Researchers and Engineers at Florida University are working on OLED white light, funded by the US Department of Energy. They have successfully built a blue OLED with a 50lm/w efficiency.
The final target for the project is 100lm/w.
Plextronics announced today that its conductive ink has been shown to improve the performance of certain PLED devices.
Two years ago we reported about a new treatment for skin cancer using OLEDs, being researched in the UK. Now we are hearing that it is progressing well. A new company called Lumicure was encorporated, to develop the technology. They got around 5M$ VC funding in early 2008, and are "making excellent progress".
Lumicure hopes to get their product on the market at Q4 2009. They are also working on a light-source for curing acne.
The research team at GE has put together a cool OLED christmas tree. The OLEDs were made by a roll-to-roll fabrication. The OLED is 6 inch wide, by 15 feet. Here's a nice video of the tree:
Anit Duggal, who's leading GE OLED program said - We’re making great progress toward hitting the metrics needed to successfully introduce OLED lighting to market. We continue to make steady advances in efficiency, lifetime, and lighting-quality using device structures that can be made with roll-to-roll manufacturing, so that we’ll be able to introduce OLED lighting at an affordable price.
We also got a nice high resolution picture of the tree:
Samsung Electronics has developed a new Amorphous Oxide TFT technology, which can be used widely to next generation display semiconductor devices - LCDs, AMOLEDs, solar cells, LEDs and sensors, flexible and transparent displays, and more.
Samsung changed the existing single channel structure into channel structure, which resulted in faster electron movement (3 times faster than existing tech). This means that the screen quality is improved.
We recently had the pleasure of interviewing Mr. Steven Van Slyke (R&D directory) and Dr. Yuan-Sheng Tyan, a Research Fellow from Kodak's OLED systems. We talked about OLED lighting, what is Kodak's plan for this market, and how they see OLED lighting in the future. We also got a nice new prototype image from them (to the right).
Kodak also has some updates on their white light research - just 6 months after reporting 55lm/W efficiency, Kodak are now saying they have fabricated new devices that exceed 60lm/W. It seems like OLED lighting is really advancing quickly now.
Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) will develop a new technology to make OLED backplanes, together with Semprius. The new tech will be integrated into CDT's 14-inch development line at Godmanchester campus, near Cambridge, UK.
Semprius has a technology for semiconductor printing, and the two companies will use the technology in the manufacturing of OLED backplanes.
Universal Display Corporation and SFC from Koea announced today that the companies have entered into a strategic business agreement to develop and commercialize highly-efficient phosphorescent OLED material systems.
Based on Universal Display’s proprietary UniversalPHOLED technology, Universal Display will support SFC’s development and marketing of phosphorescent hosts and other non-emitter materials that are matched to Universal Display’s phosphorescent OLED emitter materials. The companies will market and sell their respective materials that result from the collaboration. As part of the arrangement, SFC will transfer certain existing phosphorescent emitter materials to Universal Display, including manufacturing and sales of these materials.
The TOPLESS project is showing today a white-light OLED desk lamp. The lamp is built from 5 panels. Each one is 0.7mm thick, and they are made by Sumation UK with TOPLESS materials.
Currently we just have a couple of photos of the panels themselves, We'll have photos of the lamp and information soon. More info on TOPLESS can be found in our June interview with Dr. Geoff Williams, the project's manager.
A new AMOLED display center is announced in Shanghai - SVEDF. This is a joint venture of SVA Electron company and Shanghai University.
The center aim is to build an AMOLED R&D and trial production line. They hope to raise about 250M$ to build a real production line, capable or making 1.8" to 7" AMOLEDs by 2010. By 2015 they plan to make even larger displays.
The center will be working with several scientific and technological projects based in China, from companies and government sources.
