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This e-book details the technical opportunities and challenges for OLEDs used in lighting applications. It covers lighting industry dynamics, competition with incumbent lighting technologies, and OLED performance targets. It looks at materials, device architecture and manufacturing processes as well as the requirements in key lighting applications and which technologies OLED manufacturers are looking at to improve performance.
This e-book will provide the reader with a comprehensive view of the current state of OLED lighting and where it is headed.
Executive summary
Introduction and methodology
- Scope
- Objectives
- Methodology
- List of definitions
Key drivers and trends
- Overview
- Lighting drivers and dynamics
- OLED technology drivers and barriers
- Drivers
- Efficiency
- Lifetime, lifecycle costs
- Form factor
- Design options
- Challenges for commercialising OLED lighting
- Cost, payback period
- Competition with incumbent technologies
- Luminance requirements
- Infrastructure
- Performance targets and roadmap
OLED technology trends
- Materials and devices
- Small molecule and polymer
- Device architecture
- White OLEDs
- Light emission and loss mechanisms
- Encapsulation
- Light extraction features
- Manufacturing processes
- Deposition
- Solution processing
- Roll-to-roll
- New technologies
- Flexible OLEDs
- Transparent lighting
- ITO alternatives
End-use applications
- Supply chain
- Lighting manufacturers
- OLED lighting market segments
- General illumination
- Display backlighting
- Automotive
- Decorative
- Accent
- Architectural
Outlook for OLEDs
- Internal quantum efficiency improvements
- Drive voltage reduction
- Output coupling methods
- Increasing light extraction