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Two DOE Grants Awarded for SSL Technology
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science has awarded two Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants (Phase I Release 3) targeting advances in solid-state lighting (SSL) technology. Applied Nanotech, Inc. and Universal Display Corporation will each explore the technical merit or feasibility of an innovative concept or technology. ...
OLED Lighting Materials Market $2.8B by 2019
Industry Analyst firm NanoMarkets issued a new report on the OLED lighting materials market: OLED Lighting Materials Market Forecast 2013. The firm projects that the OLED lighting materials market will surpass $1.3 billion in revenues in 2018 as OLED lighting moves beyond luxury luminaires and designer kits and into larger, general illumination ...
German Museum Introduces OLEDs and Novaled Founders to the Public
There has been a permanent exhibition on the Deutscher Zukunftspreis at the Deutsches Museum since 2006. Since then over 1 million visitors have viewed the 10 most-recent award-winning projects and the “Hall of Fame” of the prizewinners. The newest exhibit for the prizewinning team from 2011 was unveiled at the museum in September: Organic ...
First UL Bi-National Lighting Standard Is for OLED Panels
UL (Underwriters Laboratories) published the First Edition of the Standard for Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) Panels, ANSI/UL 8752 - CAN/ULC-S8752, this summer. The bi-national standard was co-published by UL and ULC Standards. The standard received ANSI and SCC approval, making it the national standard for both the United States and ...
Universal Display Purchases Fujifilm OLED Patents for $105M
Universal Display Corporation, the leading OLED patent licensor and supplier of materials and technologies for energy-efficient OLED displays and lighting, and Fujifilm Corporation announced in July that Fujifilm has sold and Universal Display has purchased the entire worldwide patent portfolio of more than 1200 OLED patents and patent ...
Merck Concludes NEMO Research on OLED Materials
After 3 years of intensive research in the field of new solution-processable materials for OLEDs (organic light-emitting diodes), Merck and ten other partners from industry and academia have successfully concluded the "new materials for OLEDs from solutions" (NEMO) project co-funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). ...
DOE Updates SSL Roadmap for 2012
The U.S. Department of Energy has published the 2012 edition of the Solid-State Lighting Manufacturing R&D Roadmap, and has posted the summary report from the fourth annual SSL Manufacturing R&D Workshop, held in San Jose, California in June. Complementing the SSL R&D Multi-Year Program Plan (MYPP) that guides the Core and Product ...
OSRAM Launches OLED Pilot Production
With the launch of the pilot production line for organic light emitting diodes (OLED) in Regensburg, Germany, on 30 August, leading light manufacturer OSRAM AG has set an important milestone on the road toward volume manufacturing. As a result of its scope of possibilities and its quality criteria, the plant is unique and the first of its kind ...
Plextronics & Holst Centre Partner on Flex OLED Lighting
Plextronics, a US-based global technology company specializing in printed electronics, and Netherlands-based Holst Centre, an open-innovation initiative by imec (Flanders, Belgium) and TNO (The Netherlands), announced their partnership on shared research towards flexible organic light emitting diode (OLED) lighting and signage. With its leading ...