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Bayer MaterialScience, Osram Jointly Develop Light Extraction Film for OLED Surface-Emitting Panels

Light yield improved by up to 60 percent

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Thanks to their low energy consumption, long service life and high-quality light, organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs for short, are being proclaimed as the light source of the future. Working in partnership with Osram, Bayer MaterialScience has now developed Makrofol TP 228, a highly efficient, polycarbonate-based light extraction film that is being used in the first OLED surface-emitting panel to be sold on a broad commercial basis – the Orbeos from Osram. “As a light extraction layer ...

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