the customer can quickly test the LED in its desired application

Philips reported a $482 million fourth-quarter net loss, doubling 2011's $218 million loss, and warned that the company will go through a slow start this year. Philips managed to save $635 million at the close of 2012. Van Houten pledged to target $1.48 billion in savings by 2014, according to the Wall Street Journal.

With its “LED Evaluation Kit”, Sharp has developed a new powerful marketing tool for the Mega ZENIGATA which allows customers to easily test the Sharp LEDs for later use in the desired application. The evaluation kits are available for all power output classes of Mega ZENIGATA LEDs (15 W, 25 W, 35 W, 50 W). The “LED Evaluation Kit” includes not only the desired Mega LED ZENIGATA but also all the necessary accessory components, such as mechanically prefabricated heat sinks, thermal paste, and the appropriate power supply, so that the customer can quickly test the LED in its desired application. As technical assistance, each kit comes with a short instruction manual for installation.

This € 14.7 m project was supported by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) over a three and a half year period and addressed the complete value chain, from primary OLED materials through to OLED-lighting applications. Several of the promising innovations created within the project will now be brought to market by the participants of the So-Light project.

The project partners Novaled, Sensient, University Muenster,  Fraunhofer-COMEDD, AIXTRON, LEDON OLED Lighting, Fresnel Optics, HELLA, Siteco, BMG MIS (former AEG MIS) and the University of Paderborn/L-LAB cooperated in a variety of OLED technology areas. These activities created several innovative results related to materials, processes, optical elements and process integration. For some specific applications prototypes have been developed for OLED-signage and speciality applications for markets such as automotive, architectural lighting and transport. The aim of So-Light was to combine as many of the materials and component related results into design studies and prototypes in order to strengthen Germany’s leading role in the growing OLED-market.