The DOE is giving 21M$ for several companies to research advanced lighting. OLED is one such technologies. Here's a list of OLED projects getting funded:
- Add-Vision : Low-Cost, High Efficiency Polymer OLEDs Based on Stable p-i-n Device Architecture. This project seeks to develop a polymer OLED (P-OLED) lamp technology using advanced material synthesis and a modified device architecture to enable large-scale manufacturing of robust P-OLED lamps.
Project Value: $ 2,010,076
Estimated DOE contribution: up to $ 1,567,858 - DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, WA): Charge Balance in Blue Electrophosphorescent Devices. This project seeks to develop new organic phosphine oxide electron transporting/hole blocking materials in combination with ambipolar phosphine oxide host materials for achieving charge balanced blue phosphorescent OLED system, a necessary component of white OLEDs.
Project Value: $ 1,783,000
- Arkema Inc. (King of Prussia, PA): Application of Developed Atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition (APCVD) Transparent Conducting Oxides and Undercoat Technologies for Economical OLED Lighting. This project seeks to develop a commercially viable process for an OLED substrate, which would consist of the actual substrate of soda lime glass, a barrier undercoat, and a transparent conducting oxide.
Project Value: $ 2,626,632Estimated
DOE contribution: up to $ 2,101,305 - Universal Display Corporation (Ewing, NJ): Development of High Efficacy, Low-Cost Phosphorescent OLED Lighting Luminaire. This project seeks to develop high efficiency OLED lighting luminaires as part of an integrated ceiling illumination system.
Project Value: $ 2,662,489
Estimated DOE contribution: up to $ 1,905,467
Posted: Feb 13,2008 by Ron Mertens