The UK's CPI to establish a center for healthcare photonics

The UK Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is going to establish a new National Centre for Healthcare Photonics. The Centre will open in 2017 and will enable companies of all sizes to develop related technologies and bring them to market.

Light can be used to diagnose and treat several medical conditions and illnesses. The UK believes this area offers a huge potential, with applications ranging from wound, skin and cancer care to niche applications in neurology and ophthalmology. The CPI hopes that OLED will be one of the technologies used in the new centre.


Read the full story Posted: Feb 03,2015

Samsung to unveil the GS6 on March 1st, teaser seems to indicate a curved design

Samsung sent out invitations to a Galaxy Unpacked event on March 1st in Barcelona, where the company will likely unveil the next Galaxy device - the GS6.

Samsung's GS6 unpacked event invitation

The invitation seems to indicate a curved device - although it's not clear to me what kind of design is hinted at here. It's possible that Samsung will use a flexible OLED display curved on the edge - in a similar design to the Galaxy Note Edge shown below. According to some reports, the GS6 will sport a dual-edge display (the Note Edge is only curved on the right side).

Read the full story Posted: Feb 03,2015

Konica Minolta ships 15,000 flexible OLED lighting panels to a Japanese Tulips Festival

Konica Minolta recently started mass producing flexible OLED lighting panels, and the Japanese company now announced that it shipped 15,000 flexible OLEDs to a Japanese Tulips Festival - by far the largest OLED installation to date.

Konica Minolta Shining Tulip Festival photo

The OLED "Shining Tulip Festival" will take place at the Japanese Huisch Tembosch theme park, from February 14th to April 13th. Konica are making both white and color-tunable OLEDs, but it seems that this installation uses only white panels.

Read the full story Posted: Feb 02,2015

Up close and personal: Steffen Schmitz

Today's personal OLED interview features Steffen Schmitz from Astron FIAMM. If you wish to be featured on such interview, contact us here.

Steffen Schmitz photo

Steffen Schmitz, Direct or Projects at Astron FIAMM Safety, project leader for all OLEDs for technical applications. Automotive, medical, airborne, train based. Basically all projects where the client doesn't only want some nice looking, flat light sources, but where the client expresses his needs as well in figures and measurement.

Read the full story Posted: Feb 02,2015