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Kodak Recognized by Frost & Sullivan for OLED Lighting Technology
Friday 22. May 2009 - Eastman Kodak Company has been named by Frost & Sullivan as the recipient of the 2009 OLED Lighting Enabling Technology of the Year Award in the field of Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) Solid State Lighting (SSL) Technology.
According to Frost & Sullivan, the Enabling Technology of the Year Award is presented to a company that has developed a technology that can benefit or revolutionize the industry. Kodak, a pioneer in the OLED field, was recognized for its development of systems and processes that will enable a future generation of low power, cost-effective OLED lighting systems. This award recognizes Kodak as a leader among major OLED lighting technology companies worldwide.
“Low-cost, energy-efficient OLED solid state lighting is a very promising future application, and is a direct result of Kodaks continued OLED innovation. We are committed to bringing this technology to market through collaboration with other leading companies,” said Corey Hewitt, Operations Manager and Vice President, Kodaks OLED Systems Business. “We are delighted to be recognized by a well-respected organization such as Frost & Sullivan. As we continue to develop new applications for Kodak OLED technology, we remain dedicated to finding sustainable solutions that will some day result in cost-effective lighting systems that consume as much as 50% less energy”.
Kodak will display the Frost & Sullivan award and will demonstrate its other OLED advances in the companys exhibit at the upcoming Society for Information Display Conference in San Antonio, Texas (June 1 – 5).
Highlights of the technical areas pertaining to the award are summarized below.
About Kodak OLED Lighting Technology
KODAK Vapor Injection Source Technology (VIST): This technology significantly reduces the manufacturing cost of OLED lighting panels by increasing material utilization and reducing TACT time.
Kodaks Monolithic-Integrated Serial Connection Panel Architecture: This innovative design allows for economical fabrication of large-area lighting panels with reduced voltage drop. This structure is fault tolerant, thereby reducing the impact of shorting defects and improving manufacturing yield.
Highly Efficient Lighting Architectures: Kodak has leveraged its proprietary White OLED technology and materials expertise to demonstrate efficacies >60 lm/W. This remarkable achievement also meets the Department of Energys Energy Star Program specifications for color and color rendering index, which is a requirement for sale into the U.S. market. Kodak has developed novel light extraction structures that more than double the out-coupling efficiency of OLEDs. Since lifetime is an important feature for OLED lighting products, Kodak has focused on all-fluorescent and hybrid emitter systems due to their expected higher lifetime in comparison to all-phosphorescent emitter systems.