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At the recent IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe conference in Cambridge, Dr Peter Visser of Philips and the pan European OLLA project reviewed the work of OLLA. The acronym "OLLA" stands for "high brightness organic light emitting diodes for ICT & lighting applications". The program involves 24 partners from 8 European countries, among which 10 from industry, 7 academia and also 7 universities, including the EC financial support. It represents a total R&D budget of around 20 million Euros.

The project officially started on October 1st 2004, but work on the project had been started more than one year before that date, in order to prepare the project plan for submitting it to the call for proposals by the European Commission. The original idea for the project came from Philips Lighting, which wanted to investigate the potential of the OLED technology for lighting applications.

Organic LEDs, even on glass, are in general an interesting light source as they are flat sources, give a homogeneous light over an area, are potentially very energy efficient, and there are options to have many colours within one device. Glass substrates are used and the focus is performance. The project ends in 2008.