OLED is an amazing technology for lighting - it creates beautiful, efficient and healthy light sources. OLED lighting has great promise but unfortunately the high price of production is a challenge that no one has managed to overcome and OLED lighting remains a small niche industry as of 2019.
In the early years, several large lighting makers (including GE, Philips, OSRAM, Panasonic, NEC and others) had active OLED lighting programs, but slowly almost all of these companies dropped out of the market - for various reasons - but the main one being that the large investments in large scale production are not certified to lead to market adoption and the competition with LED lighting is extremely difficult.
The larger lighting makers have pulled out of the market, but lately we see smaller companies that have entered the market, with aims to become lighting producers. In recent months we have heard that PMOLED maker RiTDisplay is now starting to produce OLED lighting panels, and Taiwan's material maker LumTec has also constructed an OLED lighting production line and is now producing panels. This is a very interesting development and time will tell whether these smaller producers will be able to turn a profit with their limited production and investment potential.
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As an ardent OLED lighting advocate I am still hopeful that millions of these units will be sold.The quality of the illumination, the logical design, the cool factor it's being ignored by most...and that's a shame
I'll keep buying them,using them & praising them, I wish others would do likewise.