ITRI Shows OLED Lighting at TILS and LED Taiwan 2017
May 15, 2017
 
ITRI, a Taiwanese government-funded, R&D institute has been devoting efforts to OLED lighting. The institute continuously released new applied technologies and products in its “OLED Lighting Pavilion” set up at each edition of Taiwan International Lighting Show (TILS) between 2015 and 2017. Just before TILS and LED Taiwan 2017 took place in mid-April, Jupiter Hu, Ph.D. and deputy general director of Electronic and Optoelectronic System Research Laboratories, was interviewed by CENS. Hu said that the global market for OLED lighting products would expand to US$1.6 billion by 2020 from only US$140 million projected for 2017 (UBI data). Hu feels that commercial lighting and automotive lighting will serve as growth engines. Hu believes that OLEDs fits auto lamp designers' requirements for new, unique and personalized design options, such as flexibility and curved lighting surfaces, while making for enhancing driving safety thanks to non-glare light it provides. ITRI has set up its “OLED Lighting Pavilion” at TILS for three consecutive years since 2015, to show off its R&D achievements, and inspire more Taiwanese luminaire makers to work on such products. At TILS 2016, the pavilion showcased a variety of OLED applications, including household lights, makeup lights, automotive lights and decorative lights, jointly developed by ITRI and 11 Taiwanese companies. Among the biggest hit with visitors was the so-called “Green Lighting Curtain,” a large-sized luminous panel designed by ITRI and Chung Yuan Christian University with 150 OLED lighting panels with color temperature of 4,000K each but without color aberration, noted Hu. ITRI showed its flexible OLED engine, which measures 5cm wide by 20cm long with thickness and weight of only 0.6mm and 8 grams, respectively. 

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