Verbatim has launched the world's first commercially available, colour tunable organic LED (OLED) lighting panels. They are based on materials technology developed by the parent company, Mitsubishi Chemical Holding Group.
The panels are also claimed to be the world's largest, at 140x140mm and were shown in a display created by lighting designer Satoshi Uchihara in the Design Library, Milan, Italy.
The large surfaces of Velve OLEDs produce a soft light, free from glare and with deeply saturated colours. The OLEDs, which do not contain hazardous materials, are efficient, producing 28lumens/W output at 1000cd/m2 with accurate colour rendering. Colour tuning and white tone tuning allow the mood of a space to be varied to suit its function or theme at the time. For example, it may be changed from a workspace requiring bright, cool light, to a place of relaxation with warm, subdued lighting.
To simplify development work, there is a sample kit for lighting engineers and development engineers. It contains an OLED that can be connected directly to the mains. It can be used to evaluate seven pre-programmed saturated colours, white tone tunability and a dimming function. There is also an OLED module with a PCB that provides an industry-standard DMX interface for RGB colour conotrol and a DALI interface for white tunability.
Full-scale production of OLED panels will start from July.
