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development of the technology has been rapid,’ advertising billboards, in vehicle dashboards and
comments Cobb. ‘Intense research has resulted windscreen heads-up displays.
in OLED polymer lifetimes being increased ‘Possibly the best aspect of all is the potential to
dramatically in a relatively short period and it must realise all these advances and achieve greater energy
be assumed that this development will continue.’ effi ciencies at the same time. When scaled up to
Hamamatsu’s Owens states: ‘The potential domestic and industrial mass-markets, OLEDs
exists for OLED displays to become ubiquitous could help us all to make a meaningful contribution
– on laptops where the screen merges into the to reducing the global environmental effects of our
keyboard in one piece of folding plastic, on TVs increasingly power-hungry lifestyles.’
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A further application of organic LEDs the operational lifetime and 10 times the
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is the creation of power-effi cient white substrate size.
Biomedical
light sources. ‘The potential for OLED Hans Driessen, senior communications
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lighting seems strong and the concept manager, at Philips, part of OLED100.
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any aesthetic shape offers designers the not yet powerful enough to provide full
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European Community’s Seventh Framework as effi cient large light sources.
Programme, is a continuation of the OLLA ‘The OLED lighting technology has unique
(Organic LEDs for Lighting Applications) opportunities that will enable whole new
programme, which began in October 2004 applications for lighting,’ states Driessen.
more optics
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and concluded in June 2008. Transparent OLEDs are one example, which
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The conclusion of the OLLA project, would allow OLED panels to function as
funded by the IST programme of the ordinary windows during the day and then
European Commission’s Sixth Framework, morph into panels of light after dark. A
saw the development of the basic further example that Driessen notes is
om
technology for a white OLED light source the potential production of fl exible and
with an effi cacy of 50.7 lumens per watt mouldable OLED lighting panels. ‘This
at an initial brightness of 1,000cd/m² and means that in the future almost any surface
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