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Philips offers a new Lumiblade OLED lighting panel called Square Tall plus. The new panel is very efficient with 45 lm/w instead of 12 lm/w. The size is 7×7 cm and the panel was developed from Konica Minolta. The panel costs about 120 euro and the minimum quantitiy is 100 units.

Technical details of this new panel:

Luminous efficacy: 45 lm/W
Thickness: 1.8 mm
Lifetime: 10,000 hours
Luminance: 1,000 cd/m²
Current/voltage: 71.5 mA / 3.6 V
Color coordinates (x; y): 0.45 ; 0.41
Color temperature: 2,800 K

A mexican design studio named agent and Konica Minolta are showing two new OLED lighting applications.

Strip light

It began as an idea to fuse public seating with street lighting; stretched out, flexible OLED lighting panels bent at various levels to form benches of light, serving as public seating or display surfaces, and this evolved into a bus stop with illuminated timetables and neighborhood maps that are clearly visible even at night.

Forget maps at each junction, tap a marker and follow the strip of light to your destination. Beyond the bus stop, the strips of light extend along the roadside creating a dynamic system that illuminates the city streets, as needed, day or night.

Konica Minolta want to start the mass production of worlds first flexible OLED lights in 2010.
They received the manufacturing technology from GE which using a polymer light emitting materials and printing technologies.

Konica Minolta utilizes a PEN/ITO substrat from Sumitomo chemical.

56 lumens-per-watt efficiency achievement proves that flexible, white OLED lighting devices can be made at low cost using “solution-coatable” materials.

Konarka Technologies, Inc. has signed an agreement with Konica Minolta Holdings, inc. to begin joining forces in developing and distributing organic thin-film photovoltaics. The said agreement wherein Konica Minolta invested 20 million into Konarka, is set to begin in April and will target better performing and more efficient organic thin-film photovoltaics.

Konica Minolta does have big plans for OLED lighting.
Konica Minolta want to lanuch OLED lighting equipment in March 2011 and want to build a large scale plant for lighting panels in 2014. The forecast for organic lighting in 2017/2018 is about 1.1 billion Dollar!

Displaysearch released a new OLED lighting report, the main message from this report is that the OLED lighting era begins in 2011.

That year, big OLED players such as Philips, GE, Konica Minolta, and OSRAM will finally ramp up production.

Konica Minolta licenses Universal Display’s proprietary UniversalPHOLED™ and other OLED technologies to make and sell energy-efficient white OLED lighting products with novel design features and e

Konica Minolta, which is developing lighting products using organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology with General Electric plans to launch the OLED lighting equipment by early 2011, Senior Execu