MAQ Magazine n. 14 / September 2019
Now, a team of Imperial scientists from the Departments of Physics and Chemistry have developed a new type of OLED that avoids this shortcoming.
The team, including Dr. Jess Wade, Li Wan, Professor Matthew Fuchter and Professor Alasdair Campbell, published their results in the journal ACS Nano.
"Our study suggests, for the first time, that by changing our OLED recipe we can generate efficient polarising OLEDs. The findings could make screens of all kinds brighter, with better contrast and longer life"
While their study was focused on OLEDs for displays, the team note that the materials and approaches they have developed could have further applications elsewhere. The polarised light generated by their materials has potential applications in the storage, transmission and encryption of information and so could be useful in computing and the data revolution.
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