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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...

Interview with Mary Kilitziraki, Fast2Light project manager

oled — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:02:31 -0400

In April 2008, we had the chance of interviewing Mary Kilitziraki, Fast2Light's project manager. Fast2Light is an integrated (9 companies, 3 research institutes and 2 universities) R&D project that aims to research and develop light emitting foils based on OLED tech.

GE Demonstrates World's First ''Roll-to-Roll'' Manufactured OLEDs

oled — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:29:17 -0400

GE Global Research today announced the successful demonstration of the world’s first roll-to-roll manufactured OLED lighting devices. This demonstration is a key step toward making OLEDs and other high performance organic electronics products at dramatically lower costs than what is possible today.

“Researchers have long dreamed of making OLEDs using a newspaper-printing like roll-to-roll process,” said Anil Duggal, manager of GE’s Advanced Technology Program in Organic Electronics. “Now we’ve shown that it is possible. Commercial applications in lighting require low manufacturing costs, and this demonstration is a major milestone on our way to developing low cost OLED lighting devices.”

GE gets funding from the DoE for OLED lighting project

oled — Sun, 20 May 2007 02:20:37 -0400

The US Department of Energy (DoE) has selected eight solid-state lighting (SSL) research and product development projects that will receive total funding of $13.3 million.

GE OLED information

oled — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:18:25 -0400

GE has just posted some interesting information about their OLED product research (just after the recent GE-Konica Minolta partnership announcement).

Konica and GE to jointly develop OLED lights, release product within 3 years

oled — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:57:56 -0400

Konica Minolta has tied up with GE to jointly develop flexible and thin lighting products using organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology. Konica Minolta said it would aim to release a product within three years, most likely using the GE brand.

Company spokeswoman Yuko Ogiso said Konica and GE would develop devices that are thin and can be bent to fit curved surfaces, aiming to offer a new category of lighting while cultivating the business into a new driver of earnings growth. Ogiso said the company did not have any concrete profit or sales forecasts for the OLED business.

GE Global Research and TOKKI Corp. Announce Joint Development Project

oled — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 01:33:07 -0500

GE Global Research, the centralized research organization for the General Electric Company and TOKKI Corporation, a leading supplier of OLED manufacturing equipment, announced a joint agreement to develop PECVD Film Encapsulation technology and equipment for manufacturing organic electronics such as organic light emitting diode (OLED) flat panel displays.

The goal is to develop and demonstrate equipment that could serve as the foundation for the future manufacturing and sale of glass-based displays that are thinner in design and much lower in cost.

As part of the agreement, GE Global Research will license its patented PECVD film encapsulation process to TOKKI for use in the company's state-of-art OLED manufacturing equipment. OLED devices require a high degree of hermetic sealing or "encapsulation," since moisture and oxygen can impede the devices' functionality.