This advanced light source is particularly easy to use if it is integrated into special modules. These OLED modules have a frame made from either aluminum or high-quality transparent plastic. Their main advantage is that all necessary electronics are also located inside that frame, thus allowing fascinating lighting applications to be implemented quickly and simply.

A modified version of these modules, which incorporates four Lumiblade OLEDs into a single frame, was used to create the world’s largest OLED luminaire in a Berlin office building. This breathtaking installation contains 384 Lumiblade OLEDs―equivalent to over 2.4m² of the new lighting technology. It is the only one of its kind in the world.

The luminaire measures around seven meters from floor to ceiling. 24 square frames, each made up of four type CN4 Lumiblade modules with four OLEDs, hang on fine steel cables and are distributed equally across the entire length of the installation. The frames themselves do not only emit light upwards, but their undersides also reflect the light of the underlying OLEDs. In the center of the lighting frames, a dichroic glass panel runs along at the same height as the luminaire. This glass (known as color effect glass) changes color depending on ambient light or the angle from which it is viewed. It therefore offers a unique spectrum of colors, depending on which direction the luminaire is viewed from.

“We see the LED as the future of spotlights and the OLED as the future of surface lighting. With Philips we have found a supplier that already has a tried and tested production process for OLEDs in place. Moreover, as the single source supplier for the luminaire, Philips enabled us to simplify our planning process”, says Professor Volker von Kardorff, whose planning office designed this modern and unique OLED chandelier.

The decision to use OLEDs was based on their ability to light up entire surfaces and on their pleasant and tasteful light, which can be continuously dimmed. In close cooperation with the lighting planners, the experts at Philips delivered both the actual OLEDs and the requisite technology tailored to the dimensions of the installation.

About Kardorff Ingenieure Lichtplanung
Kardorff Ingenieure Lichtplanung is one of Germany’s leading lighting design companies. Light influences the appearance of every room and every surface, and therefore also impacts the atmospheres and moods of daily life. “First understand, then illuminate” is the philosophy that characterizes the company’s work and that engenders an intense relationship with the surroundings, the architecture and the use. Founded in 1997, the company is managed by Gabriele and Professor Volker von Kardorff. The experienced team is based in Berlin and comprises 16 architects and engineers with varying specialist areas and originating from four continents. As an independent planning office, it works on projects from the concept development stage right through to completion.

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Imagine owning a television with the thickness and weight of a sheet of paper. It will be possible, someday, thanks to the growing industry of printed electronics. The process, which allows manufacturers to literally print or roll materials onto surfaces to produce an electronically functional device, is already used in organic solar cells and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) that form the displays of cellphones.

Although this emerging technology is expected to grow by tens of billions of dollars over the next 10 years, one challenge is in manufacturing at low cost in ambient conditions. In order to create light or energy by injecting or collecting electrons, printed electronics require conductors, usually calcium, magnesium or lithium, with a low-work function. These metals are chemically very reactive. They oxidize and stop working if exposed to oxygen and moisture. This is why electronics in solar cells and TVs, for example, must be covered with a rigid, thick barrier such as glass or expensive encapsulation layers.

However, in new findings published in the journal Science, Georgia Tech researchers have introduced what appears to be a universal technique to reduce the work function of a conductor. They spread a very thin layer of a polymer, approximately one to 10 nanometers thick, on the conductor’s surface to create a strong surface dipole. The interaction turns air-stable conductors into efficient, low-work function electrodes.

The commercially available polymers can be easily processed from dilute solutions in solvents such as water and methoxyethanol.

“These polymers are inexpensive, environmentally friendly and compatible with existent roll-to-roll mass production techniques,” said Bernard Kippelen, director of Georgia Tech’s Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE). “Replacing the reactive metals with stable conductors, including conducting polymers, completely changes the requirements of how electronics are manufactured and protected. Their use can pave the way for lower cost and more flexible devices.”

To illustrate the new method, Kippelen and his peers evaluated the polymers’ performance in organic thin-film transistors and OLEDs. They’ve also built a prototype: the first-ever, completely plastic solar cell.

“The polymer modifier reduces the work function in a wide range of conductors, including silver, gold and aluminum,” noted Seth Marder, associate director of COPE and professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. “The process is also effective in transparent metal-oxides and graphene.”

OLEDs fascinate visitors at LUMINALE 2012 at the Palmengarten in Frankfurt a.M.

Area luminaires in exclusive and trendy design variants equipped with OLED light sources fascinate the visitors at the Palmengarten in Frankfurt. COMEDD (Centre for Organic Materials and Electronic Devices Dresden, branch of Fraunhofer IPMS) presents a selection of OLED luminaires during the LUMINALE 2012 (concurrently evening event with Light & Building 2012 trade show) to interested users, designers and manufacturers of luminaires. These luminaires are results of the collaboration with such renowned companies as Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau, but also with designers as Irena Kilibarda. They show in an impressively way first design variants of these enchanting lighting technology and totally new applications, like dynamic light.

Prof. Karl Leo, director of COMEDD, is excited: »We at COMEDD are able to satisfy almost every wish of our customers with regards to different colors and shapes of the OLEDs. For example even transparent areas are possible, which are luminaires when switched on.«

Prof. Karl Leo and two other scientists has been awarded with the Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2011 (awarded by the German Federal President) for the research and development of organic materials.

OLEDs consist of thin layers deposited at glass or foil. The organic materials are carbonates similar to automotive coatings or colors at street signs.

By combining cutting-edge OLED technology and mechatronics, light fixture manu­facturer Selux and ART+COM have opened a new chapter in lighting. The two partners now present the first results of their exploration into kinetic luminaires from April 15th to 20th at the Light+Bulding in Frankfurt  – a filigree OLED-­based fixture named Manta Rhei silently floating in space while continually changing its appearance.

Its 1.2m x 2.4m body housing 140 paper-thin Tridonic OLED modules combines light scenes and movement patterns into a series of carefully designed individual choreo­graphies. One such choreo­graphy brings to mind the gentle movement of the manta ray. Thanks to the use of custom-built intelligent control technology the overall quantity of light emitted from the fixture remains constant. The result is a fascinating combination of light control and kinetics.

Through the interplay of mechanic motions and dynamic light animations classical fixture typology is expanded. As a next step, and based on the initial concept study Manta Rhei, a family of kinetic luminiaires will be developed.

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Samsung recently filed for a trademark on “YOUM” and has now updated its website referring to its flexible AMOLED technology as YOUM. Samsung also filed for trademarks on WAMOLED, FAMOLED, PAMOLED, and TAMOLED.

Samsung’s display does not consist of any glass; rather it is comprised of TFT Film, an Organic Layer, an Encap Film, and a Polariser. Samsung describes YOUM as “thinner, lighter, and unbreakable.”

While we’re sure the “unbreakable” part could probably be challenged, it is still a product that will be very interesting see come to market. Now that Samsung has finally named its creation, we hope that it is close to integrating YOUM into some upcoming gadgets.

Tridonic attended Light+Building 2012 in Frankfurt as well, like many other OLED companies. Tridonic showed their OLED modules, like Luceos ROP, Lureon REM and Lureon REP. Take a look at the booth with the OLED products.

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Osram attended the Lighting Fair in Frankfurt and had different booths. They showed us different OLED lamps and creations.

Form follows freedom.

OLED is pure fascination. No cooling elements, no lens and no reflector – the ultra-flat organic light diodes are light its purest form. As a Pure Light Player OSRAM covers the entire value-added chain for OLED in this future-oriented field. From panels through modules up to and including lights.

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Glen Allen, VA (PRWEB) March 29, 2012  Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has announced the release of its latest report, “OLED Lighting Market Forecast Q2 2012.”  In the report NanoMarkets presents its outlook on the OLED lightingsector with some notable changes since its last release in 2011.   The firm notes concerns with the current economic situation in Europe which is a major center for OLED lighting as well as changes in manufacturing that will dampen prices in the short term but open the door to wider acceptance of the technology as OLED lighting efficiency, panel size and light output improvements bring the technology to the mainstream.   NanoMarkets now expects that the total market for OLED lighting luminaires will reach approximately $6.3 billion in 2017.

Additional details about this and other OLED related reports are available at: http://www.nanomarkets.net/oled_lighting

About the Report:

This report provides eight-year forecasts for OLED lighting in six different applications: purchases by lighting designers; luxury lighting; major installations in showrooms, tradeshows, etc.; residential lighting; commercial/industrial lighting; and automotive lighting.  Forecasts are presented in both revenue terms ($ millions) and volume terms (units/square meters sold).  In addition, the report contains qualitative forecasts of future opportunities for OLEDs in such areas as personal illumination products, signage, industrial lighting and novelty products.

The forecasts in this report are based on NanoMarkets’ insider understanding of OLED lighting demand patterns, but are backed up by matching projected demand against the plans of major OLED lighting panel suppliers to build manufacturing capacity.  Among the firms discussed in this context are AUO, First-o-Lite, GE, Jusung Engineering, Kaneka, Konica Minolta, LG, Lumiotec, Moser Baer, NEC, Osram, Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer/Mitsubishi, Samsung and Visionox.

From the Report:

While NanoMarkets sees the overall prospects for the OLED lighting market as remaining strong, we now expect to see a major decline in OLED prices in the next two years as mass production technologies start to be applied to this kind of lighting.  This pricing trend is expected to dampen OLED lighting revenues for the next three years until OLED lighting efficiency, panel size and light output have improved to the point where OLED lighting is acceptable in mainstream—and mass market—residential and business lighting markets.

In particular, NanoMarkets believes that OLED lighting has the potential to seriously compete with the standard fluorescent lighting panels widely used in offices through improved energy efficiency, lower costs and improved aesthetics.  And by 2017 NanoMarkets expects that more than 75 percent of revenues for OLED luminaires will come from lighting for commercial and industrial buildings.  In 2012, almost 90 percent of OLED sales for lighting applications will come from niche markets such as luxury lighting, large showroom installations and sales to lighting designers.  But by 2017 that share will have fallen to under 1 percent.

NanoMarkets has lowered its penetration forecasts for OLED lighting compared to the forecasts it published in 2011 due to weaker than expected economic growth throughout the eight-year forecast period.  NanoMarkets is particularly concerned about the impact of Europe’s ongoing monetary woes on the OLED lighting market.  OLED lighting market is very Eurocentric with most of the important suppliers based in Europe and Europe’s importance to advanced lighting technology.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized worldwide leader in industry analysis and forecasts of this kind.

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets’ reports and other services.

Second the Eleaf OLED. They did a good job by using the OLED panels in a regular bedroom. You can see the warm white color of the OLED lighting with 30lm/W.

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