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by solistice 4218 days ago
Fascinating piece of tech if they actually manage to deliver on it. It'd be amazing if there was some more information on it though, the only stuff I can find is them explaining that it's LEDs mixed with ink between two conductive layers and an additional protective layer. Then a lot of fancy mockups that don't tell me anything about the tech they're selling.

Even if this vastly underdelivers, it might do away with the inverters needed for el-wire/panels which would be neat.

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Their technology is an assembly and packaging technology which has no bearing on driver electronics (inverters and whatever else).

The hard part about this (beyond many, many devilish details) is the deposition of an insulator separating the top and bottom conductors, which has to be the right thickness on a micron scale, and not interfere with conductivity of the electrodes. A very big devil, indeed.

It may work, but it is not easy. Also, the LEDs have to be specifically fabricated for their technique; they cannot use feedstock from the existing industry.

> It'd be amazing if there was some more information on it though

I suspect that there is little information on it, either because they are not entirely solid on the information themsilves, or that they do not want to risk letting others make similar products before they have a chance to hit market, or some combination of the two.

I hope it is the latter, as that would mean it is a lot more likely this will ever come to market.

Yeah, a video of it in action would be incredible though. The single picture of it isn't quite convincing yet. Reading through articles on it it appears they're on the first iteration of the design though, which appearently suffers from problems with uniform lighting they're hoping to resolve in the comming months, so that might be the reason they're not showing any more proof of their claims.