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It turns out that Philps are also working on transparent OLED lighting. They have published a beautiful image of their protoype:

Transparent OLEDs by Philips

Several companies are exhibiting new OLED lighting panels at the Lighting Fair 2009, in Tokyo.

Japan's Research Institute for Organic Electronics (RIOE) showed an OLED panel with 5,000cd/m2 luminance and only 15W power consumption (that's 15lm/W, like a incandescent bulb). They also showed a transparent OLED window (70% transparent).

RIOE transparent OLED window

Lumiotec, the Japanese joint-venture, had 1.9mm thick OLED panels on show. They actually plan to start making samples of those devices by fall 2009. 

Lumiotec thin OLED panel

Panasonic actually displayed an even thinner panel - only 1mm. They think that OLED lighting will be ready within 2 years, but it will take much longer (10 years) for it to be used main lighting.

Panasonic OLED lighting panel

Philips exhibited their Lumiblade OLED panels. They recently built a new plant in Aachen, Germany, to make those panels.  

Philips Lumiblade OLED panel prototype

A week ago we reported that Philips is going to release a new 'secret' TV.

There were rumors that it will be an OLED TV, but it ain't so - Engadget reports that the new TV is an ultra-widescreen (21:9 ratio, that's cinema-proportion) LCD.

Update - it turns out that the new "secret" TV is not an OLED, but an ultra-widescreen 21:9 LCD.

Techradar reports that Philips will unveil a new TV in January 29th. Philips say that the TV "truly offers something new and is genuinely like nothing you've seen before".

Techradar also say that there are rumors that Philips are working on a "secret" OLED TV. we'll wait and see!

Applied Materials, which made its name by designing equipment for semiconductor makers and television manufacturers, is bulking up to become the chief equipment maker for the greentech industry.

The company is building up an internal group to sell equipment to manufacturers of energy storage devices, such as batteries and fuel cells, say sources close to the company.

Applied also wants to sell equipment to manufacturers of OLEDS. The company is one of the charter members of the European OPAL 2008, which aims to develop cheap OLED lights. Other members include Aixtron, Osram, Philips and BASF. It also has an investment in Plextronics.

Philips electronics is now offering a "starter-kit" for OLED Lighting. It is aimed at lighting designers, architects and artists f- ro them to discover how OLEDs are gonna change the lighting world.

The Kit includes some samples of various shapes, structures and colors, and DVD an information pack with explanation of the tech and possible applications.

Philips say that their OLEDs will 'shortly' become commercially available, in fact they are aiming for 2009. The products will be marketed under the name of Lumiblade, and will include panels up to 50 square cm, in several shares and colors.

The companies behind the OLLA project (Philips, OSRAM, Siemens, Novaled and Franhofer IPMS) agreed to fund another OLED lighting project - the OLED100.eu, a follow-up project.

The new project will start on September 2008, for 3 years. The budget is $30 million, $20 million out of which will come from the EU.

At the end of the project period, the OLLA project consortium presents its final milestone: the basic technology for a white OLED light source, with an efficacy of 50.7 lumens per watt at an initial brightness of 1.000 cd/m² based on the Novaled PIN OLED technology. The OLLA project is a joint basic research consortium, headed by Philips Lighting.

The OLED technology is generating a novel and very attractive class of solid-state light sources, which are flat, thin, and very lightweight. Due to its freedom of design, OLED lighting technology offers many possibilities for new lighting applications achieving substantial energy savings. Within OLLA 24 partners of 8 European countries have been working closely together developing OLED technology for lighting purposes with the goal to reach an efficacy of 50 lumens per watt combined with a lifetime of over 10.000 hours at 1.000 cd/m2 initial brightness.

Philips Research and Novaled, together with the partners reached the project targets in efficacy, color rendering and brightness. The lifetime of the Novaled device even exceeded the promised value by one order of magnitude.

The Novaled PIN technology has the potential to further improve the power efficiency. It’s in line with the technology roadmap that in the near future some 100 lm/W OLEDs will be achievable, adds Dr. Martin Vehse from Novaled.

Collecting all light of the device in a laboratory set-up with a macro extractor, we measure even more than 80 lumens per Watt, comments Dr. Volker van Elsbergen,
Philips Research, the achievement. "This shows that one of the keys to higher efficiencies will be better light outcoupling technologies. \

Besides the record values listed above, the OLLA project delivered the first large sized ITO-free OLEDs, the first large-area printed OLEDs and several ICT demonstrators. All demonstrators were on show last Thursday on a public event in Eindhoven.

Philips, Osram Opto Semiconductors, Siemens, Novaled and Fraunhofer IPMS will continue the development of OLED lighting technology in a follow-up project. Within this new OLED100.eu project, the efficiency, lifetime and size of OLEDs will further increased.

The final symposium of the OLLA OLED lighting project took place on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven Netherlands 12.6.08 with about 80 attending the exhibition and about 60 attending the half day conference. The objective is to start the work that will lead to replacement of many of the "6 billion lights that the world buys every year". Presentations from OLLA, Siemens, Novaled, Fraunhofer IPMS, Philips Lighting OLED Development and Royal Philips Electronics and the exhibition alongside revealed that the objectives had been met or exceeded. These objectives embraced laboratory demonstration of sharply improved life for 1000 cd/m2 emission and larger panel size etc, compared to what was available when the project was conceived five years ago.

Polymer OLEDs, despite being printable, were bypassed early on to concentrate on glass sandwiches of small molecule OLEDs. Here, phosphorescent layers exhibited poor life so the long life Novaled PIN OLED construction was favored. All this had echoes of Philips earlier abandoning P-OLEDs on the same campus.

OSRAM and Philips have signed a patent crosslicense agreement covering optoelectronic semiconductors. The agreement involves the mutual licensing of patents for all inorganic and organic LED.

The agreement relates to patents held by Philips, including the US subsidiary Lumileds, and by OSRAM including its subsidiary OSRAM Opto Semiconductors.