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TECH REPORT

What You

REALLY Need to

Know About OLEDs

& More

We sat down with David LaVigna,

president of 0energyLIGHTING –

a company ofering fully designed
and integrated lighting solutions

from product development & OEM

fabrication to energy retrofts and

design/build applications – to discuss

where lighting technology is headed.

EnLIGHTenment Magazine: Readers have been There have been technological developments in
asking, “Is OLED geting more afordable?” and the way that OLEDs are manufactured, but the big-
“How practical and relevant will it be for my gest and most important one (in my opinion) is the
business?” What’s your opinion? introduction of polymer that allows OLEDs a fex-
David LaVigna: I think the short answer is “Yes, ible and pliable medium that can be put into the
it has become relatively more afordable, more hands of luminaire and fxture designers. That said,
practical, and more relevant” — but that doesn’t I believe it’s going to require these designers to use
necessarily mean afordable, practical, and relevant their imagination and creativity to help propagate
for widespread use and acceptance in the market- OLED as a viable and accepted illumination source.
place. There is a huge issue with the overlapping As we have seen with other technologies, we re-
value propositions between OLED and LED tech- ally do need to monitor the OLED display market
nology in today’s current market. in order to understand the impact. The display

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