OLED is a unique lighting technology - it enables flat, diffused planar lighting panels. These panels are different to the point (or line) sources we're used to - incandescent, fluorescent, CFLs and LEDs. But you can also use LEDs to build planar lighting panels. Several companies are offering such solutions called edge-lit panels.
Israel's OREE developed proprietary technology that enables them to offer panels which are so thin that they are quite similar to OLED panels in form (almost... more on this below), yet are efficient, very bright and a lot cheaper than current OLEDs. They were kind enough to invite me to their offices for a visit and also sent me a couple of samples for a review.
So let's understand OREE's technology first. OREE's lighting panels (they brand them as LightCells) are made from red and blue inorganic-LEDs, a light guide which basically spreads the LED point lighting source into a diffused panel, and a planar remote phosphor coating that converts the blue and red light into white.
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