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Novaled and Universal Display advance OLED lighting technology

Novaled announces a new top-emitting white OLED, while Universal Display receives $4 million from the DOE to build pilot OLED production line.

Universal Display will have two years and $4 million to demonstrate the scalability of its UniversalPHOLED technology for the general illumination market, and together with Moser Baer Technologies will build a pilot production line. Novaled, meanwhile, has a new top-emitting white OLED technology that is made on a metal substrate, doesn't require brittle and expensive Indium Tin Oxide (ITO), and is rated for 50,000 hours of life.

Novaled developed the new OLED using its PIN (p-doped, intrinsic, n-doped) OLED technology that leverages proprietary host and doping materials, and blue fluorescent emitting material from SFC Korea. The company also adds a proprietary light-extraction layer that eliminates color shift and increases efficiency.

The metal substrate in the new PIN-OLED-based design offers improved heat dissipation, mechanical stability, and flexibility, and offers compatibility with roll-to-roll manufacturing techniques.

The new Novaled OLED outputs 30 lm/W with an initial luminance of 1,000 cd/m². With this achievement Novaled demonstrates once again the robustness and potential of its PIN technology”, says Gildas Sorin, Novaled CEO. “Configurations like top or bottom, inverted or non-inverted organic structures with various emitting materials and metal electrodes bring the proper high performance for each specific market request in the display and lighting domain.”