Joe Analssandrini wrote:

Dear Bruce (any everyone else here),

Within the last two months General Electric and Konica Minolta have
signed a strategic alliance agreement to develop and commercialize
Organic-Light-Emitting-Diode (OLED) devices for home and industrial
lighting applications. It is their intent to have these devices on the
market within three years! OLEDs can be fabricated in sheet form which
is flexible (imagine THAT!), thin, and lightweight. This form of
lighting may eventually be incorporated into walls or ceilings,
eliminating the need for separate light fixtures (table lamps, and so
forth). Color temperature can be anything desired! They've got it NOW;
they must develop inexpensive manufacturing techniques for it to
become commercially viable.

Obviously those two companies are quite confident in their ability to
do so.

And of course the OLED's energy usage is but a small fraction of what
is used in todays bulbs.

Best,

Joe


Last I knew, a problem with OLEDs was a limited lifespan compared with
regular LEDs.