Universal Display Corporation (Ewing, NJ), which offers UniversalPHOLED™ technology and materials, has been awarded, along with Moser Baer Technologies, $4 million for a two-year program from the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE), under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, for a program titled “Creation of a U.S. Phosphorescent OLED Lighting Panel Manufacturing Facility.”
The program represents a step toward the establishment of high-volume manufacturing of white, OLED-lighting panels in the U.S.
Under the new program, Universal Display will demonstrate the scalability of its proprietary UniversalPHOLED technology and materials for the manufacture of white, OLED-lighting panels that meet commercial lighting targets. Moser Baer Technologies, a U.S. subsidiary of Moser Baer India, will design and build the U.S.-based pilot facility during this program.
It has been estimated that, by 2016, white OLEDs could generate well over $20 billion in worldwide savings of electricity costs and could save over nine million metric tons of carbon emissions from the U.S. alone.