OLED white lighting

Lomox has been awarded $700,000 to develop OLED lighting

oled — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:18:17 -0500

The Carbon-Trust (a UK-government supported nonprofit) has awarded $720,000 to Lomox. Lomox are working towards new OLED Lighting (and displays) materials and systems. Lomox hopes to have products on the market by 2012.

Via VentureBeat

Doosan to develop and commercialize OLED Lighting

oled — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:35:48 -0500

Another company is starting to work on OLED lighting: Doosan Electronic. They have signed an agreement with the Korean Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) to co-develop the OLEDs. They plan to use white phosphorescent materials that feature high efficiency and long lifetimes.

The Doosan group had another company involved with OLEDs, Doosan Mecatec (formerly Doosan DND). They have been involved in OLED manufacturing equipment back in 2004/5, but have stopped their OLED program a while back.

Via OLED Net

Showa Denko signs an OLED white lighting license agreement with UDC

oled — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:37:21 -0500

Showa Denko announced that it has signed a license agreement for OLED Lighting technology with Universal Display. Showa Denko will be able to integrate Universal Display’s proprietary UniversalPHOLED phosphorescent and other OLED technologies into Showa Denko’s white OLED lighting products fabricated by solution-processing methods. Under the agreement, UDC will get license fees and running royalties.

Showa Denko has been developing polymer-based white OLEDs for use with coating-type manufacturing equipment that may enable the cost-effective production of large-area lighting panels. Through their development of a new device structure and the use of phosphorescent OLED technology and materials, the company recently demonstrated a white OLED lighting device with 30 lumens per Watt.

LG creates a new company to handle all OLED patents and technologies

oled — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:12:02 -0500

LG Group has decided to create a new company that will handle all OLED patents and technology. It will be financed by LG Electronics, LG Display and LG Chem. The company will be created soon (hopefully before the end of 2009), and will probably be called LG OLED.

LG 15-inch OLED TVs

The new company will acquire all of Kodak's OLED patents, and will manage license contracts owned by Kodak.

LG Display is producing OLED panels (currently small/medium ones, up to 15", and has plans to start making large-sized OLED TV soon). LG Electronics is already selling OLED phones, and also the 15" OLED TV in Korea. LG Chem are working towards OLED Lighting, with plans to start producing panels in 2010.

Via KoreaTimes

PolyPhotonix demos an OLED dress

oled — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:21:54 -0500

UPDATE: it turns out that this is not an OLED dress at all! It is using EL panels, made by Elumin8 back in 2005. Here's more information...

UK's PolyPhotonix is showing an 'OLED Dress', designed by Gareth Pugh. The dress was exhibited at the launch of the UK's "Plastic Electronics Strategy' (the $32 million investment in plastic-electronics announced in July). The UK announced that by September 2010, they will begin prototype production of flexible OLED Lighting panels and low-cost long-life solar cells.

PolyPhotonix OLED dress

PolyPhotonix are working toward polymer-based OLED Lighting panels. Their first production line is already active (that's where they made the OLED panels for the dress).

Via Photonics.com

GE and Power Paper to develop battery-powered OLED Lighting

oled — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:34:21 -0500

GE and Israel's Power Paper will jointly-develop self-powered (battery) OLED Lighting. The project will combine Power Paper's paper-thin, flexible batteries with GE's OLEDs.

GE says that the new OLED products will cost less, be more effective and will be reliable and shock-resistant.

Via Reuters

Intertech Pira - OLED displays and lighting sales to reach $6.7 billion in 2014

oled — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:29:03 -0500

Intertech Pira says that the OLED market (for both displays and lighting) will reach $6.7 billion in 2014. That's a compound annual growth rate of 44 percent over five years. They say that OLED Displays will account for about $4.7 billion out of that, growing at a CAGR of 35%. OLED Lighting will grow more quickly (112% CAGR) to almost $2 billion in 2014 from, well, nothing today.

Via EETimes

OSRAM releases their first OLED Lighting panel, the ORBEOS

oled — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:05:07 -0500

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has released their first OLED Lighting product, called the ORBEOS. It has a round surface (88mm diameter), is only 2.1mm thick and weights 24g. The efficiency is 25lm/W. The panels are actually available now via OSRAM's site (here's the link to order one in the UK, if you have 220GBP to spare).

OSRAM ORBEUS OLED Lighting panel

The temperature is warm white color (2,800K, CRI up to 80) like an incandescent lamp. The panel can be switched on and off without delay, and is continuously dimmable. It emits no UV or infrared radiation, and does not contain mercury. Its brightness level is usually 1,000cd/m² with power input of less than a watt. In ideal operating conditions it has a lifespan of around 5,000 hours. ORBEOS is available with a frosted glass surface.

Nippon Electric Glass shows the world's slimmest OLED Lighting panel

oled — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:39:26 -0500

Nippon Electric Glass is showing the world's slimmest OLED Lighting panel - only 100 micrometer thick, using their ultra-slim glass substrate. They say that the panel has a high-level gas barrier properties, and that it can be easily bent.

Via OLEDNet

Philips: OLED Lighting will take 3-5 years to achieve good efficiencies

oled — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:59:28 -0500

There's an interesting story on Philips Lighting plans over at Tech-On, which obviously includes OLED Lighting. Philips are already shipping samples for quite some time (here's our review). Philips say that currently their OLED has an emission efficiency of 10lm/W to 20lm/W.

Philips OLED panel

They have already achieved 80lm/W "in the lab", but it will take at least 3 years to achieve 50lm/W at the production level, and 5 years to go beyond that.