[Professional Engineer]

According to Forrest, the device eventually could achieve three times the efficiency of standard incandescent light bulbs.

Oooo, all the way up to match fluorescent.

[jiggyboy]

It might be better than fluorescent if it's flat instead of curved or bulbous or whatever. A not-insignificant portion of the light coming out of the standard bulb is going back into the fixture. In fluorescents, you undoubtedly lose some of that light that comes out of one side of the curly-cue and goes across the middle to the other side. I wonder if that's already part of their calculations -- "loss due to geometrically-related absorption and diffusion" or somesuch.

[July 4th]

Oooo, all the way up to match fluorescent.

Sure, in commercial applications there's not really an improvement over fluorescent. But I don't use fluorscents in my home because the light quality sucks. If OLEDs provide incandescent quality or better and provide energy savings, then I'll finally switch.

[rattrap]

As long as they aren't flashing at 60hz i'll take half as efficient as nasty flourescents.

[Boiler Plate]

Incandescents are about 10 Lumens per watt, fluorescent are about are about 80 lumens/W and the latest LEDs are about 130 lumens/W.

So if these OLED's are only three times better than incandescents that is still not as good as fluorescent and a long way from LED's.