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MIT Professor explains OLEDs using a pickle [video]

• cgherb911 17y ago
  great post
• thristian 17y ago
  After following a lot of "via" links, it seems the original post is here: http://techtv.mit.edu/genres/19-engineering/videos/3175-vladimir-bulovic-on-oled-displays http://techtv.mit.edu/genres/19-engineering/videos/3175-vlad...
• KevBurnsJr 17y ago
  1.7 mega-pickles
• kalid 17y ago
  This is a wonderful example of how to demo an idea to the public. Yes, yes, it's cool that it's 100x thinner than our hair and twice as energy efficient, but seeing a pickle glow just makes the video pop out.
• joe_bleau 17y ago
  Here's the original pickle experiment, as documented in the DEC Western Research Lab publication: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/WRL-TN-13.pdf http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/WRL-TN-13.pdf Worth a quick read. No mention of the short lifespan of current OLEDs, either.
  • kpreid 17y ago
    That paper claims that the light is due to an arc, and involves vaporizing the liquid in the pickle. Presumably this is not true of OLEDs. Who's right?