OLED Lighting: Coming of Age

A Novel Lighting OLED Panel Design.

A novel OLED (organic light emitting diode) lighting panel, which uses a special layout design, can reduce the photolithography cycles and process costs and is more reliable. It only needs two steps of photolithography cycles, which include an ITO (InSnO compound transparent oxide) pattern and insulator pattern. There is no need for the metal bus pattern of the ordinary design. The OLED device ...

Evaluation of OLED and edge-lit LED lighting panels

Solid-state lighting (SSL) offers a new technology platform for lighting designers and end-users to illuminate spaces with low energy demand. Two types of SSL sources include organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and light-emitting diodes (LEDs). OLED is an area light source, and its primary competing technology is the edge-lit LED panel. Generally, both of these technologies are considered sim...

GaN Enabled OLED Driver for Automotive Lighting Application

The impressive features, both in a design and technical aspect, of the Organic LED (OLED) lighting technology have attracted the interest of the research and commercial world and have recently be in the spotlight of the automotive industries, like the Lighting Department of Audi. Some of the most exciting features of these lights are the flexibility, transparency and the very small thickness. I...

Coming of Age

Emotion Coming of Age

A s the articles in this special issue attest to, emotion is finally coming of age. Affect, as many of the authors suggest, serves a function—it aids survival, and affect regulation is a key human motive. People seek emotions because what emotion makes them feel—the conscious feelings of such things as pain and pleasure—aids survival by promoting approach and avoidance and other action tendenci...