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Efficient New Light Unfolds Like Paper

by Pat Coate | June 13, 2009
"This uses cheap, well-known, and well-established materials."
- Sebastian Reineke, researcher

The next time your lamp needs a new light bulb, you might change the lamp shade instead of the light bulb.

Reineke's white OLEDs will keep electric bills down even more than CFLs ... Once the technology has matured they should also cost substantially less than CFLs.

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