OSRAM Opto Semiconductors ORBEOS: first OLED light source

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 to build OLED lighting pilot production line

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 [...]

Samsung flexible OLED display prototype

This Samsung flexible OLED prototype is certainly impressive. The apparent absence of defects indicates that Samsung is putting serious effort into developing flexible displays:

[via OLED-Info]

PolyPhotonix: UK OLED lighting start-up

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 [...]

Ciba develops long-lifetime phosphorescent material for Novaled’s OLED technology

From the press release:
Ciba has developed a deep red phosphorescent OLED emitter that functions optimally in combination with the Novaled PIN OLED™ technology, delivering a lifetime of 50,000 hours at an initial brightness of 1,000 cd/m2. The new material supports the market trend toward high-performance, low-voltage OLED devices for display and lighting applications.

“We want to [...]

Sumitomo Chemical Company to Acquire Cambridge Display Technology

From the press release:

Sumitomo Chemical Company (Sumitomo Chemical) and Cambridge Display Technology (NASDAQ: OLED) (CDT) today jointly announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement whereby Sumitomo Chemical will acquire CDT, a developer of technologies based on polymer organic light emitting diodes (P-OLEDs). Under the merger agreement, Sumitomo Chemical will acquire all outstanding [...]

CMEL volume producing OLED panels

According to DigiTimes, Chi Mei EL Corporation (CMEL), a Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) subsidiary,

started [to] volume produce active-matrix (AM) OLED (organic light-emitting diode) panels in May, with monthly capacity able to reach 500,000 2-inch equivalent panels at present.
Zhe-yang Chen, president of CMEL, said the company has begun shipping 2-inch AM OLED panels to China- [...]

Sony: first flexible colour OLED display

CNET News is reporting on the world’s first truly flexible OLED display fabricated by Sony.

According to Pink Tentacle

The 2.5-inch prototype display supports 16.8 million colors at a 120 x 160 pixel resolution (80 ppi, .318-mm pixel pitch), is 0.3 mm thick and weighs 1.5 grams without the driver.

The prototype, as well as technical details [...]

Sony to start selling 11-inch OLED TVs in 2007

According to Reuters, Sony are planning to be the first to bring OLED TVs to the Market later this year.

At a display forum in Tokyo, customers, suppliers, and even rival TV makers turned their backs on 50-inch and bigger TVs to throng before Sony’s tiny 11-inch OLED TVs.
“LCD and plasma displays look faded in comparison,” [...]

Dai Nippon Printing to commercialize OLEDs for sign displays in 2008

According to DigiTimes,

Japan’s Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) will commercialize OLED (organic light-emitting diode) panels before the end of fiscal year 2008, according to the company.
Jointly with a research institute, the Japanese vendor plans to develop technology to extend the lifespan of panels by ten times that of conventional products to 10,000 hours, with a brightness [...]

Konica Minolta and GE Form Strategic Alliance to Accelerate the Commercialization of OLED Lighting

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 [...]

NanoMarkets: bright future for OLEDs

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]

Personal Display Glasses using MicroEmissive Displays

MicroEmissive Displays (makers of P-OLED microdisplays) announced that

the PDG – Personal Display Glasses, the world’s first mobile TV viewing experience employing the MDDI standard, is on display at 3GSM 2007 in Barcelona from 12 – 15th February.

The PDG is the most advanced integrated personal display and mobile phone solution on the market. The PDG has [...]

MicroEmissive Displays: production plant and first order

According to their press release, MicroEmissive Displays (MED, Edinburgh, UK)

will start commissioning and qualification of its new production plant in the Fraunhofer IPMS in Dresden early in 2007. The move comes following the on-time handover of the purpose built cleanroom and delivery of the tool set from ANS Korea.

The 350 m2 purpose built cleanroom is [...]

OTB thin-film encapsulated OLEDs meet shelf-life requirements for commercial use

OTB Display announced

that it is able to produce thin film encapsulated OLED devices that meet the shelf-life requirements for commercial use. Not only are these displays manufactured on OTB’s in-line mass manufacturing equipment, but also the deposition of the thin film encapsulation has been proven to render the same optical performance as the conventional, [...]