I believe OLED will be the next star of the lighting industry

Lighting industry is a huge market, following the current LED, OLED believe that the lighting industry will be the next star. However, the new technology can not avoid the shackles of high cost, as well as luminous efficiency is still lagging behind to LED, so OLED technology in the glorious world, there is still some way to work hard. However, its technical advantages, in the lighting market in the future, leaving no small expectations.

OLED and LED are all solid state lighting technology, light emitting efficiency are greatly beyond the fluorescent lamp are widely used at present, and the advantages of no mercury, no UV, high color and light intensity can be adjusted, according to a new generation of lighting applications, so OLED has a dark horse strong into the lighting industry. But OLED is currently the biggest problem is still in the cost price is too expensive, it also makes OLED become a new lighting technology is praised.

According to the research firm DisplaySearch latest research report, OLED lighting market is expected to take off on 2011, the overall market value of OLED lighting, is expected to be between 2013 and 2014, beyond the passive matrix OLED display market, market size is expected to reach $6 billion in 2018.

Although the names of OLED and LED are similar, they are quite different in technology. OLED has several irreplaceable lighting advantages, such as OLED is a diffuse light source, so the light is relatively soft, and has a thin appearance. In addition, the use of flexible substrate, can be changed into different shapes, if the use of transparent electrodes, when the light is not turned on, such as glass. These characteristics make OLED lighting applications, will be more extensive than the existing technology.

As for the commercialization of OLED lighting schedule, OLED luminous efficiency is still low, and the cost is high, so there is no commercial products appear. It is expected that by 2015, OLED luminous efficiency will catch up with fluorescent tubes, but because of high prices, is expected to use OLED lighting will only account for 4% of the market share. Until 2020, due to OLED lighting brightness, luminous efficiency, price, etc. will be close to LED, the lighting market can be widely accepted, then the market size will reach $8 billion, accounting for about 10% of the overall lighting market.

At present, including Europe, the United States and Japan and other countries, have invested heavily in research and development of OLED lighting technology manufacturers. Although OLED has a display into mass production for decades, but the current OLED lighting is still just a small sample of shipments, this is because both the OLED display and OLED lighting application problems caused by their face in different areas. It is expected that by 2018, the OLED lighting market will have six major applications, including automotive lighting, display backlight, decoration / general lighting, health care and industry, advertising and advertising market. DisplaySearch also estimates that by 2011, many manufacturers will be officially mass production of OLED lighting products, including PHILPS, OSRAM, general electric, KonicaMinolta and Lumiotec and the company.