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Kodak, a company that boasts 50% improvement year over year in OLED efficiency, has done it again. OLED or Organic Light Emitting Diodes were originally designed to provide better color and lower battery consumption. Kodak has just implemented a green dopant technology into their OLED displays. This technology controls color output and power efficiency more effectively. EK-GD403 is the name of the new material infused with green dopant technology. According to DisplaySearch a company formed by NPD the OLED display market will grow to more than $17 Billion by 2015. Early this year Frost & Sullivan presented Kodak with an award for pioneering OLED technology. OLED's currently deliver a 180 degree viewing angle, with faster response times, better contrast, and blur-free video in a very small flat package.

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OLED or Organic Light Emitting Diodes get the ability to be controlled by touch. Touch screens normally have an extra layer on top of the screen to detect the touch to the scree, but the new OLED touch technology engineered by Fraunhofer IPMS does not require the touch layer. The OLED screen can actually read the touch and pass the information on the rest of the device. Currently they are implimenting this technology to turn lights on by touch. They did not specify whether the new screens could be used for mobile device touch screens.

The worlds newest display breakthrough promises to use 1/10th the power consumption and last 60,000 hours of continuous operation. The new display developed by TMD and Idemitsu Kosan is a small molecule organic electroluminescent display. The companies claim to have reached the highest level of performance possible in a 2.2" QVGA display. This display is well suited for cell phones and small media devices. The companies have been colaborating for 3 years now, and in light of recent developments have decided to move on to creating slightly bigger displays for other mobile products. Production of the current displays are expected to begin next year, with production ramped up to 1.5 Million displays per month.

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