Manufacturing breakthrough to drive down costs
GE Global research has developed a method of manufacturing Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLEDs) lighting devices in a roll-to-roll manner. The development is a key step towards manufacturing OLEDs at a much lower cost that is possible at the moment.
The few organic electronics products currently on the market are made with more conventional batch processing, and are relatively high cost. A roll-to-roll manufacturing infrastructure that enables high performance and low cost devices will allow a more widespread adoption of organic electronics products.
Anil Duggal, manager of GE’s Advanced Technology Program in Organic Electronics, said: “Researchers have long dreamed of making OLEDs using a newspaper-printing like roll-to-roll process.
“Now we’ve shown that is possible. Commercial applications in lighting require low manufacturing costs, and this demonstration is a major milestone on our way to developing low cost OLED lighting devices.”
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