Osram is a world famous name when it comes to light bulbs as well as lighting solutions around the home and in commercial areas. Well, it goes without saying that said company is not content with resting on their own laurels, where researchers and developers there managed to achieve a new efficiency record in the laboratory for OLED technology. Said laboratory sample hit 87 lm/W, which exceeds the current peak value by an exceeding amount – and even more encouraging is the fact that said laboratory sample is highly proximate to the product (in layman’s terms, very close to what an actual product might be), which means highly energy-efficient OLED products with considerably higher brightness could very well be on their way to the nearest store shelf soon.
According to Thomas Dobbertin, head of OLED technology at OSRAM, “We have made a key breakthrough with the laboratory sample. For the first time we have managed to obtain such high efficiency whilst retaining both aesthetic and technological characteristics such as lifetime, robustness and extreme flatness in a thin-film approach – in other words, we have given the panel the characteristics that are also central for future series production”.
Hopefully these new OLED lights will be out sooner rather than later – the world needs all the energy efficiency it can get to last for the next generation.
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