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    Expert's Opinion

    OLED Lighting: Will It Eventually Disrupt or Fade Away?

    IDTechEx still remains optimistic about the long-term prospects of this technology.

    Dr Khasha Ghaffarzadeh, Head of Consulting, IDTechEx04.19.16
    The OLED lighting technology faced a difficult challenge since the very beginning in the shape of inorganic LEDs. The challenge was that LED lighting got there first and leveraged its accumulated production experience to improve its performance and to reduce its costs. This in turn created a large gap between the two technologies that shows no signs of narrowing.
     
    The OLED lighting industry generally had a confused commercialization strategy. The LED incumbents viewed OLED technology as a threat and as such invested only to hedge their bets. Some ignored the potential uniqueness of OLED lighting, trapping themselves in the rigid (glass-based) and/or high-power corner of the markets.
     
    Unsurprisingly, all these led to failures and disillusionment. Many simply gave up and now few committed players remain. Most notable amongst them are LG Chem and Konica Minolta. Both are from Asia and both see in OLED lighting a way into the immense prize that is the lighting market.
     
    We got it right, so far
     
    IDTechEx Research had anticipated these trends and developments in its market research report “OLED Lighting Opportunities 2015-2025: Forecasts, Technologies, Players.” We had warned about the consolidation, confused commercialization strategies and also the limited short-term market prospects of OLED lighting technology. Indeed, in 2014, we forecast that the market would be smaller than $80 million by 2018 and we still think that this will hold true.
     
    We even correctly modeled and anticipated the price evolution of OLED panels. We anticipated in 2013 that the production cost will reduce to around $200/klm by 2015. This was confirmed when LG Chem announced a very aggressive sales price of $200/klm in mid-2015. Our model enabled us to conclude that the panels were being sold at or below cost in order to stimulate the market. 
     
    What does the future hold for OLED lighting?
     
    IDTechEx Research had also forecasted that OLED lighting will reach more than $1.8 billion in 2025 at the panel level. We still remain optimistic about the long-term prospects of this technology. This is because OLED lighting exhibits key characteristics of a disruptive technology: it underperforms and is overpriced when measured on the standard industry figures-of-merit such as lm/W and $/klm; but it can create new markets that value novel figures-of-merit such as large areas emission, light-weight and flexibility.
     
    IDTechEx Research believes that OLED lighting can exploit these differentiators to cultivate a series of niche markets and use its accumulated industry experience to become good enough in an increasingly series of established segments.
     
    This process will be helped by two fundamental characteristics of the lighting market: enormous product diversity and importance of aesthetics. This is in contrast to, for example, the photovoltaic market where there is little product diversity therefore emerging technologies as OPVs find it exceedingly hard to create niches.
     
    Ultimately, however, the future will depend on whether the believers will keep faith through this period of disillusionment. We certainly hope that they do.
     
    IDTechEx guides your strategic business decisions through its Research and Events services, helping you profit from emerging technologies. We provide independent research, business intelligence and advice to companies across the value chain based on our core research activities and methodologies providing data sought by business leaders, strategists and emerging technology scouts to aid their business decisions. Learn more at www.IDTechEx.com and to discuss your needs please contact us on research@IDTechEx.com.
     

     
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