OLEDWORKS LLC — Department of Energy SBIR Phase I: 14b
OLEDWORKS LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Energy.
Phase I SBIR feasibility signal
- Phase I awards fund proof-of-concept work. For capture teams, they mark early interest from Department of Energy in a technical approach.
- Watch for Phase II follow-ons from the same firm/topic family — that conversion path is where budgets and transition pressure rise.
- Obligated amount $150,000. Cross-check similar awards in the same agency and technology tags for going-rate context.
- Topic code 14b links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $150,000
- Agency
- Department of Energy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- 14b
- Solicitation
- DE-FOA-0001770
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- NY
- Period
- 2018-04-09 → 2019-01-08
Description
The OLED lighting market requires significant acceleration to realize its promise of expanding SSL adoption, saving energy and creating US manufacturing jobs- The major barriers slowing the adoption of OLED lighting today are the relatively high cost and lower performance relative to LED lighting- Costs will come down by economies-of-scale as volumes grow, and OLED materials are becoming less expensive as OLED display volumes grow- However, innovations are needed to reduce the cost of substrates and to enable lower cost roll-to-roll (R2R) processing methods, while at the same time improving the energy efficiency of OLED lighting- In this project, OLEDWorks will develop a high efficacy and cost-effective flexible OLED lighting system which will reduce the cost of OLED light by introducing a combination of printable and scalable internal light extraction and transparent conductive silver nanowire technologies that are compatible with R2R methods, and demonstrate these technical advances on bendable glass and flexible plastic substrates- Higher power efficacy will be achieved by co-optimization of the internal extraction, silver nanowire anode, and stacked white OLED to reduce unwanted absorption, increase the outcoupling efficiency, and lower the OLED voltage- Through co-optimization of these component systems, world-class power efficacy of 100 lm/W or greater can be demonstrated in a flexible OLED lighting panel-