
OLED light bulbs, OLED lighting
11/14/2008
OLEDs are very power efficient and they can be made very thin. An OLED light bulb is actually a thin film of material that emits bright white light. Because OLEDs can be flexible, or even transparent, exciting new OLED lamp designs are possible. The most green light sourceNot only are OLEDs super efficient, but these 'lamps' do not contain any 'bad' metals such as mercury, which is present in efficient CFL lamps. So OLEDs are really the future lighting source, when all things are considered.The world's first OLED lamp
Philips OLED panelsPhilips are currently the leading company with regards to OLED lights. They will start shipping OLED samples panels (which can be ordered online). Check out our first OLED light review of a couple of panels they sent us. They have plans for commercial products by 2010. Philips think that transparent and color-tunable OLEDs will be here within 3-5 years. Flexible ones? a bit longer, might take 5-8 years. OLED light statusSeveral companies are working towards white OLED light products. GE is hoping to get products out by 2010, and OSRAM is planning products for 2011-12, even though, like we said, they already introduced their first OLED lamp.
Here's a nice chart by DisplaySearch, showing the leading companies and their annonced OLED lighting plans:
The EU is funding several OLED lighting projects, while in Japan a few companies have joined forces to create Lumiotec - a JV to study the possibilities of OLED light bulbs. Samsung mobile displays, a leader in AMOLED displays, has decided to start making OLED lighting panels, joining the race in June 2009. Latest stories about oled for Lighting:GE to start printing OLED light panels next year07/03/2009
GE are also thinking about possible new designs, and have released this video a month ago, which includes several flexible OLED light designs by art students, including wearable OLEDs for emergency safety gear, illuminated stairs, walls and signs in stores and a nice "wall peel" OLED lamp: A new Japanese company formed to work on white OLED technology07/01/2009Junji Kido, a professor from the Yamagata University in Japan has formed a new company, called Organic Lighting, to work on white OLEDs. The company's capital is only about 130,000$ currently, and it was setup in the Yamagata Universit'yes Venture Business Laboratory. Organic Lighting plans to have equipment on the market by the beginning of 2010. It will not have its own factory. They also have plans for OLED emergency lights for public places. They hope to reach several tens of millions of US$ in revenue by 2014. Professor Junji Kido is the inventor of the first white OLED. Via iStockAnalyst Introduction to Quantum Dots, interview with QD Vision's CTO06/25/2009
Seth received his Ph.D in electrical engineering from MIT in 2005, writing a thesis on incorporating quantum dots in hybrid organic/inorganic LED structure. That's the technology basis of QD Vision. Seth was chosen as one of the top young entrepreneurs under the age of 30 by BusinessWeek. QD Vision is a quantum-dot product company that delivers highly differentiated lighting solutions to major industries where color, power and design matter - these include lighting, displays, signage and defense. QD Vision’s Quantum Light™ platform enables step-change advances over other display and lighting solutions such as LCDs, plasma displays, LEDs and even organic LEDs (OLEDs). QD Vision is privately held, based in MA, US, and has several first-tier patents originating at MIT.
Q: Hello Seth, and thanks for agreeing to do this interview. Can you explain your technology? What exactly *are* quantum dots? Samsung joins OLED lighting race, shows prototypes06/14/2009It turns out that Samsung (SMD) have started to develop OLED lighting modules. They have already shown a prototype at SID. SMD showed two 200mmx200mm panels, and seven smaller panels (150mmx50mm). This is interesting, as Samsung are the leaders in AMOLED displays, and they will face a tough battle in OLED lighting from companies such as OSRAM, GE, Philips and others... Via OLEDNet Kodak OLED lighting video06/02/2009Kodak has kindly sent us a new video showing their new OLED lighting panels (preceded by some Kodak 'ads'). Kodak are still working on the technical issues of their OLEDs, but they are also seeking potential collaboration with other companies to bring these to market. Just a few days ago Kodak received a 1.7M$ project from the US Department of Energy to develop OLED lighting - 15cmx15cm panels with over 50lm/W efficiency and over 20,000h lifetime. |