Electronics · Recorded milestone
Organic LEDs and semiconductors
Recorded year1987
Kodak's Tang and Van Slyke make an efficient thin-film organic LED, opening thin, bendable electronics made from carbon-based films.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.