Mitsubishi Chemical and Pioneer have jointly developed OLED elements produced using a wet coating process for the light-emitting layers. The two companies will establish a testing facility with an aim to commercialize this technology for OLED lighting mass production by 2014.

Mitsubishi's and Pioneer's OLED coating project began in January 2010, and in May 2011 the companies announced that they managed to fabricate a white OLED in which the emissive layer was formed in a coating process. That OLED featured 52 lm/W and a lifetime (LT50) of 20,000 hours (@1,000cd/m² luminance). The new panel produced now features 56 lm/W and a lifetime (LT70) of 57,000 hours (@1,000cd/m² luminance) which is quite an improvement.

Here's a nice video showing Verbatim's tunable OLED lighting panels (Velve), taken at the L+B 2012 exhibition:

These panels are Verbatim's 2nd-Generation panels, which are twice as bright than the original panels at 2,000 cd/m². The company offers two panel sizes: 131x44 mm and 65x72 mm. Verbatim can also create custom-made OLED panel sizes, and indeed in the video you can spot three different sizes. The Velve OLED lighting panels are made together by Mitsubishi and Pioneer, and are the world's only color-tunable OLED lighting panels.

Verbatim started shipping the first color tunable Velve panels back in April 2011, and now the company is presenting their 2nd-Generation panels and modules - which are twice as bright at 2,000 cd/m².

The company offers two panel sizes (although Verbatim can also create custom-made OLED panel sizes): 131x44 mm and 65x72 mm. The depth is just 5 mm. The profile of the modules is smaller, thinner and lighter because the printed circuit board is no longer rear-mounted and is housed in an electronic control unit connected via cabling.

Artist Takahiro Matsuo designed a color changing "OLED Chair" art project which uses Verbatim's Velve color-tunable OLED panels. This chair was on show at Tenjin IMS, Hakata, Japan in December 2011. The Velve panels do not generate any heat, so you can actually sit on this chair:

Verbatim announces a new OLED module that can be used to quickly and easily make OLED lighting schemes. Each module include a single rectangular (123x123 mm) Velve OLED panel. The module includes control electronics on the back. The whole assembly measures 146.4 x 133.3 x 8.7 mm and weights 192 grams. The modules are dimmable and consume 2.6W from a 24V DC power source. They feature both DMX512 and DALI interfaces.

Verbatim are also offering the Velve OLED lighting sample kits costing ¥90,000 in Japan ($1,050). The Velve OLED lighting panels are made together by Mitsubishi and Pioneer, and are the world's first color-tunable OLED lighting panels. The panels 31 lm/W efficiency and 8,000 hours of lifetime. The typical CRI is 80.

Tokyo's Narita airport ordered several displays from Mitsubishi - including a 180-degree concave Diamond Vision OLED display called Panorama Vision. We don't have any more technical information about this display. Mitsubishi will also install two pairs of 330" LCDs and over 300 touch screen displays. Mitsubishi will begin to install the displays in March 2012 and they will be in full operation by the summer of 2012.

This is Mitsubishi's third Diamond Vision OLED installation that we know about. The first one was a 3.84x2.3 meter display installed at Merck's research center and the second was the 6" Geo-Cosmos sphere installed at Tokyo's Science Museum.

Mitsubishi installed a curved Diamond Vision OLED display at the CEATEC 2011 exhibition. This display uses 696 PMOLED modules - each 32x32mm in size. Mitsubishi says that the pixel pitch is 3mm - which means that each module's resolution is 10x10.

This is actually a very small Diamond Vision OLED installation - compared to the gigantic OLED globe installed in Tokyo's science museum - which has 10,362 panels (!) - each 96x96mm in size...

Remember Mitsubishi's Geo-Cosmos 6-meter PMOLED globe? The company installed this at the Tokyo Science Museum and now they published a beautiful video showing it:

The Geo-Cosmos is a spherical Diamond Vision OLED - which means that it's made out of small PMOLED modules. In fact it uses 10,362 panels (!) - each 96x96mm in size - total resolution is more than 10 million pixels. Each module has 32x32 resolution - and it's made out of 4 smaller sub-modules.

Update: Here's a nice video showing the Geo-Cosmos OLED globe in action

Mitsubishi Electric installed a new six-meter OLED 'globe' (called "Geo-Cosmos") at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, Japan. This is the world's first large-scale spherical OLED display and it will be unveiled on June 11. The globe will replace the existing LED globe and will show scenes of clouds and visions of the earth taken from a meteorological satellite.

This is a Diamond Vision OLED - which means that it's made out of small PMOLED modules. In fact it uses 10,362 panels (!) - each 96x96mm in size - total resolution is more than 10 million pixels. Each module has 32x32 resolution - and it's made out of 4 smaller sub-modules (see below). Anyway it's news to us that Mitsubishi developed these smaller modules - previous modules were 384x384mm in size and 128x128 in resolution. Obviously this is useful to make curved or spherical displays.

WAC lighting is showing a new Hybrid-OLED luminaire - which is the first lamp to sport color-tunable OLEDs. This lamp uses Verbatim's Velve panels. The Hybrid-OLED includes six OLED panels delivering 300-plus lumens at 12 watts. Beside the OLEDs, the lamp include 8 low power LEDs (that provide 550 lumens at 12 watts). Currently we only have this closeup photo:

This is WAC Lighting's second OLED lamp - the first one being a chandelier that uses OSRAM's ORBEOS OLED Panels.