Sony&squot;s XEL-1 11" OLED TV looked great, but was very expensive.

Just a few months ago we discussed how awesome it would be if OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) displays came to more consumer electronics but why we probably wouldn't see them soon. The short of it? OLED is brighter, has deeper blacks, better contrast, and lower power consumption. But it's far too expensive to end up in anything but portable devices. cheap and efficient stacked component design for OLEDs. An accomplishment that could land you a totally sweet TV or vibrant laptop display . Here's how the next tech works. traditional OLED designs , cathode and anode layers sandwich transport layers with an emitting layer in the center. When a voltage is applied, a current passes between the cathode and anode, creating negative and positive electrons. These travel through the transport layers which are either given or lose chargers and are recombined in a thin layer of emissive molecules. When they recombine, they emit a photon which is emitted out of the glass or plastic layer of your screen. High Current, Low Voltage Carbon Nanotube Enabled Vertical Organic Field Effect Transistors " technology Rinzler and company are working on solves the most immediate issue in OLED manufacturing: passing electrons through conventional organic transistors is too slow to produce an adequate refresh rate. The solution thus far—shrink the distance the electrons must travel—illustrates why OLED displays are generally found in small devices. Using carbon nanotubes, Rinzler has discovered a way to accomplish an engineering dream over 15 years old: stack efficient transistors so that voltage can be passed up and down instead of across. The process is cheaper and more efficient and consumers should be the recipients of the benefits.So if you've been dying for an ultra-thin OLED TV that won't cost you your life savings, keep your fingers crossed for UF's physics and engineering departments.