University of Michigan produces material to decrease OLED manufacturing cost

Researchers working in the University of Michigan may have just come up with a material that can drastically reduce the cost of manufacturing OLED lighting devices and displays.

Phosphors, the name of this new luminous material definitely have a great chance of improving the current lighting devices and OLEDs. At this moment, the use of OLED has been limited to low powered and bright panels used in small screens of camera and mobile phones.

The current cost of production and manufacturing issues don’t make OLED a viable choice for larger panels. The present OLED are not totally organic and the organic material used now must be spiked with metals for them to glow.

As per Jin-Sang Kim, a researcher at the University of Michigan, they are just at the beginning phase but they expect that this material can soon be released to the manufacturers so as to enable them to produce OLED displays and lighting devices for the consumers.