and Matsushita Electric Industrial will become the first Japanese companies to mass produce organic electroluminescent, or OEL, display panels, the Nikkei newspaper reported, without saying where it obtained the information. Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology, 60 percent owned by Toshiba and 40 percent by Matsushita, plans to produce 1 million 2.5 inch (6.3 centimeter) panels per month for use with devices such as mobile phones and car navigation systems beginning in the northern hemisphere's autumn of next year, the report said

Based on its recent analysis of the OLED display market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Samsung SDI with the 2007 Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership of the Year Award.

Japanese LED maker Nichia Corporation has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in Germany against its Korean rival, Seoul Semiconductor Co. Ltd. The lawsuit claims that Seoul's Acriche series white LED product infringes the Nichia patent EP(DE)622858.

Seoul Semiconductor has a confident position to Nichia's assertion regarding to patent infringement because Acriche uses different technology from Nichia’s patent range.

ViewSonic Corp is all set to benefit its partners this month with the announcement of it's channel scheme 'ViewSonic Enlivens 2008'.

An Australian company BluGlass Ltd has developed a cheaper process of making LEDs by almost half. The process reduces polluting materials required in the manufacture of LEDS.

Researchers at Purdue University have overcome a major obstacle in reducing the cost of "solid state lighting," a technology that could cut electricity consumption by 10 percent if widely adopted.

BluGlass, an Australian company that has developed low-cost manufacturing technology for growing GaN-based material for LEDs, has opened its new headquarters and demonstration plant at Silverwater, Sydney.

Solar-powered LED technology provider Carmanah Technologies Corporation has partnered with Encom Wireless Data Solutions Inc. to add a wireless interface capability to its line of stand-alone solar-powered traffic beacons.

...In order to beat their Korean rivals and regain past glory as global leaders in the display segment, leading Japanese display makers recently formed a united front with support from the Japanese government. Sony, Sharp, Toshiba and Panasonic joined forces in the development of technology for the mass production of larger-sized AM OLED panels over 40 inches financed by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

The Linde Group offers a unique solution to replace the powerful greenhouse gas nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) used in the production of LCDs and solar panels.

Merck KGaA and DELO Industrial Adhesives announced today that they have formed a strategic partnership in the field of OLED technology.

New electronic chemicals developed by chemists could pave the way for the development of OLEDs that promise more efficient energy savings and could render todays incandescent light bulbs and fluorescent bulbs obsolete.

The EU-supported project OLLA , backed with EUR 12 million in financing, may have come to an end, but the consortium has announced an extended collaboration via the OLED100.eu project. The partnership forged between leading European companies will tackle OLED lighting technology. The project's aim is to improve the efficiency, lifetime and size of the light-emitting diodes.

Austin, Texas-based Nuventix, which makes low cost, energy-efficient cooling technology for LEDs and consumer electronics, has received $14 million in third round funding led by Advanced Technology Ventures. Braemar Energy Ventures also joined the round.

Lumex announces the launch of two new high-power LED technologies, TitanBrite and SuperBeam that provide bright, intense light with low power consumption.

"We are opting either to combine it with an envisioned joint venture with Samsung SDI on AM OLED displays or send the mobile LCD unit to Samsung SDI's Mobile Display Business Unit," a high-ranking Samsung Electronics official told The Korea Times.

Semiconductor-based lighting could cut the energy used by lighting in half, says the U.S. Department of Energy. Because lighting accounts for about one-fifth of all electricity used in the United States, that could add up to some US$98B in energy savings by 2020. DOE figures just replacing the country's 60W bulbs with 10W LEDs would save enough electricity to power all of Las Vegas for a year – twice. Indeed, the government is so keen on the idea it is offering up to US$20M in prize money to developers of viable commercial fixtures.

Sharp Corp exhibited a prototype of a 26-inch LCD TV whose power consumption is drastically low at the "Environment Showcase" set by Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the G8 Hokkaido-Toyako Summit.

Cree says it’s already working with the largely luminaire-level specifications, while the US government squabbles over energy-efficiency programs that use the standards.