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Konica Minolta has announced plans to split its OLED division into a new subsidiary of the company
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The plastic electronics industry is working intensively to create the products to drive the OLED lighting market - but how will the lighting industry respond
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Atomic layer deposition (ALD), an advanced deposition technique used in R&D and microelectronics fabrication, is demonstrating its suitability for high volume roll-to-roll processing
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Philips and BASF are working together to develop an OLED car roof, which will act as both a window and a light source
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans to increase funding into OLED lighting, to improve efficiency and drive down costs
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OLED displays are currently the focal point of the commercial plastic electronics industry. Yet there are many OLED developers working keenly on next big market for the technology: lighting
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Moser Baer Technologies and Universal Display (UDC) have entered into a licensing agreement for material supply and technology aid for OLED panel manufacturing
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There is plenty of movement in the OLED lighting industry to suggest that 2012 will see some commercial impact, as 2011 ends with the market beginning to be established
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US-based printed electronics materials developer Plextronics and Cambrios, a supplier of transparent conductive materials based on nanowires, have begun co-marketing an electrode solution for OLED devices
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A new committee to oversee educational programmes supporting the plastic electronics industry has been established
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OLEDWorks has announced a patent licence agreement with Golbal OLED Technology (GOT)
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Plans to combine the LOPE-C and Printed Electronics Europe events, initially announced back in June, have ended with their respective organisers pursuing plans for their own separate events as before
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Osram has announced another record breaking efficiency achievement by a flexible OLED sample
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Among other European countries the UK provides the highest levels of support for R&D and pre-commercial work into flexible and printable electronics
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Idemitsu Kosan has established a separate company in South Korea, to focus solely on OLED manufacturing
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A new report from industry analyst Nanomarkets predicts the OLED encapsulation market will grow in conjunction with OLED lighting
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A new €18 million EU competition to promote commercialization of organic and large-area electronics technologies and products has opened
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OLED100 - the EU-funded collaborative R&D project tasked with improving OLED lighting technology for general lighting applications - has wrapped up and results will be disseminated in November 2011
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US research led by OLED expert Stephen Forrest, vice president for research at the University of Michigan's materials science and engineering department, have developed a printing process for depositing OLED materials
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Lumiotec has launched a new hanger lamp, using a Rohm OLED panel with a hook, for using in various situations
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Panasonic Idemitsu OLED Lighting (PIOL) has signed a licence agreement with Global OLED Technology (GOT) for use of its patents
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OLED technology company Universal Display has signed a licence agreement with Pioneer Corporation, allowing for the production of lighting products
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A €5.1 million project starting next month is developing next-generation systems for intelligent OLED lighting
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A centre for the mass-production of organic electronics has opened in Muttenz, Switzerland
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Novaled has launched a new light-art product featuring OLED panels under a new brand name, Liternity
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Panasonic Electric Works has announced the production of a highly efficient OLED device
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The OLED lighting market is largely unproven. While there are products on the market, they are almost exclusively the work of innovative designers selling individual products at significantly higher costs than other lighting technologies
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Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a new manufacturing process to produce low cost quantum dot based LEDs
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Steve Forrest, vice president of research in the department for materials science and engineering at the University of Michigan, will present new research on thermal management in OLED devices at the upcoming Society for Information Display's UK Organic Electronics chapter meeting
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Osram, the lighting subsidiary of Siemens, has opened its pilot-line manufacturing plant for OLEDs in Germany
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An Israeli designer has created a concept that merges organic photovoltaics with OLED lighting to brighten up cityscapes
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Panasonic and Idemitsu Kosan's joint venture in OLED lighting has secured an IP agreement with Universal Display
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A new report, OLED Lighting, A review of the patent landscape, shows a high growth in materials patents for the technology
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The Smart System Technology & Conference Centre, at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, has begun building of its new OLED manufacturing facility
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IPC - an 'Association Connecting Electronics Industries' - is expanding into printed electronics
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Nanomaterials are becoming synonymous with printed electronics, as new manufacturing techniques enable new commercial applications
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A challenge to the intellectual property rights of an important material used in the production of OLED displays could lead to a global effort to reduce the costs of manufacturing the technology
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German speciality chemicals producer Merck is embarking on a partnership with Nano-C, a developer of nano-structured carbon, for use in energy and electronics applications
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Printed electronics company Plextronics, has secured €10 million in funding from Solvay, a European industrial group
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OLED developer Novaled is opening a new office in Korea, as it commits to growing the market in Asia
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Siemens has signed an exclusive licence agreement for its organic photodetector technology with NikkoIA
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The US-based Flextech Alliance has showcased practical printed and flexible electronics processes and devices, in partnership with industry developers
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Novaled has developed a new white OLED lighting structure that develops high brightness levels with a long lifespan
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OLED technology company eMagin has announced a partnership with the University of Rochester to develop high efficiency lighting systems
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Konica Minolta in Japan and Philips in Europe are building on their existing collaboration in OLED lighting, with plans to start producing panels in Philips's German facilities in Q3 2011
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The Advanced Surface Technology Research Laboratory, a research unit of Lappeenranta University of Technology, is developing a roll-to-roll atomic layer deposition process for several industrial applications
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German lighting manufacturer Osram has announced a breakthrough in OLED lighting development, with a new efficiency record
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Korean equipment manufacturer Jusung Engineering has acquired an opportunity to enter the European and African marketplace
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Royal Philips Electronics is to invest €40 million into the production of OLED lighting solutions
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Universal Display (UDC) has unveiled a new warm-white lighting panel at the Society for Information Displays 2011, taking place in the US this week
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OLED technology and materials provider Novaled have developed a new, power-efficient fluorescent white OLED structure, achieving 36 lumens per watt
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The National University of Singapore has signed a new IP agreement with Cambridge Display Technology to commercialise innovations in P-OLED and organic semiconductor research
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Acuity Brands have launched two new luninaires, both of which take advantage of high efficiency OLED lighting
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Printed lighting and displays company Plextronics has signed an OLED lighting distribution agreement with Sanyo Chemical Industries
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Adhesives and surface treatments specialist Henkel has announced a partnership with R&D organisation the Holst Centre
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Nanomaterials start-ups targeting electronics applications are cooperating with Asian industrial firms to increase commercial opportunities for their technology
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Panasonic Electric Works and Idemitsu Kosan have announced a joint venture to develop OLED lighting panels, and expand the market
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Despite having the potential to improve and benefit an array of electronic devices including solid-state lighting, displays and solar cells, quantum dots (QDs) are challenging to produce in commercial quantities
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General Electric is looking to OLED lighting as the future of the display industry, and aims to under-price the current fluorescent market share
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Finnish firms Beneq and Glaston have sold a tool for applying transparent conductive oxide (TCO) coatings, based on nanomaterial thin-films, to a customer in Asia for preparing glass for photovoltaic (PV) production
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The photonics community is becoming a relevant partner in commercial development for plastic electronics
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An initiative to coordinate the UK's technology development centre network aims to build a national plastic electronics economy
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The vision paper for photonics and organic electronics was today presented to European Commission vice president Neelie Kroes, to advise on the role of the emerging technologies to the European economy
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US nanomaterials company QD Vision has taken a further step towards commercially supplying its materials, with two development agreements sealed at the end of 2010
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Lighting panels based on OLED materials have been available to order from manufacturers such as Osram and Lumiotec for some time, but improvements in systems to control OLED lighting and optimise panel performance will help ensure the technology's commercial appeal
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This month Japanese company Lumiotec begins shipping mass production-ready OLED lighting panels
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E-readers, smartphones, bags, medicine-compliance packaging - the products that use plastic electronics technology can be counted on one hand, but from 2012 new applications and launches are anticipated
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A University of Surrey spin-out is to supply its new nanomaterials processing system to École Polytechnique de Montréal
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The plastic electronics industry could benefit from an advance in organic field-effect transistor (OFET) technology
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Oxford Lasers, the UK university's original spin-out, is developing a laser processing tool specifically for organic electronics
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University California Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers have developed an indium tin oxide (ITO) alternative for flexible electronics
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US-based Plextronics is sampling a wider range of printable inks for OLED manufacturing
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A new material that could enable a special kind of mouldable plastic to create solid-state lighting has secured funding for further development, with the aim of field testing in late 2011
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LEDs are helping to develop the solid-state lighting markets, creating longer-term opportunities to commercialise new devices such as OLED panels
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The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) will make a new range of OLED lighting panels available in Q1 2011
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Universal Display Corporation (UDC) and Moser Baer Technologies will build a pilot line for producing OLED lighting panels in New York
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German OLED lighting producer Osram has announced the construction of a pilot production line
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David Fyfe, who was chairman and CEO of Cambridge Display Technology until March of this year, has joined the board of Konarka
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In the US Armstrong World Industries and Universal Display Corporation have produced a lighting system using OLED panels, integrated into a commercial ceiling fixture
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Two technology firms in the plastic electronics industry have won funding under a Department of Energy programme to support the commercialisation of their respective technologies in solar and low-energy lighting
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OLED lighting developer Philips has created the first OLED module that can be plugged into mains electricity
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A powerful microscope that will be used for the development of plastic electronics has been installed at the University of Cambridge, to support research
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Intelligent, organic electronic lighting and signage are being developed for roads and vehicles in a three-year R&D project
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Around €200 million has been ring-fenced for photonics and organic electronics R&D in an EU information communication technology (ICT) programme
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In Switzerland a start-up that will commercialise a low-energy plasma light technology has been spun out from Solaronix, a producer of chemicals for making dye-sensitised solar cells
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An initiative to develop low-cost OLED lighting in the UK has secured government funding and will officially start in early November
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OLED lighting manufacturer Blackbody has unveiled a new product for interior lighting
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The UK will invest £8.4 million (€10.2 million) in plastic electronics businesses, funding 13 technology development projects
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In 2011 a global commodities exchange will go live, linking up buyers and investors with suppliers of nano-engineered materials, to help unlock the commercial potential of this far-reaching field of technology
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Earlier this month Environment Committee Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) called for a ban on nanosilver, long multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and labelling for electrical and electronic products containing nanomaterials, for example conductive inks.
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Eastman Kodak has resumed its interest in printed electronics in a cooperative agreement with coating technology firm MacDermid Autotype
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OLED lighting has been the source of a flurry of announcements from developers in 2010. New demonstrators and agreements to develop products have come from Philips, Osram, Novaled and others
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South Korean firm Sunic System has become a partner in the Flexible Display Centre at Arizona State University, US
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Mitsubishi Chemical will mass-produce OLED lighting products in 2011 through its subsidiary Verbatim
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Decorative lighting manufacturer WAC Lighting has announced the release of its OLED lighting chandelier
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Proof of concept
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OLED lighting manufacturing in South Korea will be enhanced with a KRW30 billion (€20.5 million) investment from the Ministry of Knowledge Economy
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Novaled has produced OLEDs on metal substrates, according to a company statement
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+Plastic Electronics magazine will be featuring a number of speakers from the upcoming NanoMaterials 2010 event in its next issue
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A recently announced cooperation with the Holst Centre will prepare the NeoDec conductive ink for a commercial smart packaging partnership
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Two Dresden-based Fraunhofer institutes and the city’s technical university aim to continue funded R&D into flexible OLEDs in a new project starting in June
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UK companies Cambridge Display Technology and Conductive Inkjet Technology have produced a polymer OLED lighting device that does not use a conductive indium tin oxide layer
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Novaled is continuing its efforts to get OLED lighting into the marketplace by collaborating with a European car manufacturer for interior lighting
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OLED lighting took centre stage at the Plastic Electronics Awards for Innovation 2009. Volume 2, issue 5 of +Plastic Electronics magazine covered the awards and spoke to some key developers
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Developers in Europe are working on a glossary to define OLED lighting and bring clarity to an emerging industry aiming for product commercialisation
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Luminous Media, a producer and supplier of EL and LED products including tee-shirts and road signs, is preparing to supply its technology for treadplates in cars
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Ambicare Health, which is developing a new wearable light plaster for treating types of skin cancer, is expanding closed market trials for its technology
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TechnoCorp Energy will use OLED lighting technology developed by Kodak and bought by LG in November 2009 to commercialise new solid-state lighting panels
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European technology companies and research institutes are joining forces in a new project that aims to integrate lighting into everyday surroundings and products
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Germany-based chemicals company Merck has revealed some early results of its work to develop solution processable OLED materials
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Investment in printable and solution processable OLED lighting technologies is increasing to reduce the cost of producing these panels
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Dr Sean Smyth, a leading consultant for the digital and analogue printing industry, examines opportunities and challenges for printing electronics
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The OLED developers at Kodak are forming an independent company to continue its work in solid-state lighting, called TechnoCorp Energy
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A hybrid LED technology, called Ormocer, is making polymer materials robust enough to enter mobile phones and cameras
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Director of commercial development, Cambridge Display Technology (CDT)
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Next month Philips Lighting will revamp its online store www.lumiblade.com with new offerings and lower prices to spark a second wave of demand for its OLED lamps.
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Lighting designers and architects will be able to work with OLED lighting from several sources this year as more developers start shipping products and samples
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The US Department of Energy has provided $37 million in funding for solid-state lighting projects that will help develop OLED and LED lighting technologies
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A €14.7 million project is bringing together developers in the OLED supply chain to make production-ready lighting and signage devices
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The UK Carbon Trust is funding a project that aims to develop low energy OLED lighting for outdoors
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UK university spin-out to challenge global OLED developers
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The Organic Electronic Association’s latest publication has added OLED lighting and smart textiles to its roadmap for plastic electronics developments
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'I think he liked it - he said he might like to get one.'
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The UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has unveiled its strategy to make the UK ‘a global leader’ of the future plastic electronics industry
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US firm Eastman Kodak has sold its OLED business to South Korea’s LG
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Technical University Dresden spin-out Sim4tec has released new OLED simulation software for organic electronics developers
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Osram has unveiled its first commercial product, the Orbeos OLED light panel
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Japanese imaging technology producer Konica Minolta is upscaling its OLED lighting offering, according to Reuters
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A successor project to a UK polymer LED (PLED) lighting R&D initiative is being planned that will test if the work is scalable for commercial applications
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An OLED materials R&D company is being set up that will supply chemistry for a regional OLED lighting cluster in Japan's Yamagata prefecture
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Plastic electronic technologies, including OLEDs, are being tested by major airlines for use in commercial flights
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A new joint venture (JV) in Dresden, Germany, that will make OLED lighting and signage modules could bring its first products to market in 2010
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The US Department of Energy (DoE) has recently published a summary report from its two Solid-State Lighting (SSL) manufacturing workshops, held earlier this year
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Next month Scotland-based Ambicare Health will start to ship volumes of a wearable disposable LED plaster for treating skin cancer in conjunction with photodynamic drugs
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Zumtobel and Fraunhofer form joint venture to target OLED lighting
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Printed electronics and electroluminescent (EL) displays have been developed for the e-payment market by German company Schreiner VarioLight
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A wearable light treatment for skin cancer will enter clinical trials in Europe in early 2010
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Novaled AG and Plextronics sign agreement to co-produce OLED lighting materials
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The U.S Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Universal Display Corporation (UDC) $1.65 million (€1.1 million) to produce a series of thin, low-power, white OLEDs for use in under-cabinet applications.
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Companies aiming to manufacture OLED lamps outline their strategies to reduce the cost of OLED lighting and discuss development challenges
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The ergonomic design properties of organic and printed electronics ensure that the automotive industry will be a significant market for these technologies in the coming years
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Showa Denko is developing a phosphorescent polymer organic EL display and recording light extraction efficiency of 40%