Skip to 10:40 if you just want to see how they were made.

Contents:
0:00 Intro
1:29 First OLED: Tang and van Slyke
2:56 Polymer LEDs
4:25 Principle of the AlQ3 OLED
10:40 Let's make some OLEDs!
11:00 3D-printer photolithography
13:30 Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD)
15:52 Device operation
16:57 Black spot formation/degradation
18:50 Hermetic encapsulation

All technical details described in this video can currently be found in the public domain.

Video on the inventors of the OLED:
"Pioneers of OLED: The Ching Wan Tang and Steven Van Slyke Story"
   • Pioneers of OLED: The Ching Wan Tang ...  

The original paper by Tang and van Slyke can be downloaded for $35 from:
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.....
I did not do this, so I hope my memory served me well...

Other sources used (fair use policy assumed):
Photo flexible OLED-display: pi-scale.eu
Photo plasma display: "History of the Plasma Display Panel" by Larry F Weber,
Photo Atari Lynx: boards.dingoonity.org/retro-gaming/atari-lynx-lcd-mod-by-mcwill/
Photo PVD: https://www.tekniker.es/en/pvd
Did I forget anyone / objections? Please let me know and I'll set it straight.

ITO substrates can be bought from many different suppliers on Ebay.com, with widely varying prices. I bought mine (5 pieces) from seller "yaolihong2013" (no affiliation) because the same shop also sells Ytterbium.

The AlQ3 and TPD were both bought from TCI-chemicals (no affiliation).

The 3D-printer used for the photoresist exposures was a Phrozen Sonic Mini 4K. Avoid the new update (1.9) of the Chitubox-software supplied with this printer because it does not work properly. Version 1.8 or earlier does works correctly.

Photoresist used : AZ 4533 supplied by Microchemicals (no affiliation)

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