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Published online 12 April 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060410-8
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Let there be light
Organic LEDs use fluorescence to pump up efficiency.
The traditional light bulb's days could be numbered, according to scientists who have taken an important step towards making white organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) commercially viable.
They expect that, for the wealthy at least, it could be just a few years before rooms are lit by gently glowing thin panels.
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