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According to a new report from NanoMarkets the OLED lighting market will reach almost US $4.5 billion ($US) by 2013 and grow to $5.9 billion by 2015. The firm claims that in the past year the prospects for OLED lighting have made great leaps forward due to improvements in OLED performance and manufacturing.

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Key findings of the OLED lighting market report:

• The unit costs of OLED lights are likely to remain higher than older general lighting technologies but the extra costs will be offset by improved OLED lifetimes and efficiencies. During 2008, OLED lifetimes improved from 24 Khrs to 100 Khrs. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Energy now expects OLED lighting to reach 150 lm/W efficiency in 2012 rather than 2014 as previously forecast. NanoMarkets believes that these and other improvements in OLEDs will drive the general illumination market to $2.3 billion in revenues by 2015.

   

• Manufacturing processes for OLEDs have also progressed significantly. GE and the Fraunhofer Institute have both demonstrated roll-to-roll manufacturing of OLED lighting which will ultimately lead to significant cost improvements in OLED fabrication. Low cost printing approaches and new small molecule inks will also help propel OLEDs into the backlighting market. NanoMarkets expects that the OLED backlighting market will reach $1.1 billion by 2015. And while the first OLED lighting panels are quite small, the recent scaling up of factories in Asia to build large OLED displays will certainly benefit the manufacturing infrastructure for OLED lighting and lead to larger panels within a few years.

   

• The flat and flexible format presented by OLEDs creates an opportunity to design high-value added lighting fixtures with an appeal to upscale consumers and especially architects. During 2008, lighting designer Ingo Maurer introduced the worlds first OLED "function table light" and researchers at GE are targeting lighted curtains and lighted wallpaper. By 2015, NanoMarkets projects that sales of OLED architectural and specialist industrial lighting will reach $1.9 billion.

NanoMarket's upcoming OLED Lighting Markets-2008 will analyze and forecast the rapidly emerging market for OLED lighting and will answer important questions such as which segments of the lighting market will see the first penetration of OLED lighting and when and what are the likely improvements that we will see in lifetimes, luminance and efficiency over the coming years. The report will provide a thorough examination of the OLED lighting business and include an analysis of the latest manufacturing techniques and developments on the OLED materials front as well as a detailed applications market analysis of mobile electronics backlighting the vast general illumination market and large outdoor signage displays. It will also include profiles of the major firms developing OLED lighting and the leading government funded R&D projects around the world that are helping to drive OLED lighting into the market place. Detailed forecasts in volume and value terms will also be included.

Released in July 2007, Emerging Markets for OLED and Printed Lighting provided a complete analysis of the commercial opportunities for electroluminescent, nanotube and OLED lighting used for backlighting, general illumination, specialty/architectural lighting, vehicular lighting, signage and niche applications. The report included detailed eight-year (volume and value) market forecasts as well as strategic profiles of all the leading firms developing and marketing this emerging technology, as well as the activities of government funded projects in the U.S. and Europe.

Lighting utilizing OLED could benefit from printing as a manufacturing technique because it can add to its cost effectiveness, says a new report from NanoMarkets, an industry analysis firm.

OLEDs have advantages over other lighting technologies because they combine high brightness with an ability to be fabricated on a thin, flexible display. These are properties that open up opportunities for OLED lighting in architectural lighting, vehicular lighting, and other areas says NanoMarkets. With the improvements in functional printing and the arrival of small molecules inks, it is likely that a higher proportion of OLEDs will be printed because of greater cost effectiveness, states the report. NanoMarkets projects that OLED and other printed lighting markets could possibly reach almost $2.5 billion in the next seven years.

About the report: As new opportunities rapidly emerge in energy efficient solid-state lighting, new manufacturing approaches are also assuming more importance and these include printing. Electroluminescent (EL) lighting has been printed for years, but this report goes beyond EL and includes discussions of other forms of printed lighting, including systems based on carbon nanotube emissions and especially on OLEDs. The report, Printable Electronics Market Outlook: Printed Lighting, reviews the market potential for all of the main applications for printed lighting from simple backlighting applications to sophisticated architectural lighting. It also provides data on the performance criteria for printed lighting and profiles some of the leading firms and government projects exploring printed lighting technology, discusses recent events in this field. Finally, it provides an eight-year market forecast of the revenues that NanoMarkets expects from printed lighting with break outs by both technology and applications segment.

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Printed electronics products are now in full-scale production. E-paper displays and RFID antennas are being routinely printed and such products are expected to generate $5.6 and $12.6 billion in revenues respectively by 2015. E-paper, in particular, has emerged as something of a killer application for printed electronics, demonstrating that printing technology can produce complex electronics products that can generate real revenue. NanoMarkets analysts also expect that as improved manufacturing equipment and materials become available further product opportunities will emerge.

Printing also seems certain to have a major role in the manufacturing of next-generation photovoltaics with novel CIGS and nanoparticle inks being used to create low-cost, high efficiency solar panels on flexible substrates. Projected sales for printed solar panels will reach $2.5 billion by 2015. Printed electronics will also make a contribution to energy savings through printed OLED lighting, an emerging cost effective approach to solid state illumination. This type of lighting is expected to reach $1.7 billion in sales by 2015.

NanoMarkets has published a new white paper that discusses the market opportunities for OLED lighting. The paper was drawn from a report released in Q3 of 2007. NanoMarkets discusses the status of current OLED lighting research, the competition, and also "Open Questions, Challenges and Solutions".

This analysis makes the case for printed and organic lighting market/OLED lighting seem very easy to make. But as always the devil is in the details. OLED lighting may be able to offer remarkable things such as substrate flexibility, but no one yet knows where that capability can generate the most revenues. Among the many new products that could be created using cool new OLED lighting technology we don’t know yet which are likely to be snapped up by customers. And while the potential for using R2R processes and printing opens up exciting possibilities for price points that would greatly accelerate the adoption of OLED lighting, nobody has yet settled on which manufacturing processes or materials make the most sense and which can promote the greatest leaps forward in terms of brightness, power efficiency, stability and lifetime.

The state of the art for OLED lamps today is roughly in the 1030 lm/W range today, but that’s likely to be a short-term frontier. UDC, for example, is in the midst of a 40 lm/W project and Eastman Kodak is working on broad enhancements to small molecule OLEDs under a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) program culminating in September, 2008, with hopes of hitting 50 lm/W. Another DOE project is applying a novel nanocomposite coating material to the OLED anode to optimize hole transport and attain 60-80 lm/W in conjunction with a life exceeding 10 Khrs. The DOE’s technology roadmap 100 to 150 lumens/W for OLED lighting in the long run.

The market for printed and organic lighting will exceed $2.9 billion ($US) by 2012, according to a new report from NanoMarkets. The report claims that the higher energy efficiencies and ability to create novel lighting products provided by OLED and carbon nanotubes in particular will push the entire printed and organic lighting market up to $5.9 billion by 2014.

NanoMarkets says that most of the new business will come from the backlighting, general illumination and architectural/specialty industrial lighting applications with significant opportunities also in vehicular lighting, signage and a variety of niche markets.

The NanoMarkets report, Printed Electronics: A Manufacturing Technology Analysis and Capacity Forecast, provides the first complete analysis of the commercial environment and manufacturing capacity for printable electronics manufacturing. It includes an assessment of the printing equipment used in this space and of the strategies of the manufacturers and integrators supplying the technology.

The report profiles 11 leading firms currently producing PE products, describing their current and future manufacturing plans, the kinds of equipment they are using and how they are creating the first printable electronics fabs, to meet their expectations of the market. The report also includes a forecast from 2007 to 2013 of printing equipment shipments broken out by type of equipment and whether the equipment is used in an R&D or full-scale production facility.

According to a new report from 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. Details about the firm’s newest report are available at the firm's website located at www.nanomarkets.net.

Key findings from the report include:

Mobility: OLED displays are particularly well suited to the needs of mobile communications and computing because of their low power consumption and ability to support mobile video. NanoMarkets expects OLED-based displays for mobile phones and other handheld devices to reach $7.2 billion in revenues by 2014.

Organic electronics is rapidly making its way out of the lab and into real world applications, according to NanoMarkets. The firm is set to release a new report that finds the market for products such as OLEDs, organic thin-film transistors and other electronic products made from organic materials will grow from $1.4 billion in 2007 to $19.7 billion by 2012 and then go on to reach $34.4 billion in revenues by 2014.

From the report: OLED displays are no longer just for low-end MP3 players and cell phone sub-displays, they are becoming part of the latest mobile electronics concepts including LG’s ebook laptop and Sony-Ericsson’s ultra-slim cell phone.