OLED100.eu, an integrated research project, brings together a consortium of experts from leading industry and academic organizations to accelerate the development of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technologies in Europe. It receives €12.5 million funding by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme to form the technological basis for efficient OLED applications for the general lighting industry in Europe.

The consortium will focus on five main goals:

• High power efficacy (100 lm/W)

• Long lifetime (100.000 h)

• Large area (100x100 cm2)

• Low-cost (100 Euro/m2)

• Measurement standardization / application research

 
Start date: September 1st 2008
End date: August 31st 2011

Additional project information is available on: http://www.oled100.eu/

OLED lighting is at least 5 times more efficient than conventional incandescent lighting. Widespread adoption of OLED lighting could actually result in a decrease in greenhouse gas emissions. Combined with sensors and ICT to implement 'smart-lighting', OLED lighting can further reduce energy consumption and deliver the highest quality of light.

Within the project Océ’s CrystalPoint technology is evaluated as a patterning process for low cost OLED substrates.

HIPPER (High-tech Professional PrintER) prepares inkjet technology for mass production in industrial print applications. The project receives €0.5 million funding by the Point-One program to demonstrate inkjet in a roadmap towards large area printing with a drop positioning accuracy of several micrometers. 

Start date: July 1st 2008
End date: December 31st 2010

Océ’s CrystalPoint printhead is integrated in the Pixdro LP50 platform

The project Prototyping Inkjet Applications explores the technical and commercial feasibility of four industrial inkjet applications:

• Solar cells

• Switching membranes

• Decoration of Trespa panels

• Security labels

The project receives €2.2 million funding by the Dutch subsidy program “Pieken-in-de-Delta”. 

Start date: January 1st 2009
End date: December 31st 2011

Inkjet technology improves the energy output of a solar cell by a high resolution grid of conductive fingers