Philips Lumiblade OLED Light Sheets
Philips is offering its Lumiblade OLED light sheets to customers in kit form to spur innovative uses of this efficient form of lighting. ...
... "SSL lighting provides illumination that is more energy efficient, longer-lasting and more sustainable. It also opens exciting new doors to how we can use, integrate and ‘play’ with light in our homes, cars, shops and cities. A key structural difference is that OLEDs are created using organic semiconductors (such as those that make up organic solar cells), while LEDs are built in crystals from an inorganic material. OLEDs, on the other hand, are extremely flat panels that evenly emit light over the complete surface. The illumination they produce is “calm”, more glowing and diffuse, and non-glaring. The thin, flat nature of OLEDs also makes it possible to use and integrate light OLED lighting works by passing electricity through one or more incredibly thin layers of organic semiconductors. As this layer returns to its original, stable, non-excited state, the energy flows evenly through the organic film, causing it to emit light. Using different materials in the organic films makes it possible for the OLEDs to emit different colored light. " ...Via Philips: OLED SOLID STATE LIGHTING (PDF)
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