So-Light
Update: in Janury 2013 the so-light project successfully concluded, results published
Update: in Janury 2013 the so-light project successfully concluded, results published
ONE-P (Organic Nanomaterials for Electronics and Photonics: Design, Synthesis, Characterisation, Processing, Fabrication and Applications) is a collaboration of 28 organizations, funded mostly by the EU Commission 7th framework programme (18M euro out of 26M).
The project has several objectives in the area of organic semiconductors. One of them is the development of a new generation of light emitter materials for OLED architectures and light-emitting field-effects transistors.
The PrintOLED (Printed Organic Light-Emitting Diodes) project was established to develop a concept large-area homogenous coating of organic functional materials from solution. The project investigate several technologies (such as gravure, inkjet printing, slot-die coating and others). When the projected ended, the partners demonstrated OLEDs with homogeneously coated active areas of 10 cm2 and 27 cm2 by classic gravure printing and slot die coating (at least two of the layers were processed from solution).
LILi (Light InLine) is a 3-year project started at July 2009 with an aim to develop processes to lower the cost of manufacturing large-area and efficient OLED Lighting for general illumination applications.. The partners are Merck, Applied Materials and the Braunschweig University of Technology.
The total cost of the project is about 7.5 million euros (just over $11 million). Almost half is provided by the German government, and the rest by the companies themselves.
NEMO (NEw Materials for OLEDs from solutions) is an EU project that focused on new emitting systems based on soluble small molecules with long lifetime and efficiency. NEMO was led be four companies (coordinated by Merck) and seven research and academic institutions (including the Fraunhofer institute).
Project TOPLESS (Thin Organic Polymeric Light Emitting Semi-conductor Surfaces) is a three year £3.3M project, sponsored by the UK government (50%). It comprises a consortium of Thorn Lighting (UK largest lighting company), Sumation UK and the University of Durham (Department of Physics and Chemistry).
The aim of the project is to product a high quality white light generating single polymer, and efficient large area single pixel device architectures.
Hypoled - High-Performance OLED-Microdisplays for Mobile Multimedia HMD and Projection Applications, is a joint project lead by the Fraunhofer IPMS.
iStar (interactive See-Through Augmented Displays) is a Fraunhofer collaborative project that aims to make displays for interactive Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs). As part of the project, the Fraunhofer IPMS is working on bi-directional OLED microdisplays - that includes a camera integrated into the display (a photodiode between each OLED pixel).
ROLLEX means Roll-to-roll production of highly efficient light-emitting diodes on flexible substrates. The project members (Franhofer Institute, Novaled, Philips and others) developed ways to make flexible OLED lighting devices using roll-to-roll printing technologies.
The project was completed on April 2010, and the companies has announced a follow-up project (ROLLEX 2).
OLED100.eu is a follow-on project of OLLA (which ended in June 2008). The companies (Philips, OSRAM, Siemens, Novaled and the Franhofer IPMS) agreed to fund another OLED lighting project.