University of Utah physicists invented a new “spintronic” organic light-emitting diode, or OLED, that promises to be brighter, cheaper and more environmentally friendly than the kinds of LEDs now used in television and computer displays, lighting, traffic lights and numerous electronic devices. “It’s a completely different ...
Lumiotec Inc., a company specializing in organic light-emitting diode (OLED) lighting panels, will ship commercially produced OLED lighting panels that achieve the world's highest color rendering index of Ra93 beginning in August 2012. The OLED panels are capable of revealing red tones and human skin colors, which has heretofore been an industry ...
With the help of Panasonic LED and OLED lighting fixtures, the Japanese Ministry of the Environment is slashing overall energy use at a public train station by 25 percent—with a 40 percent reduction in lighting energy alone. It’s all part of a pilot community development program called the Smart Station Project taking place at Jiyugaoka ...
With 40 years in the high-tech industry, including many as a successful entrepreneur, Barry Young started the OLED Association in 2007. The group has about 15 members across the globe: display manufacturers plus companies producing OLED panels, substrates, and materials, as well as associated manufacturing equipment. As Managing Director of the ...
Novaled, a leader in the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) field, has entered into a licensing and purchase agreement with Samsung Mobile Display (SMD), the global leader in the OLED display industry. As part of the agreement, SMD has committed to purchase dopant materials used in the transport layers of its AMOLED display modules from Novaled ...
It’s no longer news that LED technology dominates advances in the lighting industry and, consequently, the most advanced products displayed at Lightfair international 2012 (LFI). But the directions the technology takes us… will we continue to shoehorn LEDs into existing shaped and ceiling plans? Or will the unique form factors and operating ...
At the Lightfair International 2012 Tradeshow and Conference, Acuity Brands, Inc. showcased two new OLED luminaire designs, Canvis and Trilia, which will be offered by Winona Lighting. Both of the new lighting series explore the advanced design and performance capabilities of OLED technology, featuring unique configurations and applications ...
Holst Centre, an independent open-innovation R&D center that develops generic technologies for wireless sensor technologies and flexible electronics, has been extremely successful in the 2011 rounds of funding applications under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Five collaborative projects won funding, four of which ...
The US Department of Energy has published the April 2012 edition of the Solid-State Lighting R&D Multi-Year Program Plan (MYPP). The report provides a description of the activities the department plans to undertake over the next several years to implement its SSL mission, and informs the development of annual SSL R&D funding ...
June 13–14, 2012 San Jose, CA The DOE Solid-State Lighting (SSL) Manufacturing R&D Initiative was created in 2009 to forge government-industry partnerships focused on a common goal: to reduce the cost and improve the quality of SSL products. A related goal is to foster a significant US role for SSL manufacturing—creating jobs and ...