Future OLED materials will be widely used in the field of lighting

Although the 2008 LED market is conservative, but the LED chip manufacturers R & D results have been encouraging still good results, after OSRAM (OSRAM) released in July 2008, the current high power LED luminous efficiency of 350mA has been successfully promoted after 136lm/W, CREE announced that the luminous efficiency of high power LED has reached 161lm/W, the highest level in the industry. According to 19 Cree announced LED luminous efficiency, LED size of 1mm, current 350mA high power LED at room temperature, luminous efficiency of 161lm/W, brightness of 173lm, color temperature of 46890k. Earlier Cree announced the luminous efficiency of 129lm/W, brightness of 135.5lm. At present, Cree can produce a maximum power of 107lm/W cold white LED and 87 lm/W warm white light. As for when the mass production of 161lm/W products, Cree did not disclose a detailed timetable.

High power LED and other international manufacturers at present is 1mm and the current 350mA in the size of the luminous efficiency results, Nichia (Nichia) up to 134lm/W; Lumileds 115lm/W. While Taiwan announced a leading manufacturer of crystal electric days before the data to 100ml/W, 2009 is expected to rise to 120lm/W; and the small size of the current 20mA is 120lm/W, the next target for 150lm/W. With the improvement of LED technology, LED luminous efficiency is also a record high, the industry believes that if the LED to cut into the main source of indoor lighting market, mass production target luminous efficiency of 150lm/W. All manufacturers are actively developing the 150lm/W target. Cree in general lighting market layout is quite positive, in addition to the luminous efficiency of breakthrough, also actively to reduce costs, increase production capacity to Cree next year will also be the wafer size from the existing 2 inches, 3 inches, 4 inches, 6 inches to advance.

In the indoor lighting products, next year, Cree will also introduce the use of all kinds of RGB LED mixed light colored LED lighting products. It is reported that in the fourth quarter of 2008, Cree's revenue in LED lighting has a growth rate of 140%, high power LED is the strongest growth momentum, Cree quite optimistic about the general lighting market. At present, Europe and the United States in the LED signal signs lighting has more than 70% market share, flashlight is as high as 75%. Landscape lighting market, white LED has also been successfully cut into the HID street lamp market.

San San - December 10th news, market research firm Nanomarket recently reported in the OLED Market Research report:

Recently, NOKIA acquired its suppliers to enhance the level of OLED, which indicates that OLED is on the eve of large-scale applications. GE's global R & D Center successfully developed roll-to-roll production process, suggesting that OLED lighting is likely to walk in front of the OLED display, the popularity of the earlier. SONY released the world's first OLED tv. The expansion of OLED lighting and display applications, is a good news for suppliers of related materials, because the large OLED panel will use more materials, while the current dominant OLED market is small items such as mobile phones and MP3.

In laboratory experiments, the lumen efficiency of OLED has exceeded that of fluorescent lamps, which is the next generation of solid lighting materials. With the whole world pay more attention to energy conservation, energy-saving OLED lighting will accelerate growth. By 2015, 90% of the OLED material will be used in lighting OLED.

Flexible platform, including a series of plastic film will quickly occupy a certain market share, roll-to-roll process will be more efficient. At the same time, OLED devices will be more lightweight, providing designers with greater flexibility in design, can be placed on the flexible platform.

The ability of companies to develop and commercially integrate OLED materials is increasing. This means that after the lighting and display OLED materials can be purchased in a single buyer. In addition, a number of large manufacturers such as DuPont Co, Merck Co and Sumitomo chemical contribute to the stable supply of OLED materials.

Nevertheless, many innovative small companies still have enough room for development, such as Novaled. With the expansion of the market, more market opportunities will be open to those companies that manufacture special OLED applications.