Flexible OLED Light Source

ModisTech, the only OLED manufacturing company in Korea, has announced their new flexible and cheaply built OLED light source. The company also announced that they would be mass producing the light source as soon as possible. The target is at beginning 2011 every country could benefit from this technology.

Although there are a lot of OLED lighting solutions available; this new product is not only revolutionary because of its 90% cheaper production costs, but also because it promises to change the lighting world standards by removing the “to install” phrase and replacing it with “to attach”.

With size only 150 x 150 mm, the OLED light source is quite easy to “apply” anywhere because of their flexible build. This way, they have a very wide area of applicability and could easily become the next-generation lighting source. Modistech claim to have reduced the production costs by up to 90%, which is the cheapest organic light emitting diode method known so far. The key of cost reduction is by minimizing the number of substrate processes and by using roll-to-roll deposition and self-developed encapsulation materials.

The OLED light source will apparently be used for various indirect lighting applications including desk lamps and car lighting, and promise to provide a more natural light than LEDs while maintaining some of the same power savings. Still no word on any actual products using the OLED panels, unfortunately, but they will supposedly be inexpensive for companies to adopt (and very cheap to manufacture).

Although Modistech is currently ahead of schedule with the production of these economic OLED lighting panels, it will probably still be a few more years before the implementation at a world wide scale starts. It is still good to know that we have the technology to change our current energy-eating habits.

Sources:

1. Softpedia Gadget

2. Engadget