Expert's Opinion

OLED Lighting: Will It Eventually Disrupt or Fade Away?

IDTechEx still remains optimistic about the long-term prospects of this technology.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

The OLED lighting technology faced a difficult challenge since the very beginning in the shape of inorganic LEDs. The challenge was that LED lighting got there first and leveraged its accumulated production experience to improve its performance and to reduce its costs. This in turn created a large gap between the two technologies that shows no signs of narrowing.   The OLED lighting industry generally had a confused commercialization strategy. The LED incumbents viewed OLED technology as a thr...

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