{"id":228689,"date":"2026-01-10T01:24:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T07:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/oled-lighting-corrugated-panel-design-extends-longevity-and-efficiency"},"modified":"2026-01-10T01:24:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T07:24:05","slug":"oled-lighting-corrugated-panel-design-extends-longevity-and-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/oled-lighting-corrugated-panel-design-extends-longevity-and-efficiency","title":{"rendered":"OLED lighting: Corrugated panel design extends longevity and efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oled-lighting-corrugated-panel-design-extends-longevity-and-efficiency2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The organic light emitting diodes\u2014known widely as OLEDs\u2014that create vibrant smartphone displays could illuminate rooms, but current designs burn out too quickly at the high brightness needed for room lighting. A new approach overcomes this tradeoff by building OLEDs on a corrugated surface, packing more emitting material into a given lighting panel area to produce the same amount of light while operating the OLED itself at lower brightness.<\/p>\n<p>This corrugated panel strategy increased device lifespan by a factor of 2.7 compared to flat panels operated at the same current, according to a study led by the University of Michigan in collaboration with OLEDWorks and The Pennsylvania State University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the problems we solved along the way were daunting, in the end the new device performed tremendously better than predecessors. It\u2019s rewarding to see our ideas point towards a valid path to improve the efficiency and lifetime of OLED lighting,\u201d said Max Shtein, a professor of materials science and engineering and chemical engineering at U-M and co-corresponding author of the study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-67312-4\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The organic light emitting diodes\u2014known widely as OLEDs\u2014that create vibrant smartphone displays could illuminate rooms, but current designs burn out too quickly at the high brightness needed for room lighting. A new approach overcomes this tradeoff by building OLEDs on a corrugated surface, packing more emitting material into a given lighting panel area to produce [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}