A pilot facility to manufacture white OLED panels will be built as part of a two year program to demonstrate up to a four times improvement in energy efficiency for white OLED lighting that will meet commercial lighting targets.
The facility, funded by the US Department of Energy for $4.000.000 will be designed and built by Moser Baer Technologies, a U.S. subsidiary of Moser Baer India, to demonstrate the scalability of Universal Display's technology and materials in the manufacturing process.
White OLED lighting is viewed as a technology that can introduce highly efficient, innovative lighting solutions to reduce the global carbon footprint of residential and commercial lighting. According to industry estimates, electric bills for lighting alone are over $200 billion per year on a worldwide basis. It has been estimated that by 2016, white OLEDs could generate well over $20 billion in worldwide savings of electricity costs and could save over nine million metric tons of carbon emissions from the U.S. alone.
"This new U.S. DOE program represents a very important step towards the establishment of high-volume manufacturing of white OLED lighting panels in the U.S," stated Steven Abramson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Universal Display.
The Korean Government also has plans to boost their OLED lighting industry. According to some sources they plan to invest US$26.8 million (30 billion won) to develop a fourth generation manufacturing facility for OLED lighting. About 19 billion won will be contributed by Government with the remaining 11 billion won from industry.
For more attend Printed Electronics USA 2010.
Reference: Universal Display
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