OSRAM Opto Semiconductors have started selling what appears to be the first OLED lighting product.
The warm white, 80 mm diameter ORBEOS panel with an efficiency of 25 lm/W is now available for purchase.
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 [...]
Konica Minolta is planning a new roll-to-roll pilot manufacturing line for OLED lighting panels.
The company today announced a construction of a new roll-to-roll pilot coating line to manufacture OLED lighting within its Hino facility in Tokyo. The pilot line is dedicated to establish production technology toward mass-production and to sell the product on the limited [...]
UK start-up PolyPhotonix are to set up a production line for large-area OLED lighting at the Printable Electronics Technology Centre (PETEC, part of NETPark in County Durham, UK).
They will be using PLED (polymer OLED) materials under license from CDT.
[CEO Richard] Kirk is in “advanced talks” towards a £3m funding round which will pay for the [...]
Konica Minolta (KM) and General Electric (GE) announced
a strategic alliance agreement to accelerate the development and commercialization of OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) devices for lighting applications. The goal is to bring OLED lighting to market within the next 3 years. [...]
On June 30, 2006, KM announced that it had successfully developed a white OLED [...]
According to a new report by NanoMarkets,
the market for OLEDs used in displays and lighting applications is expected to reach $10.9 billion ($US) by 2012 and grow to $15.5 billion by the year 2014.
The report discusses the use of OLEDs for mobile devices, flexible/rollable displays, and lighting applications.
[via CNET news]
According to CNET, Cyberlux are developing white LEDs combining an inorganic semiconductor with an organic phosphorescent layer:
In conventional white-light LEDs, a semiconductor emits blue light. The blue light passes through the phosphor and becomes white light. The phosphor is thin film on a substrate; the substrate has to be placed in intricate proximity to [...]
Novaled is reinforcing its production of samples to better respond on the increasing customer requests. Additional Manufacturing and Testing capacities will be installed in Novaled’s clean rooms in Dresden, Germany within this year.
“We just recruited new production staff to be able to operate our equipment 24 hours a day seven days a week” says Kai [...]