OLED-Info

OLED-Info was upgraded today (if anyone is interested, we upgraded to Drupal 6.x from 5.8). Most of the changes are infrastructure related so you won't notice much, but hopefully the site should be faster now, more stable and more secure.

If you do find any bugs, glitches or you have any comments, please let us know!

If you have an Amazon Kindle e-reader, then you'd be happy to know that you can now read OLED-Info directly on your Kindle. The service costs $0.99 a month.

Amazon's Kindle is a wireless e-book reader that has a free 3G connection in the US. It's got a 6" E Ink display, 2Gb of memory, and it's  available now for 259$. The Kindle DX is bigger (with a 9.7" display) and costs 489$.

Okay, this is not OLED related... but our sister-site PicoProjector-Info.com is running a new twitter giveaway in which you can win a new 3M MPro-120 pico projector (640x480, 12 lumens, up to 50" images).

All you have to do is follow on twitter and send a short message about the giveaway. More details here.

Back in October, NanoMarkets hosted a webinar on OLED lighting. It presented the firm's latest forecasts and insights into how OLEDs are emerging in the backlighting and general illumination market. The webinar is a great way to quickly get updated on OLED Lighting...

The Webinar is now available on CD, for 249$. OLED-Info users get a 50$ discount - simply use the following referral code when you buy it online: OLEDWEB. Here's the link to buy.

Nanomarkets have also released the first chapter for their OLED Lighting report (called "An Opportunity Analysis for OLED Lighting: 2009 to 2016". OLED-Info readers can get a 5% discount on this report, too, using the referral code OLEDINFO). You can download the chapter here (PDF).

We have teamed up with the OLED Association to offer our OLED news feed on the OLED-A web site. OLED-A site visitors can now get the latest OLED news, as soon as it is posted here on OLED-Info.

I think that's a great cooperation. If you have an OLED related site, and want to get our OLED news feed as well, we'll be happy to do it, just contact us for details.

The OLED-Lighting design conference is the world's first (and only) OLED lighting design conference. It will take place in December 2nd in Boston. The event organize, OLED Insider say they gained backing from the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD), The Professional Lighting Designers' Association and The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) for the two-day conference.

Highlights of the event include discussion about design capabilities and new challenges that OLED lighting presents, how can one use OLEDs capabilities and attractive price point to win over new customers and tap into new markets for lighting design, and the efficacy of OLEDs. The Summit will also provide an exclusive insight into how OLED technology will add value to many types of light installations and broaden design capabilities through improved colour range, viewing angles etc.

A few weeks ago, the CombOLED project (together with CEA-LETI, a French research laboratory) has announced a new efficient transparent white OLED. They have sent us a short video clip now of this display:

This is a Small-Molecule OLED, with a 5x5 cm2 active emitting area, which is deposited using thermal evaporation and encapsulated using ultra-thin layers. It's about 65%-70% transparent. More information on this panel can be found here.

Hopefully we'll be able to bring more information from CombOLED soon.