World’s first large-scale spherical OLED screen to be unveiled June 11
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it has installed a six-meter organic light-emitting display (OLED) globe at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, Japan. The OLED “Geo-Cosmos” display will be unveiled at the museum as the world’s first large-scale spherical OLED screen on June 11.
Hanging 18 meters from the floor, the globe is an aluminum sphere covered with 10,362 OLED panels, each measuring 96 x 96 millimeters. Mitsubishi Electric used its scalable OLED technologies to create the globe, which replaces a globe comprising light emitting diodes (LEDs) to commemorate the museum’s 10th anniversary. The globe will display scenes of clouds and other visions of the earth taken from a meteorological satellite. Projections will feature resolution of more than 10 million pixels, about 10 times greater than that of the LED display.
In addition to Mitsubishi Electric, which created the OLED system, three other companies helped to make the OLED Geo-Cosmos display: Dentsu Inc. undertook project planning, Go and Partners, Inc. developed the image-processing and transmission system, and GK Tech Inc. created the spheroid design.
Going forward, Mitsubishi Electric will continue to expand OLED screen sales by leveraging its scalable OLED technologies enabling all types of non-linear display applications.
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With 90 years of experience in providing reliable, high-quality products to both corporate clients and general
consumers all over the world, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) is a recognized world leader
in the manufacture, marketing and sales of electrical and electronic equipment used in information
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industrial technology, energy, transportation and building equipment. The company recorded consolidated
group sales of 3,645.3 billion yen (US$ 43.9 billion*) in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2011. For more
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*At an exchange rate of 83 yen to the US dollar, the rate given by the Tokyo Foreign Exchange Market on
March 31, 2011
Source: Mitsubishi Electric
