First ever OLED Christmas tree

Hi Everyone,

For the last couple of years we’ve put together a Happy Holidays picture highlighting our most recent developments in OLED technology. Well my team has been facing a lot of pressure from colleagues around GRC to keep up the tradition and to do it “with style” this time. As far as I know, no one else has achieved our roll-to-roll OLED fabrication demonstration yet so that’s what we focused on. So how do you highlight roll-to-roll OLEDs? An OLED Holiday Tree of course!

Here is a video of our official “tree-lighting”. Note that the tree is made by wrapping a working 6 inch by 15 foot OLED around a stand.

Happy Holidays


The whole OLED team with the Christmas tree


We acheived quite a long run of OLEDs to use for the Christmas tree


Some members of the team illuminated under the green OLED glow

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[...] According to the GE’s OLED program team leader, Anil Duggal, this is the first ever roll-to-roll OLED fabrication demonstration and they’ve done with ‘style’, put together a display of holiday tree to keep up the tradition. A video of the team and the lighting of the OLED Christmas can be seen here: [...]

I’ve been waiting for this tech since Discover magazine started talking about it nearly 10 years ago! OLED is going to change everything. Nice tree guys! Get some good videos up on Youtube!!

Wow, a holiday tree. I wonder which holiday uses a tree?

thay are all have protective glasses on must be due to the OLED brightness

Glasses. They are all with glasses. WTF?

looks like they are in a lab or workshop…thus the need for saftey glasses…its kinda mandatory…had to wear those in “shop” class

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Hello OLED Team!
How many does this Christmas OLED Tree emit in cd/m` (candelas by square meter)?
How many power does it use?
The star is in OLED too?
In 2009, you gonna do this bigger but for the Rockfeller Plaza?!lol

[...] folks at General Electric Global Research have put together the first ever OLED Christmas tree. GE has a tradition of showcasing its most recent technology in an annual holiday gesture, this [...]

This link got sent around the office and everyone was quite impressed. I work at instructables.com and thought it would be great if you could put up a step-by-step for other people to follow.

If it’s any incentive we’re currently running a contest that pays out $20,000 for the grand prize, but I’m sure if you wanted to add this to our site, it would be purely for purposes of a shared enlightment.
http://www.instructables.com/contest/workshopofthefuture/

Keep up the awesome projects!

[...] folks at General Electric Global Research have put together the first ever OLED Christmas tree. GE has a tradition of showcasing its most recent technology in an annual holiday gesture, this [...]

[...] folks at General Electric Global Research have put together the first ever OLED Christmas tree. GE has a tradition of showcasing its most recent technology in an annual holiday gesture, this [...]

This is Just fantastic… shows How we at GE can change the Future… This is the Future of Lighting ..GREAT

[...] folks at General Electric Global Research have put together the first ever OLED Christmas tree. GE has a tradition of showcasing its most recent technology in an annual holiday gesture, this [...]

I think the holiday to which you refer, Mark, is Christmas. Merry CHRISTmas everyone!

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Have ever heard about OLED technology for nearly ten years. Really an important milestone for this technology.

Congradulations to you all!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Safety glasses are industry and lab required.

Now you need to make it pedal powered.

I believe they are all wearing eye protection as they are in the lab..

I’d be interested in talking with you about the efficiency numbers. If these use less energy than my current in-sleigh lighting system, it would reduce the demand on REGS (reindeer energy generation system), which is one of my big Ys!

Sony has already made OLED display for general market. (It is pricey. 11 in for more than $2,000.) So what makes GE’s OLED different? What is it after? When and why would someone purchase such an item?

Clever use of your first long run of “roll to roll” OLEDs! I would have liked to see your video, but GE Louisville “blocks” youtube!

[...] Tree Published in Gadgets, Technology 22Dec The engineers from the OLED Research team at GE prepared a special Christmas Tree build from OLEDs. The tree is comprised of a long run fabrication [...]

Amazing !! Thrilled to see this OLED video..
Congrats !!! Wishing you Happy Holidays –Basav

outstanding. happy holidays OLED team.

great win for GE! GE Houston also blocks all utube stuff (maybe we need an internal GE utube…hint,hint)
happy holidays

This is very excellent… Shows to the world, how really GE cares for Environ… Congrats to all the members of this team… Truly exciting

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Sure would like to see the video, but GE Melbourne (Florida) also blocks utube stuff. Can we get the video on a GE site?

I meant youtube, of course :) !

Where is the OLED Hannukkah?

I don’t understand some moments of this topic..

Womderful, but known =)

http://www.grcblog.com – cool sitename man)))

That is so amazing for me! Thanx!

Real news, thank you!

[...] One of the things we saw at GRC was some of the work around OLED (organic light emitting diode), the coolest of which was this sheet of light (which unfortunately wasn’t lightable today, though you can see it lit from when the team made a Christmas tree out of similar stuff). [...]

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[...] a day away, sometimes it’s great to blog for fun and to show off a little. GE’s Global Research team recently did with pictures and video showing how the team built a working 6×15 OLED (organic light-emitting [...]

That OLEDs have so many possibilities. Check out http://www.oledgadgets.com for more OLEDs.

Hey, great blog…but I don’t understand how to add your site in my rss reader. Can you Help me, please :)

I don’t know If I said it already but …Hey good stuff…keep up the good work! :) I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I’m glad I found your blog. Thanks,)

A definite great read….

My older work has proposed a similar incident but launches the event from the location of intellectuals, political operatives and social theorists in Chinese treaty port cities. ,

Wow, those LED’s would be perfect for cars, easily swappable

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I am trying to find the right dept.to send this to.

I have a G.E. 7.5 white pre-lit tree that I purchased a few years ago.

It is turning YELLOW!!!!! more and more each year,first it was the bottom section,last year the middle,now it is the entire tree!!!!!!!!

The number on the box is 853 359 Can ANYONE help or forward this to the correct dept.??????

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