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Aachen, Germany – OLED100.eu, an integrated research project,
brings together a consortium of experts from leading industry and
academic organizations to accelerate the development of organic
light-emitting diode (OLED) technologies in Europe. It receives
€12.5 million funding by the European Community’s Seventh Framework
Programme to form the technological basis for efficient OLED
applications for the general lighting industry in Europe.
The OLED100.eu programme follows the successful OLLA (Organic LEDs
for Lighting Applications) programme, which started in 2004 and
concluded earlier this year. OLLA created the basis for organic
lighting by developing white OLEDs with efficacies of 50.7 lm/W at
an initial brightness of 1000 cd/m² and with lifetimes well above
10.000 hours. With OLED100.eu, Europe is continuing to invest in the
development of organic lighting technologies and moving to
specifications required for general lighting applications. The
consortium will focus on five main goals:
• High power efficacy (100 lm/W)
• Long lifetime (100.000 h)
• Large area (100x100 cm²)
• Low-cost (100 Euro/m²)
• Measurement standardization / application research
 “The European Council has agreed to cut at least 20 per cent in CO2;
emissions by 2020 and OLED100.eu is an important initiative to
advance the development of energy efficient lighting solutions.
Building on the success of OLLA, OLED100.eu will deliver OLEDs with
twice the efficiency, 10-times the operational lifetime and 10-times
the substrate size. The participation of leading lighting
manufacturers like Philips and Osram ensures a rapid transfer of any
result into real products.”, says Dr. Stefan Grabowski of Philips
Research, project manager of OLED100.eu.“
OLEDs are a new and attractive class of solid-state light sources
and they are emerging as a compelling candidate to replace
conventional lighting systems for large area illumination. Organic LEDs generate a diffuse, non-glaring illumination with high color
rendering. They are flat, thin, and have the potential to serve as
efficient large light sources. OLEDs are instant-on, can be dimmed
and can be produced on substrates of basically any shape. This high
level of flexibility in terms of design and application make them
highly appealing for designers, manufacturers and consumers.
Furthermore, as a highly efficient light source, OLEDs have the
potential to achieve substantial energy savings. This latest EU
research consortium provides important support to ensure Europe
plays a leading role in OLED technology.
Partners in the OLED100.eu consortium include:
• Bartenbach LichtLabor GmbH, Austria
• European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC), France
• Evonik Degussa GmbH, Germany
• Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS), Germany
• Microsharp Corporation Limited, Great Britain
• Novaled AG, Germany
• Océ Technologies B.V., The Netherlands
• OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH, Germany
• Philips Technologie GmbH, Business Center OLED Lighting, Germany
• Philips Technologie GmbH Forschungslaboratorien, Germany
• Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany
• Saint-Gobain Recherche S.A., France
• Siemens AG, Germany
• Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Angewandte Photophysik, Germany
• Universiteit Gent, Belgium
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