Visionox shows new OLED lighting and display prototypes

Visionox (a Chinese company) is showing new 'decorative'  OLED lighting and display prototypes. There's an OLED lamp, and an OLED digital photo frame.

Visionox say they have achieved the following technology breakthroughs:

  • Long lifetime (over 100,000 hours halftime at brightness of 1000 cd/m2) fluorescent white OLEDs with a composite blue emitting structure.
  • Highly efficient hybrid OLEDs with an efficiency of over 40 lm/W at the brightness of 1000 cd/m2 without any light out-coupling technology.
  • Flexible OLED lighting and transparent OLED lighting samples.
Visionox OLED photo frame Prototype

Visionox say that their decorative OLED-Lighting products are actually available in small volumes. They hope to enter the general lighting markets in a few years.

The lamps look very much like the TOPLESS project lamp prototypes (shown back in August).

Read the full story Posted: Oct 31,2009

Samsung and LG show new transparent OLED prototypes


Both Samsung and LG are showing new transparent OLED prototypes. The LG one is a 15" panel, aimed for "public places". LG does not have any plans to commercialize it yet.



LG 15-inch transparent OLED prototypeLG 15-inch transparent OLED prototype


Samsung showed a smaller (2") transparent OLED, with a 176x220 resolution at 141ppi. The luminance is 300 cd/m2for the top emission and 100cd/m2 for the bottom emission.



Samsung 2-inch transparent OLED prototypeSamsung 2-inch transparent OLED prototype

Read the full story Posted: Oct 29,2009

New All-In-One credit card concept


Here's a nice concept design (or idea, really) - an all-in-one credit card device, that uses an OLED display. You can load it with all of your cards, and then you can choose which one to display. A special strip at the back side mimics your actual card. Useful, eh?



 

Read the full story Posted: Oct 29,2009

Recom introduces a new 2.8" AMOLED video name tag


The Recom Group has a new product - the video name tag, using a 2.8" AMOLED (320x240). It's got 2Gb of internal memory, to store a video and then play it continuously (it can do this for around 6-10 hours between recharges).






They call it "personal signage" and think it'll be useful for waiters, business man, promoters, service reps, etc. The video-name-tag costs 198$.


Read the full story Posted: Oct 29,2009

UDC Awarded U.S. Army SBIR Contract Extension for Flexible OLED Displays Built on Metal Foil

Universal Display Corporation has been awarded a $334,000 extension to a US army Small-Business-Innovation-Research (SBIR) phase III contract. UDC will continue to work on their flexible OLED display technology, and will deliver new prototype flexible displays built on metal foil (using amorphhous-silicon backplanes). The new displays will also be encased in new and thinner housing (the old ones were pretty bulky, as can be seen in the photo below).

UDC is working on this together with LG Display and L-3 display systems. They will focus on the design and performance of the OLED displays. The technology is being evaluation by the US Department of Defense for military applications such as a wrist-mounted display for soldiers.

Read the full story Posted: Oct 25,2009

OSRAM shows new totally transparent OLED lighting panels

OSRAM are announcing new advances in their transparent OLED lighting panels. They have developed a large (17x17 cm2, with a 210cm2 luminous area) transparent OLED, which is only a few hundred micrometers thick. The samples have been developed as part of the TOPAS project (scheduled to produce a 1 meter-square OLED module by 2011).

OSRAM transparent OLED lighting panel photo

OSRAM says that there is a "clear demand" for large, low-profile transparent light sources.

Read the full story Posted: Oct 24,2009 - 1 comment