Universal Display announced that they have been awarded another Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I $99,900 program from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Under
this program (titled Novel Optical
Enhancement for Thin
Phosphorescent OLED Lighting Panels) Universal Display intends to demonstrate a white
phosphorescent OLED lighting panel that meets Energy Star criteria
using
an optical enhancement technique which improves outcoupling
efficiency
while preserving the thin, elegant form factor of the white OLED
lighting panel.
Universal Display will
employ a
novel outcoupling technique that performs as well as thicker
treatments,
such as macro-extractors or outcoupling blocks, but is
significantly
thinner. Outcoupling enhancements are commonly used to increase
the
amount of light that is emitted as useful light. In addition to
maintaining its thin and light weight form factor, the resulting
white
PHOLED lighting panel, which UDC intends to deliver to the DOE,
may
improve the company’s previously reported lighting panel efficacy
results by over 25% and demonstrate a desirable path to meet the
Energy
Star Category B criteria for solid state lighting.
