MicroLEDs are using inorganic semiconductors, which are supposed to give it better lifetime performance.
- Doxin 9y agoCould you explain to me what, in the context of display technology, organic even means? Presumably oLED displays don't contain organisms.
- detaro 9y agoSame as in "organic chemistry": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_chemistry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_chemistry Roughly: Primarily carbon or carbon-hydrogen-based, often complex, molecules. If not naturally occurring in organisms, then made from the same "toolbox". (The liquid crystals in LCDs generally are organic compounds as well, but traditional LEDs are not, thus the OLED distinction in that case)