Innovative High-Performance Deposition Technology for Low-Cost Manufacturing of OLED Lighting
- OLEDWorks LLC, Rochester, NY (United States)
In this project, OLEDWorks developed and demonstrated the innovative high-performance deposition technology required to deliver dramatic reductions in the cost of manufacturing OLED lighting in production equipment. The current high manufacturing cost of OLED lighting is the most urgent barrier to its market acceptance. The new deposition technology delivers solutions to the two largest parts of the manufacturing cost problem – the expense per area of good product for organic materials and for the capital cost and depreciation of the equipment. Organic materials cost is the largest expense item in the bill of materials and is predicted to remain so through 2020. The high-performance deposition technology developed in this project, also known as the next generation source (NGS), increases material usage efficiency from 25% found in current Gen2 deposition technology to 60%. This improvement alone results in a reduction of approximately 25 USD/m2 of good product in organic materials costs, independent of production volumes. Additionally, this innovative deposition technology reduces the total depreciation cost from the estimated value of approximately 780 USD/m2 of good product for state-of-the-art G2 lines (at capacity, 5-year straight line depreciation) to 170 USD/m2 of good product from the OLEDWorks production line.
- Research Organization:
- OLEDWorks LLC, Rochester, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Building Technologies Office; National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, and Morgantown, WV (United States); New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- EE0006263; 35375
- OSTI ID:
- 1430663
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-OLED-06263
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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