Organic Light Emitting Diodes for Lighting Applications

The efficiency and lifetime of white organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) have now reached at sufficient level for practical use in displays and lightings. High-resolution OLED TVs can be fabricated with highly-efficient white OLEDs and color filters. There are several attractive features in white OLEDs such as non-glare, less blue-light, high color-rendering index, linear brightness control, thin and lightweight, that are great advantage for the lighting applications. In this paper, first some key technologies for highly-efficient white OLEDs are explained, and then new material challenge for next-generation OLED is discussed. In addition, the latest researches on flexible OLEDs are also shown in some photographs. Finally, well-designed lightings for Smart Mirai House are introduced.