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OSRAM's ORBEOS white OLED panel has won the Electron d'Or award for product of the year in the Opto/Display category. ElectroniqueS is France's leading professional journal for the electronics industry and has already awarded the Electron d’Or prize 13 times.

OSRAM has released the ORBEOS in November 2009, and were kind enough to send us a sample for a hands-on review.

E2M Technology is introducing two OLED lighting kits based on OLED panels made by Philips and OSRAM. The first kit is called White Amethyst, and includes a 4cmx4cm Philips' Lumiblade white square panel (like the one we reviewed a while back). The kit includes one OLED panel, a driver and PC software (which can alter the lights luminosity level and program lighting sequences for up to four OLEDs via USB port). The kit also includes an on-board light sensor. It costs £459. Here's a sample art-piece that E2M is showing, using the White Amethyst kit:

The second kit is called White Sapphire, and this one is based around OSRAM's ORBEOS panel (here's our review of the ORBEOS). The ORBEOS is larger (a circle, 79mm diameter) than the Philips' square panel. The kit is otherwise pretty much the same, with the same driver and software. It costs £609.

WAC lighting is introducing a new OLED chandelier that uses OSRAM's ORBEOS OLED Panels. The new lamp is called SOL, and it is aimed for the luxury market. The SOL chandelier is crafted of aluminum and finished in Black Nickel. It is 18.5 inches in diameter and mere 2 .2 inches tall. The overall height of the chandelier, with supporting metal rod, is 12.25 40 inches tall.

WAC lighting had some nice OLED Lighting prototypes back in May 2009, and it's great to see them come out with an OLED lamp product.

The kind folks over at Osram has sent us one of their new ORBEOS OLED Lighting panel for a review. The ORBEOS is a round (88mm diameter) glass panel that's only 2.1mm thick (it weights 24g). The efficiency is 25lm/W. The brightness of the panels is 1,000cd/m² with power input of less than a watt, and they should last around 5,000 hours. The panels are available now via OSRAM's
site, they cost €240 each. The panels were actually released back in November 2009, and OSRAM say that they are happy with the sales and interest so far.

OSRAM ORBEOS

Read on to see my impressions of this OLED panel, and how it compares to Philips' Lumiblade panels which were the first available OLED panels...

LEDON is showing their first OLED lighting modules prototypes. There are two series, the LUREON and the LUCEOS. The LUREON consists on rectangular OLED modules, fabricated in cooperation with the Fraunhofer IPMS, with element dimensions of 100x100 and 100x50 mm², which can be easily combined to large area lighting by an
integrated electrical bus system. The LUCEOS module series offers a hexagonal
module system based on Osram's ORBEOS CDW-031 OLEDs.

LEDON OLED Lighting modules photo

LEDON say that the modules include an electrical and data bus system for maximum flexibility in large areas. The system bus can be configured to support DALI or DMX bus systems and allows the simple and robust connection between the different sub elements.

LEDON OLED Lighting was created back in 2009 as a joint-venture between the Fraunhofer Institute and Zumtobel.

PPML (together with OSRAM) will show two new OLED design demonstrators at the Light+Building 2010 fair (April 11st, Frankfurt, Germany). The designs use standard ORBEOS OLED Lighting panels, and also new transparent panels (both made by OSRAM). The designs have been derived from concepts received under the OLED Design Contest (organized by the CombOLED project).

mOvement

The first design is called mOvement (by the designer Marco Pezzoli) is using a modular cell to create personalized lighting scenarios that can be used by retail stores and museums for the exhibition of products and art objects under a non-conventional lighting scenario. This particular piece (shown above) uses 90 ORBEOS panels.

o-Frame

The second piece is called o-Frame (by designer Federica Del Ponte) and uses a transparent OLED for a "luxury object" showcase box. When the box is closed, the OLED is off (transparent) and you can look inside. When you open, it lights up.

Ingo Maurer, who designed the world's first OLED lamp back in 2006 (using OSRAM's OLED Lighting panels) says they will soon show new OLED designs using transparent panels from Novaled and ORBEOS panels from OSRAM.

Update: We now have photos and more details on these OLED lamps...

Osram will exhibit a large room filled with Orbeos OLED Lighting panels. This installation was planned under the direction of Professor Andreas Schulz together with his team of the renowned lighting design office 'LichtKunstLicht'. The OLED panels 'float' in the room, in the walls, ceiling and floor. Visitors can enter the room and walk through this installation. 

The installation will be on show in the Light+Building exhibition in Frankfurt (April 11-16). Osram's Orbeos panels are round (88mm diameter), 2.1mm thick and weight 24g each (the efficiency is 25lm/W). The panels are available now on-line.

We've just got word from OSRAM, and it seems that they are happy with the ORBEOS OLED Lighting so far. Here's the official quote: "we have seen a very successfull start of our ORBEOS panel in November and we still see a high interest in this product".

OSRAM ORBEUS OLED Lighting panel

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has released their first OLED Lighting product, called the ORBEOS. It has a round surface (88mm diameter), is only 2.1mm thick and weights 24g. The efficiency is 25lm/W. The panels are actually available now via OSRAM's site.

OSRAM ORBEUS OLED Lighting panel

The temperature is warm white color (2,800K, CRI up to 80) like an incandescent lamp. The panel can be switched on and off without delay, and is continuously dimmable. It emits no UV or infrared radiation, and does not contain mercury. Its brightness level is usually 1,000cd/m² with power input of less than a watt. In ideal operating conditions it has a lifespan of around 5,000 hours. ORBEOS is available with a frosted glass surface.