Sumitomo Chemical to Exhibit Dual-Color Polymer OLED Lighting at Light+Building 2014

Mar. 7, 2014

--- "The Most Advanced Polymer OLED" ---

Sumitomo Chemical will exhibit its polymer OLED lighting at "Light+Building 2014," one of the world’s largest trade fairs for lighting and building technology, to be held in Frankfurt, Germany, from March 30 to April 4, 2014.

This is the second time for Sumitomo Chemical to exhibit its products at the trade fair, following its first participation in 2012. Sumitomo Chemical will run a booth at the trade fair, inviting the world-renowned Japanese lighting designer Motoko Ishii as art director, where its dual-color emission polymer OLED lighting will be displayed with the theme "The Most Advanced Polymer OLED."

Sumitomo Chemical’s exhibit, named "OLED COSMOS," is formed by polymer OLED lighting panels, expressing the infinite expanse of the universe. Its design indicates unlimited possibilities of polymer OLED ever expanding into the future.

The lighting panels used for "OLED COSMOS" feature bright colors of light, in contrast to delicate Japanese traditional colors produced by the lighting panels Sumitomo Chemical displayed in the previous trade fair. The lighting panels are also extremely thin, which has been difficult to achieve for conventional lighting.

Sumitomo Chemical is the first in the world^* to have developed technology to mass-produce dual-color emission OLED lighting panels where a single panel can be printed in two distinct colors based on the Company's highly advanced printing method. Following the exhibit at "Light+Building 2014," Sumitomo Chemical will start marketing its polymer OLED lighting panels in April 2014.

• Based on Sumitomo Chemical’s survey in February 2014

POLYMER OLED Homepage: http://www.sumitomo-chem.co.jp/english/pled/

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Features of Sumitomo Chemical’s Polymer OLED Lighting Technology

• Low-cost fabrication through an advanced printing process. 
• A variety of emission colors capable of being produced with a light-emitting layer formed by a single printing.
• Producing a wide range of lighting colors, from natural light that closely resembles sunlight, to vivid and neutral colors that are excellent in design.
• Thin surface light source
• Easy-to-view light wavelength
• Mercury-free and environmentally-friendly

About Electroluminescence and OLEDs

Electroluminescence is a phenomenon in which light is emitted in response to the passage of an electrical current through an organic material as a voltage is applied. Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) are a technology that employs this phenomenon. An OLED that employs a polymer as a light emitting material is called a Polymer OLED.

About the Light+Building 2014 Lighting and Building Technology Trade Fair

Light+Building, which is held biennially in Frankfurt, Germany, is one of the world’s largest trade fair for lighting and building technology. This year will be the second time for Sumitomo Chemical to exhibit at the trade fair.

It features leading-edge products and technologies presented, among others, by companies specialized in lighting manufacturing and building technology and attracts a significant number of visitors from all over the world, particularly from Europe.

Light+Building 2014

Date	March 30 (Sun) – April 4 (Fri), 2014
Place	Messe Frankfurt Exhibition
Sumitomo Chemical’s Booth	Hall 4.1, Stand G60

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MAIN WORKS: JAPAN

Lighting Design-Tokyo Tower, Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo, Tokyo Gate Bridge, Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, Himeji Castle, Shirakawa Village, Gifu, Heijo-kyo Daigoku Palace, Akiyoshido, Kabukiza Theatre City Lighting Plan-Hakodate City, Nagasaki City, Kurashiki City, Kagoshima City, Events-Kohto Tokyo･Lightopia, Special Light Event-Soene Akari Park

OVERSEAS

Shanghai World Financial Center, Shanghai
<Project Commemorating 150th Anniversary of Japan-France Friendship>
La Seine-Light Messages from Japan, Paris
Japanitaly, Roma-Light message from Japan
Budapest Elisabeth Bridge Light-up, Hungary
Event Commemorating the 150^th Anniversary of the Relationship between Germany and Japan "Light Message for Peace"
Thematic exhibition for MAISON & OBJET, PARIS

AWARDS

To date, Motoko Ishii has received many international awards from authoritative organizations including over 40 awards from IESNA & IALD. She received the year 2000 Culture Award from Architectural Institute of Japan and "Shiju-hosho" (Purple Ribbon Medal) of honor from the National Government.

PUBLISHED WORKS

Written in English/Japanese
"MOTOKO LIGHT+SPACE+TIME", "Lighting Horizons", "Creation of Lightscape", "Light to Infinity", "My World of Lights"

Her many activities include presiding over the "Inter Light Forum",
which was established for the purpose of interdisciplinary study of light.