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OSRAM announced it has developed a new white OLED panel that achieve record efficiency - 87 lm/W. The tested panel had a brightness of 1,000 cd/m² and a color temperature of about 4,000K. At 5,000 cd/m² brightness the panel offers almost 75 lm/W.

OSRAM used a pure thin-film approach. The current was distributed evenly over the active surface using a special injection electrode on the light-generating surface and offers homogeneous light density from every angle.

ORSAM unveiled a new OLED and LED lamp, called the Airabesc. Here's how they describe the design: "As if modeled by the wind ('Air'), the elements of the reduced, symmetrical aluminum form seem to be floating in the air. Despite the structure’s flowing lightness and harmony which are inspired by the arabesque, a ballet position, the biomorphic shape casts its spell on the observer".

The Airabesc is hand-made from premium materials in Germany and provides warm atmospheric light. The lamp length is 81cm, the width is 30cm and the height is 10cm. It contains 11 ORBEOS (RMW-046) rectangle panels and 6 LEDs (OSLON LCW CQ7P.CC). The power consumption is about 16W. The lamp comes in black, white or polished aluminum.

The European OLED100.eu project developed a new OLED lighting panel that is the largest to date: a 33x33cm² panel. The new panel offer 25lm/W at 1000 cd/m² luminance. This relatively good efficiency was achieved using out-coupling and an efficient RGB OLED stack. The panels were fabricated at the Gen-2 line at the Fraunhofer IPMS.

The new panels are based on the on-substrate tiling concept - with 5 segments connected in series. The 33x33cm² panel itself is seamless and so can be tiled to create larger panels. The active area on each panel is 828cm^{2 (}aperture ratio of 76%).

OSRAM announced two new Orbeos OLED lighting panels - a rectangular and a round panel, both are mirrored and warm-white in color. The original Orbeos panel was also round and warm-white in color, but was not mirrored (but rather "diffused"). The new panels are also thinner then before (1.8mm vs 2.1 in the older panel). Here's our hands-on review of the original Orbeos panel.

So now Osram offers 3 panels:

• CDW-031 is the original warm-white, diffuse white round panel. 79mm diameter, 2.1 thickness, 24 grams.
• CMW-031 is the new round mirrored white panel, also 79mm diameter and 1.8 thick, 23 grams.
• RMW-046 is the new mirrored white rectangle - 132x48mm, 1.8mm thick, 22 grams.

German design firm Benwirth Licht created a new modular OLED/LED lamp called Cluster+. The lamp uses both LEDs and OLEDs (OSRAM's ORBEOS panels, in fact) to create unique designs. The idea is that you can arrange the lamp in whatever design you want, and so use it as a chandelier, desk lamp, wall lamp and any other arrangement you can think of.

The basic building block is a square that contains either one circular ORBEOS OLED panel or four LEDs. The square block is about 5 square inches in size (and less than 1/8 of an inch thick).

We just got word from OSRAM that the PirOLED lamp costs €9,800, and will start shipping on November 15th. You can already order it today. The lamp uses both LED and OLED lighting: 5 ORBEOS OLED panels and 5 LED lamps.

Update: the PirOLED will ship on November 15th, and will cost €9,800.

OSRAM is introducing a new OLED lamp, the PirOLED. It actually uses both LED and OLED lighting: 5 ORBEOS OLED panels and 5 LED lamps (OSRAM OSLON LCW CP7P). Light intensity is up to 300 Lux.

The PirOLED is already shipping, but we do not know the price.

LEDON OLED Lighting unveiled their first OLED Lighting products back in April 2009, and now we hear that the Luceos modules (which are based on OSRAM's ORBEOS panels) will start shipping next month (as engineering samples). Volume delivery is planned for the beginning of 2011 (LEDON obviously depends on OSRAM's production capacity).

LEDON says that the Luceos modules now include the driving electronics and the whole package is thinner than 4mm. They offer two dimming options: a pulse-width modulation and a complete DMX512 dimming, which should allow for a large-wall of elements setup that can easily address the brightness of each module.

Osram is building an OLED Lighting production line in Regensburg, Germany. The company will invest 50 million euros (around $70 million) in the production facility (it will have about 200 employees initially) and in research on LED applications. Commissioning of the production line is scheduled for mid-2011.

OSRAM ORBEOS

The company research will focus on the manufacturing process of the production line, and also in brightness, efficiency and lifetime of the OLED panels.

Lumiotec started shipping their OLED Lighting kits back in February 2010. We were finally able to get our hands on one, and here's our hands-on review. We have already reviewed the Philips Lumiblade and the OSRAM ORBEOS panels, and we'll compare them all in this review.