RTI's Energy-Efficient Nanofiber-Based Lighting Technology

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Energy-Efficient Lighting Made Without Mercury

ScienceDaily (Feb. 11, 2010) — RTI International has developed a revolutionary lighting technology that is more energy efficient than the common incandescent light bulb and does not contain mercury, making it environmentally safer than the compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb.

 At the core of RTI's breakthrough is an advanced nanofiber structure that provides exceptional lighting management. Nanofibers are materials with diameters and surface features much smaller than the human hair but with comparable lengths.

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RTI International - News Release - 2.8.2010

RTI International Develops Technology to Make Energy-Efficient Lighting

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"By using flexible photoluminescent nanofiber technologies for light management, RTI has opened the door to the creation of new designs for solid-state lighting applications," says Lynn Davis, Ph.D., director of RTI's Nanoscale Materials Program. "This new class of materials can provide cost-effective, safe and efficient lighting solutions."

Additionally, RTI's technology produces an aesthetically pleasing light with better color rendering properties than is typically found in CFLs. The technology has demonstrated color rendering indices in excess of 90 for warm white, neutral white, and cool white illumination sources.

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3. Nanofiber Lamps Are More Efficient Than Incandescent Bulbs, Eco-FriendlierThan Fluorescent | Popular Science
4. Researchers Develop Nanofiber-Based Technology to Make Energy-Efficient Lighting
5. Nanofiber Bulbs are Efficient, Environmentally Sound | Inhabitat
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Lomox Light-Emitting Wallpaper

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Glowing walls could kill off the light bulb

Light-emitting wallpaper may begin to replace light bulbs from 2012, according
to a government body that supports low-carbon technology.

A chemical coating on the walls will illuminate all parts of the room with an
even glow, which mimics sunlight and avoids the shadows and glare of
conventional bulbs.

Organic LEDs could kill off the light bulb, first created by Thomas Edison

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Bright future for lighting technology with glowing OLED wallpaper

The paper-thin OLED material is capable of emitting light almost as bright as fluorescent lightbulbs. Photograph: Everett Kennedy Brown/EPA

Lomox Limited, a two-year-old company based in north Wales, awarded more than £450,000 today by the government-backed Carbon Trust to accelerate the development of its OLED technology.

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LOMOX^® - An OLED Development Company

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It is hoped the technology will help cut carbon emissions from lighting in the next few years.

The company said it can also be used for flat screen televisions, computers and mobile phone displays.

And because it needs a very low operating voltage - of just three to five volts - it can be powered by solar panels or batteries, so it can be used outside to light road signs and barriers without the need for mains electricity.

Ken Lacey, chief executive of Lomox Ltd, which is attempting to bring the technology to market, said the company hoped to make it available to lighting and screen producers by 2012, with outdoor applications leading the way.

This technology has the potential to produce ultra efficient lighting for a wide range of applications, tapping into a huge global market Mark Williamson, Carbon Trust

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2. Bright future for lighting technology with glowing OLED wallpaper | Environment | guardian.co.uk
3. Revolutionary ‘light emitting wallpaper’ could start to replace light bulbs in 2012
4. Switch on the wallpaper: Glow in the dark paper that could replace conventional light bulbs within a decade | Mail Online
5. OLED Display, Low Energy Light, LOMOX® - An OLED Development Company
6. BBC News - 'Light emitting wallpaper' could replace bulbs

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2. Lomox Getting Closer to Bringing Us Glowing Wallpaper : TreeHugger
3. Light-Emitting Wallpaper Using OLED Technology Could Light Our Homes By 2012 - Oled wallpaper - Gizmodo
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Flexible OLEDs Lighting

clipped from www.youtube.com The future of lighting: flexible OLEDs in any shape and color Once flexible OLED lighting can be produced on Roll-to-Roll, a load of new applications can be envisaged. Do it yourself lighting foil that you can cut in any shape you want. Or energy efficient camper lighting you can stick to the ceiling or walls. Holst Centre and its partners are world-leading in the domain by demonstrating a flexible OLED tile without the use of ITO and with printed shunting lines. Whats more, the 12x12cm2 white OLED tile can be cut as is shown in the movie. More at http://www.oled-display.net clipped from www.holstcentre.com See also: Press release (English / Dutch) Shared program on flexible lighting and signage clipped from www.youtube.com GE OLEDs - the future of lighting clipped from www.oled-info.com GE shows OLED lighting concepts video GE has produced a nice video showing all sorts of design concepts using thin, flexible OLED lighting panels. There's wearable OLEDs for emergency safety gear, illuminated stairs, walls and signs in stores and a nice "wall peel" OLED lamp:

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3. General Electric OLED Sheets Double Efficiency as Organic Light Emitting Diodes Prices Lower - Popular Mechanics
4. Flexible Oleds. Lighting''''s Future? | Product Design and Development

OLED100.EU -- A New Light On Lighting

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ABOUT OLED100.EU



The goal of OLED100.eu is to develop all the necessary technologies needed to produce efficient OLED products for exploitation by the European lighting industry.
Targets set by the project include achieving 100 lumens per watt power efficiency, more than 100,000 ‘lifetime hours’, a unit area of 100cm by 100cm and costs of €100 per square metre or less.

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A new light on energy efficiency

Lighting accounts for a quarter of energy costs in Europe. Replacing outdated light bulbs with more advanced devices is an efficient way to cut our energy bill. Science and industry have joined forces in a European project to develop cheap and stylish alternatives to modern lighting.

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Organic light-emitting diode

An Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED), also Light Emitting Polymer (LEP) and Organic Electro Luminescence (OEL), is any Light Emitting Diode (LED) whose emissive electroluminescent layer is composed of a film of organic compounds. The layer usually contains a polymer substance that allows suitable organic compounds to be deposited. They are deposited in rows and columns onto a flat carrier by a simple "printing" process. The resulting matrix of pixels can emit light of different colors.

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OLED Components

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The overall goal of OLED100.eu is to develop all the necessary technologies forming the basis for efficient OLED applications for the general lighting industry in Europe.

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For general lighting, OLEDs have to compete with existing and upcoming lighting solutions achieving power efficacies of up to 100 lm/W (fluorescent tubes) and operational lifetimes of up to 100.000 h (inorganic LEDs). In addition, OLEDs have to make use of their revolutionary form factor allowing flat light sources covering square meters.

This translates to the five main objectives:
-High power efficacy (100 lm/W)
-Long lifetime (100.000 h)
-Large area (100x100 cm2)
-Low-cost (100 Euro/m2)
-System integration / standardization / application

OLED100.eu has assembled a consortium with outstanding experts from leading industry and academic groups. The participation of lamp manufacturers like Philips and Osram ensures a rapid transfer of any result into real products. OLED100.eu will strengthen the leading position of the European Lighting Industry and create long-term manufacturing jobs. Finally, the IP generated in new process and product domains will protect these advances from Asian and US competition.

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Printable OLED Breakthrough

GE Global Research demonstrated the possibility of printing a light-emitting organic film in a newspaper-printing like roll-to-roll process.

clipped from www.businesswire.com GE Demonstrates World's First ''Roll-to-Roll'' Manufactured Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) NISKAYUNA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Global Research, the centralized research organization of General Electric (NYSE: GE), and GE Consumer & Industrial, today announced the successful demonstration of the world’s first roll-to-roll manufactured organic light-emitting diode (OLED) lighting devices. This demonstration is a key step toward making OLEDs and other high performance organic electronics products at dramatically lower costs than what is possible today. clipped from www.ecogeek.org why is this important? Because the OLED (organic light emitting diode) film is extremely efficient. Because printing roll to roll makes OLEDs far easier to mass produce, and thus cheaper. Because OLEDs can be used in a huge variety of lighting applications, moving the world beyond lightbulbs and into a whole new paradigm of lighting.

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GE Announces Printable OLED Breakthrough | EcoGeek
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