OLED white lighting

RIOE shows what the future will look like with OLED lighting

oled — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:55:22 -0400

The Research Institute for Organic Electronics (RIOE) from Japan focuses on developing the world-leading technology to put the Organic EL lighting into practical use. They have put up a page showing what the future will look like with OLED lighting. There are several OLED 'lamp' prototypes shown, and a nice video with more examples.

They also suggest all sorts of new applications - light on your toothbrush handle, inside drawers, under the water faucet, alongside your stairs, and more.

Konica Minolta and UDC Announce OLED Technology License Agreement for Lighting Applications

oled — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:57:55 -0400

Konica Minolta and Universal Display Corporation today announced the signing of an OLED Technology License Agreement. Under the agreement, Konica Minolta will be able to integrate Universal Display’s proprietary OLED technologies into Konica Minolta’s white OLED lighting products, thus securing Konica Minolta to accelerate commercialization and to strengthen the competitiveness of its white OLEDs.

UDC Gives More Information about Their White-Light OLED Advances

oled — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:41:26 -0400

In June, Universal Display announced a major breakthrough in white OLED power efficacy, 102 lm/W, in an all-phosphorescent OLED device. UDC reported that this device also provides an operating lifetime of 8,000 hours to 50% of initial luminance (at 1000 nits and without enhanced optical outcoupling), an operating voltage of 3.5 volts, a pleasing white color with a color rendering index (CRI) of 70, and a color temperature of 3,900 Kelvin.

“The discovery and development of UniversalPHOLED phosphorescent OLED technology was a major breakthrough that has enabled the potential use of white OLEDs for solid-state lighting,” said Steven V. Abramson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Universal Display. “Using this technology, power-efficient, bright and thin white OLEDs reduce energy consumption, while remaining environmentally benign, especially compared to mercury-containing fluorescent lamps. White OLEDs also offer exciting new product design opportunities and an abundance of new product applications. Our continuing advances in phosphorescent and white OLED technologies are now significantly accelerating solid-state OLED lighting towards commercial reality.”

GE shows a glimpse into the future of lighting

oled — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:46:51 -0400

Check out this cool presentation video (3min) from GE. It's all about OLEDs, and how they may be used in the future for lighting. Not many technical details, it focuses more on possible applications, which are rather nice...

UDC Awarded $1.9 Million U.S. Department of Energy Contract to Accelerate Development of White OLED Lighting Products

oled — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:22:12 -0400

Universal Display Corporation today announced a $1,918,878, two-year U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) contract to develop a ceiling-based white OLED lighting system. Universal Display plans to use Armstrong World Industries as a key subcontractor to fulfill the requirements of the grant. Funded through the U.S. DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, this Solid-State Lighting (SSL) Program award supports the DOE’s long-term commitment to advance the development and market introduction of energy-efficient, solid-state white light sources for general illumination.

During this SSL Product Development Project, Universal Display and its subcontractor, Armstrong, will develop and deliver an integrated ceiling illumination system that is targeted to exceed the DOE’s 2010 performance goals. The white OLED lighting panels will be designed and fabricated by Universal Display using its high-efficiency phosphorescent OLED technology. The panels will then be integrated by Armstrong into its innovative TechZone™ open-architecture ceiling system. In addition, the team will deliver a white OLED lighting panel fabricated on a thin metallic foil substrate using Universal Display’s UniversalPHOLED and other OLED technologies, to demonstrate the commercial product potential of white OLEDs with a flexible form factor.

Researchers use a tandem system of grids and micro lenses on white OLED for efficiency

oled — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:13:59 -0400

White OLEDs are already producing more light per watt than incandescent bulbs, according to engineering professor Stephen Forrest from Michigen University, but it is trapped inside the device. By fabricating a tandem system of grids and micro lenses on a white OLED, the device can achieve a brightness of over 70 lumens per watt, compared with 15 lumens for incandescent bulbs--almost as much as fluorescent tube lights (90 lumens).

Another beautiful OLED-White-Light by Ingo Mauer

oled — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:59:45 -0400

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...

Kodak OLED Systems Information and Interview

oled — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:17:11 -0400

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:

OLED100.eu - a new EU OLED white light project to follow-up on OLLA, gets 30M$ funding

oled — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:55:34 -0400

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.

NanoMarkets Announces Upcoming Report on OLED Lighting Materials Markets

oled — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:18:39 -0400

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.