LED and OLED Lighting

Currently, OLED’s lights (or, organic light emitting diodes) perform at a much lower efficiency than LED’s, ((inorganic) light emitting diodes) however, promising research is being performed right now by those in this special field. Nonetheless, compared to regular LED lights, OLED lights are much more lightweight sources of this particular kind of alternative lighting. This could be very important once the concerns of OLED’s are “ironed out,” so to speak.

LED and OLED light sources are already being used in abundance for certain types of lights. There are thousands of cellular phones, remote controls, MP3 players, and large screen mechanisms. For example: LED lighting as well as OLED lights are used for technology such as graphic displays, screen savers and much, much more.

Scientist face OLED and LED lighting concerns such as the operational parameters of the lights’ efficiency, failure modes and similar risks, optical damage, thermal stresses and more. However, for some of these concerns the existing, initial, ultimate benefits of LED and OLED lights are already unlikely to happen – such as lights overheating, for example. Today the typical LED lights are designed especially to work within a certain range. The lights are created to remain within a certain window of only 30 to 60 milliwatts of electric energy.

Phllip Lumileds introduced LED lights capable of absolutely continuous use at the level of only one watt this was a breakthrough of sorts in the LED lights research and developments of 1999. Much larger semiconductor die sizes because they needed to accommodate the much larger power input required for a proposition such as this. Then, in 2002, Lumileds created with five-watt LED lights were soon to be made available. A company called Cree, Inc. was successful in 2003 in furthering the design and efficiency of LED lights and their research (as well as other research) continues.

There are certain “Failure Modes” that are subjects of concern for the scientific growth of LED and OLED lighting in order to make the technology safer, dependable, and effective. The strides already made toward such goals leave us with a very promising notion of further progress for alternative LED and OLED lighting in the near future.

Incandescent light bulbs, which are much more commonly used, will emit light regardless of the current electrical polarity, negative or positive. However, LED technology has only developed to the point where the light comes strictly with the presence of positive electrical energy. Sudden failures in newer and more improved types of LED and / or OLED lights are uncommon – but not eliminated. The highest quality LED and OLED lights are, unfortunately, not completely without their potential flaws.