The invention of paper Konica as thin as a flexible OLED lighting

Nikkei reported on the 17, Konica Minolta has developed a paper thin OLED lighting products, with soft and bendable properties, so it can be installed in various places.

Konica developed OLED lighting product size 6x15cm (width x length), at present still inferior to the brightness of LED lighting products, but Konica plans to use the use of OLED can be the whole uniform luminous characteristics, its brightness increased to be comparable to the LED standard, and plans to conduct practical in a few years later. In addition to lighting products, Konica itself has mass production lighting OLED panel.

OLED lighting is expected to 2015-2016 year appears really popular, according to the Japan Institute of Fuji (Fuji Keizai) of the economic survey, 2020 estimated Japan OLED lighting market size at 108 billion 500 million yen, about 100 times of 2012. Reported that the current OLED lighting is the biggest issue of its material / production costs up to 10 times the LED lighting, but if the introduction of mass production, is expected to reduce its cost.