Architectural Lighting: OLEDs in the Spotlight

Recent advances in organic light-emitting diodes accompanied by successful field-testing have brought the technology closer to more mainstream use by architects in the built environment. LEDs and OLEDs are often grouped together in industry discussions, but while the former has taken ahold of—and transformed—the lighting sector, the latter has followed a more gradual trajectory of development and adoption. Performance, life span, and cost have set the two lighting sources apart, but recent advances in OLED panel technology accompanied by successful field-testing have narrowed the gap.