78-1: Invited Paper: Application of OLED Area Light in Textiles: Approaches, Challenges, Limitations, and Perspectives

OLED lighting elements are recognized as light emitting graphical elements. They can be shaped, patterned or inscribed in a plethora of ways. The possible feature diversity of OLEDs is highly attractive for the creative industry. With its outstanding key feature to provide high-quality glare-free a light with crisp light colors, as well as its flexibility and low weight, OLED technology is ideally suited for the use in fashion items like garments or accessories and other near body applications. In addition to the consumer-oriented fashion business also a lot of professional applications in the security, rescue and outdoor industry are potential application fields for this new technology.