Project database

The page provides a list of national and international projects where FER participates or has participated as a project coordinator or partner.


Projects

   

Project

Acronym:
IMOLA 
Name:
Intelligent light Management for OLED on foil Applications - IMOLA 
Project status:
From: 2011-10-01 To: 2015-03-31 (Completed)
Contract number:
288377 
Action line:
ICT-2011.3.6 
Type (Programme):
FP7 
Funding scheme:
STREP 
Project cost:
5.115.790,00 EUR
Project funding:
3.400.000,00 EUR

Project coordinator

Organisation Name:
IMEC - Interuniversitair Microelectronica Centrum vzw 
Organisation adress:
- 
Organisation country:
Belgija 
Contact person name:
Jan Doutreloigne 
Contact person email:
 

Croatian partner

Organisation name:
Fakultet elektrotehnike i računarstva 
Organisation address:
Unska 3 
Contact person name:
Adrijan Baric
Contact person tel:
+385 1 6129 913 
Contact person fax:
+385 1 6129 653 
Contact person e-mail:
Email 

Partners

Organisation name Country
TNO - Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek  Nizozemska 
Philips Technologie GmbH  Njemačka 
NXP Semiconductors Belgium NV  Belgija 
NXP Semiconductors Nederland BV  Nizozemska 
Hanita Coatings RCA Ltd  Izrael 
Henkel Electronic Materials NV  Belgija 
Centro Ricerche Plast-optica SpA  Italija 
University of Zagreb, FER  Hrvatska 

Short description of project

The project’s goal of is to make large-area OLED-based lighting modules with built-in intelligent light management. These systems will be used in future energy-efficient wall, ceiling and car dome lighting, where the light intensity can be adjusted intelligently, e.g. according to the time of the day of weather conditions. OLEDs (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) are paper-thin, flexible and lightweight electronic devices. They consist of organic materials which emit light in response to an electric current. OLEDs consume up to 70% less energy compared to conventional light sources. This makes OLED technology a prime candidate for the next generation of energy-saving lighting. But before flexible large-area OLED lighting can be commercialized, more R&D is needed to solve some outstanding challenges. These areas, which mainly concern the driving electronics, power distribution, integration and miniaturization, and sensors and application intelligence, will be tackled by IMOLA. The IMOLA consortium (Intelligent light Management for OLED on foil Applications) includes industrial and academic partners that are leaders in their field of expertise. Next to imec, the project coordinator, the partners involved in IMOLA are TNO (Netherlands), Philips Technologie (Germany), NXP Semiconductors (Netherlands, Belgium), Hanita Coatings RCA (Israel), Henkel Electronic Materials (Belgium), Centro Richerce Plast-Optica (Italy), and the University of Zagreb (Croatia).  IMOLA’s application demonstrators in the areas of car and wall lighting will raise public awareness and acceptance for environmental-friendly OLED lighting. In addition, IMOLA will help create a common OLED infrastructure on a European scale. IMOLA’s R&D results will help to give Europe a leading edge in OLED fabrication, especially in the field of high value-added applications, such as automotive lighting.  

Short description of the task performed by Croatian partner

As the OLED lighting system consists of many tiles, each having its own embedded inductor, a large array or matrix of irradiating inductors (antennas) is actually created. The different DC-DC converters within the tiles are not synchronized to a system clock, so this array of antennas will emit a broad noise-like uncorrelated EM spectrum. Obviously, the layout of the embedded inductor will have to be designed very carefully in order to comply with certain EMC emission standards. Modelling and simulation will include electrical behavior but also EMC shielding and thermal aspects. The result will be a new, easy and reliable system for lighting, based on OLED technology. University of Zagreb, FER is responsible for the EMC issues of the integrated lighting platform.