Universal Display Corporation, today announced that the company has been awarded a $1.65 million, two-year contract from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to demonstrate a thin, highly-efficient, white OLED lighting concept for under-cabinet applications. This program builds on Universal Display’s past and current work with the DOE under its Solid State Lighting Program.
Universal Display will deliver a set of under-cabinet lighting units to the DOE. Each unit will consist of five 6” x 6” white PHOLED lighting panels that are based on the company’s high-efficiency, phosphorescent OLED technology and materials. The units will be designed to provide comparable performance to existing under-cabinet systems, have a system efficiency of > 60 lumens per watt, and exhibit a significantly thinner form factor than conventional under-cabinet lighting products currently in the market. This thin form factor has the potential to expand the array of possible under-cabinet lighting design concepts and to simplify product installation.
The DOE has made a long-term commitment to advance the development and introduction of energy-efficient white lighting sources for general illumination.
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