Researchers in Georgia have created a new way to produce better films using atomic layer deposition that will safeguard your phone's high-tech organic light-emitting diode displayevery whiff of oxygen or molecule of water vapor.
Existing methods for manufacturing these high-performance barriers aren't perfect . Due to the way they're made, they often have small defects, resulting in tiny holes that let in water or oxygen.
Samuel Graham and his colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created new barrier films that can protect electronics in very harsh environments — when submerged in salt water for months, for example. Graham said that by creating such barrier films, we are able to extend the lifetime and reliability of electronic devices.