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As one of the core team partners within the European pilot line project PI-SCALE, Fraunhofer FEP presents the first demonstrators of flexible OLED from this project at the IDW 23rd International Display Workshops in Fukuoka, Japan, from Dec. 7-9, 2016.
Many high tech SMEs in Europe lack access to advanced, cost-intensive infrastructures and expertise needed to manufacture new and innovative products. The European Pilot Line Initiative PI-SCALE is focusing on especially this gap – to help companies take photonic technologies from lab into market by creating a world-leading open access pilot line in Europe for the manufacturing and system-level integration of flexible OLEDs.
Flexible OLED lighting applications are supposed to open up a wide range of new possibilities for special lighting applications e.g. in medical applications for light therapy, in architecture, aircraft and railway as a lightweight opportunity, for various touch-display applications in automotive industry. Ideas for such applications and a lot of OLED products already exist.
In 2016 the PI-SCALE project started with the ambition to create a world-leading open access pilot line, based in Europe, for companies interested in the manufacture and system-level integration of flexible OLEDs into products. This will be achieved by bringing together the very best of the existing European infrastructure and know-how on flexible OLEDs from different locations into one pilot line. The pilot line service will enable companies of all sizes to quickly and cost effectively test and scale up their flexible OLED lighting or signage concepts and bring them to a level where they are ready to be transferred to a mass production facility.
Fraunhofer FEP is responsible for the R2R anode deposition on barrier web, which is produced by the project partner Holst Centre as well as for the OLED-deposition by using evaporation processes. The OLED-deposition at Fraunhofer FEP can be done in roll-to-roll (R2R) and sheet-to-sheet (S2S) processes. In R2R it is possible to produce endless long stripes with up to 30 lm/W and in S2S high quality OLEDs with a high performance can be produced. As substrates the pilot line mainly uses plastic web and ultra-thin-glass.
“We could demonstrate that the S2S and R2R process flows of the pilot line are working by producing up to 15 meter long OLED-stripes with an efficiency higher than 30 lm/W and with nearly 100% yield,” said project leader Claudia Keibler from Fraunhofer FEP.
From July 2017, the pilot line service will be ready to supply customers with unique customized flexible OLEDs on thin-glass as well as on plastic foil, which can be produced in R2R and S2S.
One of these first flexible OLED resulting from PI-SCALE and processed in R2R on ultra-thin glass by Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd. will be presented at IDW 2016.
This project is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 688093.
Many high tech SMEs in Europe lack access to advanced, cost-intensive infrastructures and expertise needed to manufacture new and innovative products. The European Pilot Line Initiative PI-SCALE is focusing on especially this gap – to help companies take photonic technologies from lab into market by creating a world-leading open access pilot line in Europe for the manufacturing and system-level integration of flexible OLEDs.
Flexible OLED lighting applications are supposed to open up a wide range of new possibilities for special lighting applications e.g. in medical applications for light therapy, in architecture, aircraft and railway as a lightweight opportunity, for various touch-display applications in automotive industry. Ideas for such applications and a lot of OLED products already exist.
In 2016 the PI-SCALE project started with the ambition to create a world-leading open access pilot line, based in Europe, for companies interested in the manufacture and system-level integration of flexible OLEDs into products. This will be achieved by bringing together the very best of the existing European infrastructure and know-how on flexible OLEDs from different locations into one pilot line. The pilot line service will enable companies of all sizes to quickly and cost effectively test and scale up their flexible OLED lighting or signage concepts and bring them to a level where they are ready to be transferred to a mass production facility.
Fraunhofer FEP is responsible for the R2R anode deposition on barrier web, which is produced by the project partner Holst Centre as well as for the OLED-deposition by using evaporation processes. The OLED-deposition at Fraunhofer FEP can be done in roll-to-roll (R2R) and sheet-to-sheet (S2S) processes. In R2R it is possible to produce endless long stripes with up to 30 lm/W and in S2S high quality OLEDs with a high performance can be produced. As substrates the pilot line mainly uses plastic web and ultra-thin-glass.
“We could demonstrate that the S2S and R2R process flows of the pilot line are working by producing up to 15 meter long OLED-stripes with an efficiency higher than 30 lm/W and with nearly 100% yield,” said project leader Claudia Keibler from Fraunhofer FEP.
From July 2017, the pilot line service will be ready to supply customers with unique customized flexible OLEDs on thin-glass as well as on plastic foil, which can be produced in R2R and S2S.
One of these first flexible OLED resulting from PI-SCALE and processed in R2R on ultra-thin glass by Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd. will be presented at IDW 2016.
This project is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 688093.