Toshiba rushes into OLED lighting market

Nikkei News reported on the 5th that Toshiba has developed an OLED lighting product that consumes power and brightness comparable to those of fluorescent lamps, and that it consumes more power than other existing products that have been sampled. Can be reduced to less than half. According to reports, Toshiba has developed a product with a size of 7x8cm and a luminous efficiency of 91 lumens/w, comparable to those of the same size, and Toshiba has established a mass production technology to further enhance its power saving performance and increase its lifespan. After cutting down on production costs, it is expected that it will be sold in 2014 and formally enter the OLED lighting market.

It has been reported that although the lifetime and brightness of OLED lighting are inferior to those of LED lighting that has begun to gain popularity, they are expected to be widely used in applications requiring a high degree of design because they have the characteristics that they emit light over the entire surface and do not feel hot when touched. On the lighting fixtures. According to reports, according to Fuji Keizai, a Japanese market research agency, the OLED lighting market in Japan will exceed 100 billion yen by 2020, but excessive manufacturing costs are still the biggest problem for OLED lighting. According to reports, OLED lighting with a side length of 15 cm currently costs tens of thousands of yen.