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Carbon Trust backs technology for light emitting wallpaper

12/1/2010

New lighting technology can reduce energy consumption by 60 per cent.

The Carbon Trust has awarded a £454,000 grant to a company developing ultra-efficient organic LED (OLED) lighting technology. The OLED materials, being pioneered by North Wales based Lomox, have a wide variety of applications and when coated onto a film could be used to cover walls creating a light emitting wallpaper that could render light bulbs obsolete.

Operating lifetime has traditionally been a problem with OLED technology, but Lomox has found a way to achieve significantly longer lifetimes than fluorescent lamps.  The technology will also be more efficient (producing 150 lumens/Watt) as it only emits light along one axis.  OLEDs can produce a more natural looking light than other forms of lighting.

Read more about this and other innovations in our article, Five ideas for 2010.