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.
The lifetime of this flexible OLED sheets are about 3000 hours and the brightness is 1000 cd/m²
At the moment there is no information about price.
OLED lighting has one feature that no other type of illumination offers, and that is its ability to curve. While the current trend in new developments is to use glass for the panel that supports the light emission layer, the use of materials such as plastic substrate make it possible to achieve lighting that can curve flexibly.
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Here are the first prototypes from GE and Konica Minolta
GE has worked with a number of prominent lighting designers, architects and graphic designers, including Fisher and Kennedy, to ensure its early OLED solutions can be used in real-world scenarios. OLED solutions produced as GE and KM envision hold promise for lowering the costs to produce, use and maintain lighting. GE’s OLED solutions will be mercury-free, lightweight and dimmable.
Source:Olednet
