
OLED projectsOLEDs is a complex technology - and an expensive one to research and develop. Because of this, there are several joint-venture OLED project - researching OLED displays and lighting. We provide here a comprehensive list of all projects related to OLEDs. TOPAS projectThe TOPAS (Thousand Lumen Organic Phosphorescent devices for Applications in lighting Systems) research project is focused on developing innovative material and component architectures and well as new production machines for lighting solutions with highly efficient OLEDs. Within the project group OSRAM Opto Semiconductors is focusing on a transparent OLED solution with an area of 1 square meter. Philips is concentrating on developing particularly bright monolithic OLED systems with 1000 Lumen, and AIXTRON is working on production equipment with high-grade deposition concepts based on its OVPD The project is funded by the Germany Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). with OSRAM, BASF, Philips and Aixtron all working together. In October 2009, OSRAM displayed a large transparent OLED (17x17 cm2, with a 210cm2 luminous area), which is only a few hundred micrometers thick. The samples have been developed as part of the TOPAS project. Project duration:
2012 - 2014
LILi project
The total cost of the project is about 7.5 million euros (just over $11 million). Almost half is provided by the German government, and the rest by the companies themselves. Project duration:
2009 - 2011
One-PONE-P (Organic Nanomaterials for Electronics and Photonics: Design, Synthesis, Characterisation, Processing, Fabrication and Applications) is a collaboration of 28 organizations, funded mostly by the EU Commission 7th framework programme (18M euro out of 26M). The project has several objectives in the area of organic semiconductors. One of them is the development of a new generation of light emitter materials for OLED architectures and light-emitting field-effects transistors. Project duration:
2009 - 2012
NEMONEMO (NEw Materials for OLEDs) is an EU project focusing on new emitting systems based on soluble small molecules with long lifetime and efficiency. NEMO is led be four companies (coordinated by Merck) and seven research and academic institutions (including the Fraunhofer institute). The project is scheduled to last for 2.5 years, and is funded by the German government with 32 million euros. The project will use a multi-layer OLED architecture: glass coating with indium stannic oxide as charge carrier injection layer. Here's more information over at Merck's site Project duration:
2009 - 2012
So-LightSo-Light is a German project that aims to develop OLED displays and lighting applications - including new materials (transport materials, redox dopants, triplet-emitters, matrix materials), new optical technologies for guided light distribution, characterizing lighting application aspects of OLEDs and process technologies for Small Molecule OLEDs. So-Light will also generate studies on applications and demonstrators, and will also work on integrating technologies for application areas such as automotive, architecture and backlight units for large displays). The project's cost is 14.7 Million Euro, and is supported by the German BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research). So-Light project partners are: Novaled AG (Dresden), Sensient Imaging Technologies GmbH (Bitterfeld-Wolfen), Fraunhofer IPMS (Dresden), LEDON OLED Lighting GmbH & Co. KG (Dresden), Aixtron AG (Aachen), Fresnel Optics GmbH (Apolda), Hella KGaA Hueck & Co (Lippstadt), Siteco Beleuchtungstechnik GmbH (Traunreut), AEG-MIS mbH (Ulm), Universität Paderborn/L-LAB (Paderborn) and the Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster (Münster). Project duration:
2009 - 2012
iStar project
Project duration:
2008 - 2011
CombOLED
CombOLED has recently shown a transparent, white OLED prototype (5x5 cm2). CombOLED also sponsored an OLED lighting design contest. Project duration:
2008 - 2011
OLED100.eu
The main objectives of OLED100.eu are:
In January 2009, OLED100.eu released an interesting video explaining the project. In July 2009, we have interviewed the project's manager. Project duration:
2008 - 2011
Fast2Light
All layers that are part of a large area lighting foil will be addressed starting with the substrate choice, and introducing high-throughput deposition and patterning methods for all of the materials necessary to fabricate the final lighting foil. Ultimately, the project will demonstrate a 30cm x 30cm, high quality lighting foil, manufactured with new optimised, disruptive R2R processes. While the project will focus on polymers, the platforms developed will be fully compatible with SMOLEDs. In April 2008, we interviewed the Project's manager, Mary Kilitziraki. Project duration:
2008
HYPOLED project
Hypoled's targets:
In October 2009, HYPOLED released some intermediate results. Project duration:
2008 - 2009
Project TOPLESS (Thin Organic Polymeric Light Emitting Semi-conductor Surfaces)Project TOPLESS (Thin Organic Polymeric Light Emitting Semi-conductor Surfaces) is a three year £3.3M project, sponsored by the UK government (50%). It comprises a consortium of Thorn Lighting (UK largest lighting company), Sumation UK and the University of Durham (Department of Physics and Chemistry). The aim of the project is to product a high quality white light generating single polymer, and efficient large area single pixel device architectures.
TOPLESS objectives:
TOPLESS will run till February 2010. In June 2008 we interviewed Dr. Geoff Williams, the project manager. In December 2008, TOPLESS showed a prototype lamp. The efficiency is about 17Lm/W (as there is no out-coupling. With out-coupling the efficiency is over 30Lm/W), each panel operating at 3W. The panels are just 0.7mm thick, made by Sumation with TOPLESS materials Project duration:
2008 - 2010
Aeviom (Advanced Experimentally Validated OLED model)
Project duration:
2008 - 2011
Modecom
This research will also aid the understanding of solar cells. Solar cells, or photovoltaics, convert light to electricity and are used to power many devices, from calculators to satellites. Other areas being studied by Modecom are the polymer materials used in plastic electronics and sensors in applications such as electronic paper and intelligent labels on groceries. Modecom is funded by the European Union Framework 6.
Project duration:
2006 - 2009
OPAL 2008OPAL (Organic Phosphorescent lights for Applications in the Lighting market) 2008 is a project that aims to develop OLED production technology capable of achieving a target cost of a few Euro cent per cm² for a high performance white OLED device, with the ultimate goal of introducing the new lighting technology into the market. The project used Aixtron's Organic Vapor Phase Deposition (OVPD) technology platform. Other companies involved are Osram, Philips, BASF and Applied Materials. Project duration:
2006 - 2008
OLLA project
At the end of the project (June 2008), the OLLA consortium presents its final milestone: the basic technology for a white OLED light source, with an efficacy of 50.7 lumens per watt at an initial brightness of 1.000 cd/m² based on the Novaled PIN OLED technology. OLED100.eu is OLLA's follow up project, started in 2008. Project duration:
2004 - 2008
ROLLED project
The OLED element developed under the ROLLED project is made from organic materials and is encapsulated in a moisture barrier film. The element is 200-250 micrometers thick, the equivalent to three or four sheets of paper. The project was finished in 2008. Project duration:
2004 - 2008
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