Manufacturing Industry

ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE.(new technology from Eastman Kodak)

Industry Week, December, 2000 by TERESKO, JOHN

A NEW DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY FROM EASTMAN KODAK CO. REWRITES PERFORMANCE AND COST ATTRIBUTES OF FLAT PANELS.

THE TIME: AN EARLY EVENING IN the late 1980s. The place: an R&D lab at Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester. A researcher retrieving car keys in an unlit room unexpectedly sees a glass substrate glowing. By forgetting to power down an experiment, a Kodak technician inadvertently has created a watershed moment in flat-panel display technology.

"Organic light-emitting materials were being studied in that lab, both in terms of photon emission and in the translation of photons to electrons--as in a solar cell," explains James C. Stoffel, chief technical officer, director of R&D, and senior vice president at Kodak. He says the glowing substrate and the curiosity...

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