OLED is accelerating into the homes of ordinary people is the price barrier

Now known as the LED bulbs, in addition to energy consumption, the service life can be up to 20 years, in the previous wave of energy-saving emission reduction under great attention. Now there is a newer technology OLED lighting panel, not only wider color gamut, excellent bending, attract electrical manufacturers have invested in research and development, have the opportunity to replace the LCD panel, became the latest generation of products selling technology.

This innovative technology is OLED, also known as organic light-emitting diodes, with self luminous, do not need backlight, providing a wide range of high efficiency lighting, but also to make the lighting more full of design sense. However, unlike LED, OLED is very thin, even a very strong flexibility.

According to the "New York Times" reported that the "light poet" reputation of the German designer Ingo Maurer on the use of lamps, 10 days before the OLED panel, designed a set of branches as the shape of the lamp, priced at $10 thousand.

Maurer is currently considering OLED with other uses, he said: "if the wall as separated by OLED, can play a very good decorative effect, I now consider it combined with other elements, change to a new mode. "

Other designers have also conceived the idea of placing OLED on the ceiling or blinds so that the room looks as if it is still in the sun after nightfall.

Now OLED has been used in some mobile phones, such as Samsung (005930-KR) launched Impression phones, although the body is quite small, but the price is very expensive. In addition, in terms of ultra-thin screen, including SONY (6758-JP; SONY) and LG (051910-KR) have been gradually involved in R & D. SONY is currently leading the world's first OLED ultra-thin TV, the scale of about 11 inches, priced at $2500. LG electronics also announced that it will launch 15 inch OLED TV in November.

OLED is not only lighter than the general LCD screen, high-definition screen, visual angle up to 170 degrees, far higher than the general LCD screen. Market research firm DisplaySearch analyst Jennifer Colegrove predicts that by 2009, the number of OLED screen mobile phone will be increased 7 times to 50 million.

In addition, OLED lighting may be the next most promising market. Manufacturers hope to be able to greatly promote the sale of OLED within a year, mainly for large residential and commercial space lighting, manufacturers said, OLED's energy efficiency and durability as LED bulbs.

In addition to the above advantages, the use of OLED will still be subject to some restrictions. Designer Maurer pointed out that this is not just because of its high price, he believes that the OLED light source is very monotonous, the lack of drama. Hannes International, founder of rAndom, a British art group, also pointed out: "the lights of the OLED lighting look quite unreal. "

Due to the flexibility of the OLED panel is very flexible, be considered to have a good supplier of winding, and even can be embedded in the glass window. When the light is not lit, the glass looks very clear and bright; but when the light is on, the glass becomes opaque, with the effect of isolation.

Because the OLED panel thickness is only 0.07 inches, when the lights will almost never release too much heat, so the architect in the future does not have to leave the ceiling lamp device space, as is now used in LCD TV, no longer like the past so space for the same reason.

According to the statistics of the photoelectric news network, now these new technologies, including General Electric (General ELectric C o; GE-US), SONY Konica-Minolta, OSRAM merger (Os RAM), PHILPS (PHPE-US; Philips) and the Universa L Display (PANL-US) and other companies have been actively engaged in the development of.

PHILPS OLED lighting development team manager Dieter Bertram said: we have a lot of financial resources into the development of OLED. These days, PHILPS is stepping up its efforts to strengthen investment in the field, and in Germany to create the first OLED lighting production line.

Universal Display was started 15 years ago in the development of OLED technology, has received $10 million in government subsidies over the past 5 years.

With increasing production, prices are bound to decline, the company expects OLED will eventually be widely used, supporters believe that this technology can be used in the future of automotive, home and business. Duggal 30, general manager of the OLED development team, Anil, said: "I hope to reduce the price of OLED devices to $6, so our competitiveness will be greatly improved. "