High costs could keep the LED's carbon-based cousin off the shelf – A new report suggests that organic lightemitting diodes, or OLEDs, won't come anywhere close to replacing conventional illuminators like incandescent and compact fluorescent lightbulbs in the foreseeable future. The analysis, conducted by Lux Research, a technology consultancy based in Boston, is marked by an extremely bleak projection of the worldwide OLED lighting market in 2020–a mere US $58 million in annual sales.
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