OLED lighting characteristics and industry chain analysis

The answer is of course no, the biggest feature of OLED lighting technology and products is that they have high light quality, while the luminaire design and developers have great freedom to subvert people's lighting products to some extent. The inherent impression makes lighting more integrated into people's daily lives, such as mirror OLED lighting systems, translucent OLED lighting fixtures, flexible and affixable lighting products. Even in the field of ordinary surface lighting, OLED will continue to replace light-guide type LED products.

Compared with the LED lighting market, due to the inherent characteristics of OLED devices, the OLED lighting market presents some different industrial characteristics. With the advancement of technology and the continuous improvement of product performance, and the accumulation of a long period of time, according to the reports of the major OLED lighting manufacturers involved, the OLED lighting market is now mature, and small and medium-sized products are already in specific markets. Popularity, for example, more and more manufacturers of OLED lighting panels, the contours of the industry chain are constantly clear.

At present, the entire OLED lighting industry chain can be roughly divided into three parts. Upstream of the industry chain are suppliers of materials and components, such as organic semiconductor materials, electrode materials, substrate materials, light extraction materials, and the like. It is worth mentioning that, among them, the substrate supplier is likely to integrate the integrated electrode material and the light extraction material with the substrate, providing a complete substrate solution to the midstream panel makers. In foreign countries, there has been work on glass production. Based on a glass substrate, a complete set of collector and light extraction solutions has been developed, which not only simplifies the process but also reduces costs.

In the field of panel manufacturing in the middle reaches, because the organic semiconductor materials used in OLED devices are less environmentally tolerant, OLED panel manufacturers integrate panel manufacturing and packaging to provide packaged panels. This point will be very different in the LED lighting industry. The LED lighting industry is largely separated from the chip manufacturer and the packaging factory, and each other is an independent process, which will be difficult to see in the OLED lighting industry.

In the downstream of the OLED lighting industry, it will be the manufacturer of light sources and lamps. Based on the packaged OLED lighting panels, the final development of the corresponding light sources and lamps will be carried out according to the requirements of different lighting fields. Therefore, it can be inferred that the chain of the OLED lighting industry will be shorter than the LED lighting industry chain, and the integration capability of the industry will be stronger.

With the improvement of light efficiency, longevity, production cost, and the characteristics of OLED lighting panels, the future situation is likely to be the coexistence of LED and OLED lighting technology, parallel development, to meet the needs of different lighting applications.