Acuity Brands announce new hybrid OLED and LED light luminaries

Acuity Brands announced new luminaries that use both LED and OLED light sources. Acuity Brands calls this new technology "Duet SSL", saying that "the interplay of the two solid-state technologies effectively combines the focused and directed light benefits of LEDs with the soft, uniform glow of OLEDs, offering specifiers new and more dynamic ways for lighting a space".

Acuity Brands Duet SSL photo

Acuity Brands announced two new concept Duet SSL families, the Imoni and Olessence, which you can see above. Each product family features several form factors and applications. We assume these new lamps adopt LG Chem's OLED panels, as in most of Acuity Brand's OLED luminaires.

Read the full story Posted: May 08,2015

The US DoE awards almost $10 million for efficient LED and OLED lighting projects

Update: the DoE released more details about the new OLED projects

The US Energy Department (DoE) announced its tenth round of efficient SSL lighting awards. The DoE awarded more than $8.2 million for nine projects (with the private sector investing a further $3.2 million).

The DoE only detailed three LED projects and a single OLED project - which was awarded to Acuity Brands to develop an OLED with increased efficiency and light input. No other details were provided and we do not have information regarding the other five projects.

Read the full story Posted: May 08,2015

Universal Display reports inline financial results for Q1 2015

Universal Display reported their financial results for Q1 2015 - and there were no surprises this time - revenues were $31.2 million and net income was $1.3 million. Material sales were $26.8 million - and the company did not receive royalties from SDC this quarter - and also not from LG Display (following the new long-term contract with LG, there's a quarter lag in royalties).

UDC expects a stronger second half, as wearables, flexible displays and OLED TVs enter the market. The reiterated their guidance for revenues of $200 million (with possible 5% downside and 15% upside).

Read the full story Posted: May 08,2015

OLED-Info's flexible and microdisplays OLED market reports updated to May 2015

Today we published new versions of our Microdisplays and Flexible OLED market reports. OLED-Info provides comprehensive niche OLED market reports, and our reports cover everything you need to know about the niche market, and can be useful if you want to understand how the OLED industry works and what this technology can provide for your own industry. The reports are now updated to May 2015.

The Flexible OLED Market Report:

  • Why flexible displays and lighting panels are so exciting
  • What kind of flexible displays are currently on the market
  • What the future holds for flexible OLEDs
  • How to acquire flexible OLEDs for your products

The report package provides a good introduction to the flexible OLED market - present and future. It details both flexible displays and lighting technologies. Read more here!

Read the full story Posted: May 05,2015

Up close and personal: Wendy Jameson

Today's personal OLED interview features Wendy Jameson - the CEO and co-founder of Colnatec, a film thickness monitoring company. If you wish to be featured next, contact us here!

Wendy Jameson photo

What was the last book you read? and the last movie you saw? The last book I read was an eBook on my iPad, "The Whites", which I borrowed from my local library via Kindle. The last movie I saw was on TV, and I had seen it last year but forgot most of it, Oblivion.


Read the full story Posted: May 04,2015

Philips offers their last LivingShapes interactive OLED mirrors at 80% discount

Remember Philips' LivingShapes interactive OLED mirror? The 64-OLED device was priced at €3,500, and Philips now announced a limited-time sale that offers the same device for €700. That's a 80% discount - that will be in effect till June 30th (or until Philips runs out of mirrors to sell - they currently have 60 in stock).

The Interactive mirror has 64 square OLED panels (8x8) each 42x44.2 mm in size (color temperature 3000K, total luminance 400 lm). The mirror uses infrared sensors that detects the outline of the person looking at the mirror and switches off the OLEDs that are in the field of vision - thus turning it into a mirror.

Read the full story Posted: May 02,2015

Hands on review of Acuity Brand's Chalina OLED luminaire

Towards the end of 2014, Home Depot started to offer several Acuity Brands OLED luminaries, with prices starting at $199. This was exciting - as these are the cheapest OLED lamps ever, and it is the first time OLEDs are offered at a major retail channel.

Acuity Brands Chalina lit on wall photo

The nice guys at Acuity Brands sent me a Chalina 5-panel OLED luminaire (wall-mountable version) for a review here at OLED-Info. So first of all I want to thank Acuity for this. I will post a short review, focusing mostly on my experiences with this lamp, and people's reaction to it.

Read the full story Posted: May 01,2015

IHS: the 1.34" flexible OLED display in the Apple Watch costs $20.5

IHS estimates the cost of materials in the Apple Watch (sports edition) to be $81.2 ($83.7 including the cost of the watch production itself). The most expensive component is the flexible OLED display which costs $20.5 - this is the glass covered display. Other components include the CPU ($10.2), the memory ($7.2) and the power management unit ($5.5).

The display is reportedly made by LG Display, and is a 1.34" diagonal panel with a resolution of 272x340 (290 PPI). The display cost includes TPK's ForceTouch layer. In 2014 DisplaySearch estimated the display would cost $27 to produce (assuming 60% yields).

Read the full story Posted: May 01,2015 - 1 comment