Samsung AMOLED displays will feature in notebooks of the future

They are brighter, more power efficient, have higher contrast levels, thin and light in weight

Samsung's AMOLED display is far superior than most LCD's

Samsung, giant in the field of LCD manufacturing showcased a netbook with a 7 inch AMOLED display at FPD exhibition in Japan with a resolution of 1024x600 pixels and 16:9 aspect ratio having brightness of 300 cd/m2 and a 1.000.000:1 contrast ratio. This 7 inch AMOLED display device looks very impressive. Samsung also showed a hybrid desktop notebook with a 14 inch AMOLED Display with a display resolution of 1366x768 pixel and the display 2.7 mm thick being only .

AMOLED basically stands for Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode which has got some features which make today's netbook designs look stone age by comparison. This technology can be used as a high quality alternative to the LCD screens found in most notebooks and monitors today. OLEDs are also present but AMOLED is much more power efficient and can be used in portable devices like netbooks.

AMOLED screens have four separate layers, an anode layer, middle organic layer, cathode layer and a bottom layer containing circuitary to control the picture. This circuit provides voltage to the cathode and anode materials, exciting the organic layer between anode and cathode layer. AMOLED pixels switches on and off nearly three times faster as compared to the speed of usual motion picture film making these display suitable for fluid, full motion video.

AMOLED doesn’t require back lighting which makes it very thin and light in weight. This property also makes it very power efficient as compared to an LCD. AMOLEDs are much brighter, have better contrast levels when viewed even from oblique angles which makes it more superior to an LCD as LCDs fade when viewed from oblique angles. The contrast of an AMOLED is excellent as it provides crystal clear images and pictures in any environment.

AMOLEDs are perfect for laptops and are at present used in some high-end digital cameras and mobile phones. Only drawback with this display is that it is very costly when used for large display having display size of 12inch and more. Samsung is expecting that the price of this new technology will fall to comparable rates of today’s LCD by 2010.

So we can hope that in the coming year’s Samsung’s latest AMOLED display technology will make Apple's MacBook Air look very heavy, but this all depends on how cost effective these products will be.