Get ready to squint! World's smallest pixel is just 300 nm

Micro-OLED displays with 1080p (1920x1080) resolution have been around for a few years now, but a group of German researchers has taken things to the next level. They've engineered an OLED pixel so small that an entire 1080p display could fit into a single square millimeter, potentially changing the game for wearable displays …

[Anonymous Coward]

hydrogen silsesquioxane

Gesundheit

[Just A Quick Comment]

Re: hydrogen silsesquioxane

Someone's got to say it...

"Now that's something not to be sneezed at."

I'll get my coat...

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: hydrogen silsesquioxane

That's easy for you to say

[ravenviz]

Re: hydrogen silsesquioxane

#ericmorecambe

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: hydrogen silsesquioxane

Sadly the reg lacks a "lifted-spectacles" icon

[STOP_FORTH]

Re: hydrogen silsesquioxane

Or a paper bag.

[Pascal Monett]

Re: hydrogen silsesquioxane

I want to see Trump try to pronounce that.

[Phil Ni'Sophical]

Re: hydrogen silsesquioxane

And here was me thinking it was a quote from Hermione Granger!

[Eclectic Man]

Re: hydrogen silsesquioxane

I foolishly looked this up on something called The Internet :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_silsesquioxane

"Hydrogen silsesquioxane(s) (HSQ, H-SiO_x, T^H_n, H-resin) are inorganic compounds with the empirical formula [HSiO_3/2]_n. "

there is a nice image of the standard molecule.

[bill 27]

Re: hydrogen silsesquioxane

I think it's considered immoral to utter that in mixed company.

[Steve Foster]

Eye of a Needle artwork

So does this make the guy producing those extreme miniature replicas of famous paintings (sunflowers, the scream, and others) redundant? Pop a little 1080p screen based on this tech in there and use a slideshow program?

[ravenviz]

Re: Eye of a Needle artwork

He’ll just make smaller ones out of Plancks.

[C R Mudgeon]

Re: Eye of a Needle artwork

He's constantly at it

[Richard 12]

Re: Eye of a Needle artwork

So far it isn't a pixel, it's an orange sub-pixel - you need at least three colours for a colour display pixel.

It also appears to run too hot to have many close together - they were only testing one emitter.

So far, anyway. The manufacturing technique seems reasonable, so the next steps will be more colours and improved efficacy.

Very exciting.

[DrXym]

Re: Eye of a Needle artwork

Who says it needs to be colour to be a pixel? Pixels - picture element - applies to monochromatic displays too. Some of the video terminals I used in university even had orange / amber displays.

[A Non e-mouse]

Re: Eye of a Needle artwork

Amber displays, in my time we had.....

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Eye of a Needle artwork

So it can do cat pictures, but only of orange cars?

That;'s still at least 50% of the internet

[Giles C]

Picture this

In a few years it won’t be were are my glasses, it will be where is my monitor.

Mind you if they could get the processing small enough it might work for partially sighted people by being able to position an image where the retina is still working to allow them to see better.

[anthonyhegedus]

Does the pave the way for an 87-inch screen with a resolution of 3,868,400 x 1,166,400, or 4.3 terapixels?

[jdiebdhidbsusbvwbsidnsoskebid]

I'm sure some telly manufacturer is cranking up the upscaling marketing guff as we speak.

[I am David Jones]

Recommended viewing distance, 4.2 mm

[Cliffwilliams44]

Orange light!

So, we will have 1980's style amber monochrome wearable screens!

How wonderful!

[PeterM42]

On no!

Back to the opticians for some new specs.