A new kind of copper OLED technology could scale up to inexpensively light entire rooms and homes for the first time……and do it cheaply and efficiently at the same time.
At the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in Switzerland, researchers have gained insights into a promising material for organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs. The substance enables high light yields and would be inexpensive to produce on a large scale.
Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology is economical and powerful for the production of flexible displays and innovative area lighting, and is already in smartphones and televisions.
The researchers-writing in the journal Nature Communications-have now made a more precise examination of the copper-containing compound CuPCP.
Their work confirmed that the substance is a good candidate for OLEDs due to its chemical structure, making it possible to achieve a high light yield.