OLED lighting

Ingo Mauer is now showing another beautiful white-light project, using OSRAM's white OLED panels.

The new "object" is called Flying Future,  and is using a bended metal mesh, with over 100 panels attached to it. The whole thing looks like a giant wave. The panels are still not 'commercial', but in a few years it's possible that OLEDs will be ready for white-light. Anyway OLEDs allow for exciting new designs...

I recently had the chance to interview Mr. Corey Hewitt and Dr. James Buntaine from Kodak OLED Systems. Kodak is where OLEDs were first discovered, and they are still in the fore-front of the technology. This is going to be a long article - these guys have given me a lot of background info, even before answering my questions. But first let's introduce Corey and James:

The companies behind the OLLA project (Philips, OSRAM, Siemens, Novaled and Franhofer IPMS) agreed to fund another OLED lighting project - the OLED100.eu, a follow-up project.

OLED Lighting Markets-2008 will analyze and forecast the rapidly emerging market for OLED lighting and will answer important questions such as which segments of the lighting market will see the first penetration of OLED lighting and when and what are the likely improvements that we will see in lifetimes, luminance and efficiency over the coming years. The report will provide a thorough examination of the OLED lighting business and include an analysis of the latest manufacturing techniques and developments on the OLED materials front as well as a detailed applications market analysis of mobile electronics backlighting the vast general illumination market and large outdoor signage displays. It will also include profiles of the major firms developing OLED lighting and the leading government funded R&D projects around the world that are helping to drive OLED lighting into the market place. Detailed forecasts in volume and value terms will also be included.

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors is spearheading the effort to develop cost-effective volume production methods for organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) under the CombOLED project, a European funded research and development project that was conceived to combine new device structures, advantageous manufacturing approaches and less complex materials with the aim to achieve cost effective OLED lighting solutions.

At their yearly share holder meeting, UDC reviewed their company's and the OLED industry's progress. UDC also highlights continued adoption of its energy-efficient PHOLED technology in commercial displays and advances in its flexible OLED, white OLED lighting, and printable, phosphorescent P(2)OLED(TM) technologies.