The main focus of the events on the Building KnowLEDge Tour is on LED applications in the shop, office and hospitality sectors, as well as the corresponding innovative building technologies. According to Osram, the events showcase “efficient complete solutions which combine all trades as economically and flexibly as never before”.
There is still time to attend the tour which travels via Copenhagen, Stockholm and Warsaw in August and September. During the events, highly qualified Osram and Siemens specialists will present these three application areas at specially designed booths, and will provide detailed information on the topics of LED basic knowledge, lighting design with LEDs, lighting control and intelligent building services engineering within four expert forums.
The events of the Building KnowLEDge Tour are free of charge. Each event, regardless in which city, starts at 12:30 and ends at 20:00. The four different presentations start at 13:30 and again at 16:30.
Record-breaking efficiency
Meanwhile, Osram recentlyu celebrated maintaining its position as leading company in the OLED sector with new peak in laboratory findings. Researchers and developers from the company have achieved a new efficiency record in the laboratory for OLED achieving 87 lm/W, significantly exceeding the current peak value by 40%.
This means that OLEDs are almost achieving the efficiency of fluorescent lamps in the laboratory. The OLED laboratory sample was prepared using a pure thin-film approach. The current was distributed evenly over the active surface using a special injection electrode on the light-generating surface and offers homogenous light density from every angle. The aesthetic impression is not disrupted by visible electrode structures. Osram is keen to emphasise that the manufacture of the sample is “highly product-proximate”, thus paving the way for highly energy-efficient OLED products with considerably higher brightness. It says plans for industrialisation are already being evaluated.
"We have made a key breakthrough with the laboratory sample. For the first time we have managed to obtain such high efficiency whilst retaining both aesthetic and technological characteristics such as lifetime, robustness and extreme flatness in a thin-film approach – in other words, we have given the panel the characteristics that are also central for future series production," says Thomas Dobbertin, head of OLED technology at Osram .
OLED research at Osram is funded via the TOPAS 2012 project of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The focus of the research work of TOPAS 2012 is upon the development of OLED as the lighting of the future. "With our new peak value we have taken a major step towards our goal of achieving 100 lm/W," says Thomas Dobbertin.
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