Samsung OLED TV
OLED is short for Organic Light Emitting Diode.
Organic in OLED is a refference to organic material, carbon. All organic matter is based on carbon.
The part with the Light Emitting Diode describes how the electric energy converts into light.
Basically, an OLED is a LED in which the electroluminescent layer is a film of organic compounds.
There are two types of OLED: small molecule OLED and polymer OLED. The first molecule type has a longer lifespan.
OLED displays can use either passive-matrix PMOLED or active-matrix addressing schemes, AMOLED.
OLED technology is used in computer monitors, television screens, mobile phones and PDAs, watches, advertising, for general space illumination.
An OLED display functions without a backlight. Thanks to its liquid crystal displays, an OLED screen can, for example in dark room, achieve a higher contrast ratio than an LCD.
For its applications, the OLED technology has some important advantages such as the following: low cost production; thin, flat and lightweight; flexibility of displays; low voltage and fast switching technology; high efficiency and large area sources; form freedom and tunable emission; high brightness and wide viewing angle.
One of the leaders in OLED screens research and production is Samsung. The company predicts that by 2015 this technology could become the main TV panel technology next thing. In the same time, by 2014 people around the world could use mostly the AMOLED displays within their mobiles.
You may be courious to know that the world's first OLED TV was created in October 2007 by the Sony Company and it was called XEL-1 TV. Its screen was thin, efficient and bright.