Visionox (a Chinese company) is showing new 'decorative'  OLED lighting and display prototypes. There's an OLED lamp, and an OLED digital photo frame.

Visionox say they have achieved the following technology breakthroughs:

• Long lifetime (over 100,000 hours halftime at brightness of 1000 cd/m2) fluorescent white OLEDs with a composite blue emitting structure.
• Highly efficient hybrid OLEDs with an efficiency of over 40 lm/W at the brightness of 1000 cd/m2 without any light out-coupling technology.
• Flexible OLED lighting and transparent OLED lighting samples.

Visionox say that their decorative OLED-Lighting products are actually available in small volumes. They hope to enter the general lighting markets in a few years.

The lamps look very much like the TOPLESS project lamp prototypes (shown back in August).

LG Display will build a new 5G AMOLED plant in the beginning of 2011. Mass production of OLED panels will being in 2H 2011. It will have a capacity of 40,000 sheets Gen 5 sheets a month.  

Samsung's current AMOLED fab is Geb-4.

Kodak is wishing us all a happy Halloween - using OLED lighting panels instead of candles:

And here's a photo of the actual OLED lighting panels (mounted on a glass fixtures):

Both Samsung and LG are showing new transparent OLED prototypes. The LG one is a 15" panel, aimed for "public places". LG does not have any plans to commercialize it yet.

LG 15-inch transparent OLED prototype

Samsung showed a smaller (2") transparent OLED, with a 176x220 resolution at 141ppi. The luminance is 300 cd/m²for the top emission and 100cd/m² for the bottom emission.

Samsung 2-inch transparent OLED prototype

Here's a nice concept design (or idea, really) - an all-in-one credit card device, that uses an OLED display. You can load it with all of your cards, and then you can choose which one to display. A special strip at the back side mimics your actual card. Useful, eh?

 

The Recom Group has a new product - the video name tag, using a 2.8" AMOLED (320x240). It's got 2Gb of internal memory, to store a video and then play it continuously (it can do this for around 6-10 hours between recharges).

They call it "personal signage" and think it'll be useful for waiters, business man, promoters, service reps, etc. The video-name-tag costs 198$.

ST Microelectronics announced a "key design win" for its power management ICs for AMOLED displays from a leading manufacturer in Korea (which is probably Samsung or LG).

Universal Display Corporation has been awarded a $334,000 extension to a US army Small-Business-Innovation-Research (SBIR) phase III contract. UDC will continue to work on their flexible OLED display technology, and will deliver new prototype flexible displays built on metal foil (using amorphhous-silicon backplanes). The new displays will also be encased in new and thinner housing (the old ones were pretty bulky, as can be seen in the photo below).

UDC is working on this together with LG Display and L-3 display systems. They will focus on the design and performance of the OLED displays. The technology is being evaluation by the US Department of Defense for military applications such as a wrist-mounted display for soldiers.

OSRAM are announcing new advances in their transparent OLED lighting panels. They have developed a large (17x17 cm2, with a 210cm2 luminous area) transparent OLED, which is only a few hundred micrometers thick. The samples have been developed as part of the TOPAS project (scheduled to produce a 1 meter-square OLED module by 2011).

OSRAM says that there is a "clear demand" for large, low-profile transparent light sources.

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