New technology boasts electricity consumption efficiency of over 70 1m/W.

Expected to carve out global lighting market niche worth 3 trillion won.

(Photo) ETRI-developed OLED lighting, considered on par with Korea's best OLED lighting technology.

A Korean research team has developed a core technology for Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) lighting, an eco-friendly 'green growth' lighting technology that is replacing conventional florescent lamps and glow lamps.The Electronic and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI, President Choi Moon-ki) said on May 20 that it had developed a white OLED lamp for lighting that boasts an electricity consumption efficiency of 70 1m/W, the highest level in Korea.

OLED technology is considered an exemplar of "eco-friendly green growth" lighting due to its energy efficiency, which is higher than either florescent lamps or glow lamps, reduced carbon dioxide emission, and non-production of mercury, a by-product of both florescent and glow lamps.

Numerous countries around the world are currently racing to develop OLED lighting together with other next-generation lighting devices, including LED lighting.

OLED lighting is not only thin and lightweight, but it also offers a transparent and flexible lighting source. Hence, it is a highly versatile technology.

with numerous potential applications owing to a host of advantages in terms of its high efficiency, long durability, low cost and lighting design.

ETRI said the development is notable in that Korea has now secured a high level of technology in the white OLED lighting sector that is on par with that of advanced countries. Korea had previously been saddled with a more than five-year technology gap in the sector in relation to those countries.

Experts say that the development will also allow Korea to join the race for high-performance lighting, which has traditionally been led by advanced countries, and to advance the commercialization of OLED lighting by banking on the new technology.

Cho Hye-yong, head of the ETRI's OLED lighting research team, said, "OLED lighting shares the same industry infrastructure and value chain as the OLED display, and if Korea can proactively take advantage of its industrial environment as the top producer of OLED displays, it will be able to dominate the next-generation lighting market."

In the meantime, ETRI plans to hold an "OLED lighting design contest" from May 25 to August 31 in an effort to promote and propagate OLED lighting.

ETRI will seek to hold the contest as an annual event, and identify talented designers and excellent designs that make the most of OLED technology as a flat lighting source. The Institute expects excellent designs and talented designers will contribute to the early industrialization of OLED lighting by making the most of Korea's superior OLED production infrastructure.

The institute plans to make prototype products based on the contest's winning designs, and exhibit them at the "IMID international display exhibition" in October in order to promote OLED lighting.

(Photo) Poster for the OLED lighting design contest.

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[May 27, 2009]
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