Flexible, started to be used in the OLED lighting market

The trend toward flexible design is on the rise in the OLED lighting market, too.

At Light + Building 2018, not only LG Display but also OLEDWorks and Sumitomo Chemical exhibited flexible OLED lightings, highlighting their differentiations from LED lightings.

In particular, OLEDWorks and Sumitomo Chemical attracted a lot of attention from the audience by introducing their flexible OLED panels respectively.

OLED Works released a flexible OLED panel “Brite 3 FL300C” with thin glass. The specifications are 10,000 hours (life time) and 57 lm/W @ 8,300 cd/m2 or 50,000 hours and 63 lm/W @ 3,000 cd / m2.

Sumitomo Chemical’s flexible OLED panel was fabricated through solution process on a PI substrate, with the life time of about 20,000 hours and 50 lm/W @ 1,500 cd/m2 and is.

<Flexible OLED lighting panels, OLEDWorks(left) and Sumitomo Chemical(right)>

The two flexible OLED lighting panels introduced by the two companies, which are prototypes, are similar to the performance of LG Display’s flexible lighting OLED panel, which is currently in production, with 55 lm/W and life time of 30,000 hours. When these two companies start mass production of flexible OLEDs, it is expected to make a big change in the market of flexible OLED lighting panels.

Meanwhile, LG Display, the leader in the OLED lighting market, launched the OLED lighting brand “Luflex” last December. At Light + Building 2018, LG Display exhibited various designs of lightings that can be implemented with flexible OLED lighting panels, which attracted the biggest attention of the fair attendants. Six award-winning products of the LG OLED Design Competition 2017 were exhibited, and there were many comments that the lightings are distinguished from LED lightings by maximizing the advantages of flexible OLED lighting.

<Winning works of LG OLED Design Competition 2017>

 

OLED lighting 시장에서도 flexible 본격화

OLED lighting 시장에서도 flexible 디자인으로의 추세가 본격화 되고 있다.

Light+Building 2018에서는 LG Display 뿐만 아니라 OLEDWorks와 Sumitomo Chemical에서도 flexible OLED lighting을 전시하며 LED 조명들과의 차별화를 부각시켰다.

특히 OLEDWorks와 Sumitomo Chemical은 flexible OLED panel을 최초로 공개해서 관람객들의 큰 이목을 끌었다.

OLED Works는 thin glass를 적용한 flexible OLED panel “Brite 3 FL300C”를 공개했다. 스펙은 1만시간과 57 lm/W@8,300 cd/m2 또는 5만시간과 63 lm/W@3,000 cd/m2 이다.

Sumitomo Chemical에서 공개한 flexible OLED panel은 PI 기판을 이용하고 solution process로 제작되었으며, 효율은 50 lm/W@1,500 cd/m2 수명은 약 2만시간 수준이다.

두 업체에서 공개한 flexible OLED lighting panel은 프로토타입으로 현재 양산을 진행중인 LG Display의 flexible lighting OLED panel의 성능인 55 lm/W, 3만시간과 비슷한 수준이다. 이 두 업체에서 flexible OLED 양산을 시작하게 된다면 flexible OLED lighting panel 시장에 큰 변화를 일으킬 것으로 기대된다.

한편 OLED lighting 시장에서 선두를 달리고 있는 LG Display는 지난해 12월 OLED lighting 브랜드인 “Luflex”를 런칭한 이 후 첫 전시회인 Light+Building 2018에서 flexible OLED lighting으로 구현할 수 있는 다양한 디자인의 조명을 전시하여 관람객 들의 큰 이목을 끌었다. LG OLED Design Competition 2017의 수상작 6종류가 전시되었으며 flexible OLED lighting의 장점을 극대화 한 디자인으로 LED 조명과의 차별화가 돋보였다는 평들이 주를 이루었다.

UBI research publishes 2017 OLED lighting report : LG Display, ready to mass-produce OLED light panel, expecting OLED lighting market to grow fast

■ LG Display starts mass production of 5G OLED panel for lighting from the end of September

■ OLED lighting panel market is projected to grow from US$ 1.9billion in 2021 to US$ 5.8billion by 2025

 

LG Display will start mass production of 5G OLED light panels from the end of September, therefore attention is focused on whether the OLED lighting market is growing rapidly. According to LG Display, monthly production capacity is 15K, and it is to be increased to 90K later.

 

According to the ‘2017 OLED Lighting Annual Report’ published by UBI Research on August 8, the global OLED lighting panel market is expected to grow to about US$ 1.9 billion by 2021. Furthermore, it is projected to have a CAGR of 85% for the period 2017-2025, and form a market of US$ 5.8 billion in 2025.

Because OLED lighting is thin, light and flexible, it does not limit the installation space and has excellent design autonomy. In addition, OLED lighting is used for automotive, exhibition, and medical as well as general indoor lighting because it can create a comfortable atmosphere with little heat and flicker.

 

However, the market for OLED lighting has been slower than that of OLED display, which is widely applied to mobile devices and TVs. Osram focuses primarily on automotive OLED lighting, and Philips sold its OLED lighting division to OLEDWorks. Also, Japanese panel makers such as Sumitomo Chemical and Konica Minolta have developed OLED lighting for industrial and medical applications. Nevertheless, it seems to take time for OLED lighting to become eventually a large market.

With LG Display’s mass production of Gen5 OLED line, the price of OLED light panel is estimated to drop below US $ 10 (100 x 100 mm). The significant price competiveness might enable OLED panels to be applied to various areas such as automobile and display lighting as well as indoor lighting. Owing to this expectation, attention is focused on whether the OLED lighting market, showing signs of slow growth, can be materialized.

UBI Research predicted that LG Display would account for about 70% of the world’s lighting OLED panel market in 2017, and will continue to lead the OLED lighting panel market with a 50% market share in 2020.

 

Meanwhile, ‘2017 OLED Lighting Annual Report’ describes trends of next-generation lighting market, promising applications, cost analysis upon the investment of LG Display and forecast of OLED lighting market. Since it analyses particularly OLED lighting market, materials market, and equipment market forecasts for OLED lighting from various perspectives, it is expected to help the related companies identify the OLED lighting market.

 

<Sales forecast for total OLED lighting panels>

[Light + Building 2016] OSRAM to Release Automotive OLED Lighting within 2-3 Months

Hyunjoo Kang, Reporter, OLEDNET

 

<OSRAM’s O-ring, OLED Product Applied Automotive Rear Lamp>

 

During the Lighting + Building 2016 exhibition (March 13-18) held in Frankfurt, Germany, OSRAM revealed that OLED rear lamp equipped cars will be on the road within 2-3 months.

OSRAM exhibited O-ring, OLED product applied to automotive rear lamp at this exhibition, and OLEDNET could see the fruit of OSRAM’s steady automotive lighting product development.

 

 

<General OLED Lighting Concept Suggested by OSRAM>

The OSRAM representative at the exhibition explained that OSRAM will continue their focus on automotive lighting and develop products but at the right moment, will enter the general lighting market. The representative added that although only the basic concept of the general lighting is present for now, further development will be carried out in future.

[Light and Building 2016] OSRAM “자동차용 OLED 조명 2~3개월 내 출시”

강현주 기자/OLEDNET

자동차 rear lamp에 적용된 OSRAM의 OLED (O-ring)

3월 13일부터 18일까지 6일간 독일 프랑크푸르트에서 개최된 ‘Light and Building 2016’ 전시장에서 OSRAM 관계자는 “OLED rear lamp를 탑재한 자동차를 빠르면 2 ~ 3 개월 이내에 도로에서 볼 수 있을 것”이라고 말했다.

OLEDNET이 다녀온 이번 전시회에서 OSRAM이 자동차용 rear lamp에 적용된 OLED 제품(O-ring)을 전시하였다. 그 동안 꾸준히 자동차용 조명 제품 개발에 매진해온 OSRAM의 결실을 보게 된 셈이다.

OSRAM이 제시한 OLED 일반 조명의 concept

전시장에서 만난 OSRAM의 관계자는 “OSRAM은 지속적으로 자동차용 조명에 더 집중하여 제품을 개발할 예정이지만, 적당한 시기에 일반 조명시장에도 뛰어들 것”이라며 “현재는 일반 조명에 대해서는 기본적인 콘셉트 정도만을 그려놓은 상태이지만, 추후 일반 가정용 조명 제품의 개발도 진행할 예정”이라고 밝혔다.

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LG Chem OLED light at Euroluce 2015

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http://www.lgoledlight.com