The business is trying out a different sort of
flexible display material — carbon nanotube technology that can be applied to special surfaces with an inkjet machine.
Not exact matches
Case in point: In April, Samsung Electronics, working with South Korea's Sungkyunkwan University, announced a graphene synthesis method that promises to speed the
material's commercialization, touting its potential for use in
flexible displays and other cutting - edge products.
UC Irvine researchers copied the pattern on a new,
flexible material and coated it with a bit of gold to make a product that could improve solar panels, LED
displays and disguising of weapons.
In a paper published in September in the journal APL
Materials, researchers at Seoul National University describe a recent success for
displays:
flexible LEDs that could help replace shatter - prone screens.
Because this
material will stretch to match any distortions, a
flexible substrate, such as a plastic, can be used to make the backing
material of the
display.
Since thin films of
material can also be patterned onto sheets of plastic, the same work could point toward thin,
flexible, bright, color
displays.
Mixing and matching
materials this way may pave the way to brighter
displays for cell phones and handheld games, spherical light - sensitive «eyes» that take in a wide field of view, and
flexible communications devices that can be folded and stuffed into a backpack, says
materials scientist John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.
As such, the work shows that graphene (combined with other
flexible 2D
materials) is not just limited to simple electronic
displays, but could be exploited to create light emitting devices that are not only incredibly thin, but
flexible, semi-transparent, and intrinsically bright.
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Young says one company, Plastic Logic Ltd., is making large
flexible displays using E Ink
materials: «They can make a 10 - to -12-in.
Researchers from Yonsei University managed to use a graphene - like 2D
material called Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2) to create a transistor that can drive
flexible OLED
displays.
The new center will focus on
materials for next - generation
display technologies - specifically OLED
displays and
flexible displays (OLEDs and e-paper
displays).
The flex AMOLED
display was made using Plastic Logic's truly
flexible oTFT backplane technology, combined with Novaled's OLED frontplane
materials.
Kolon's CPI technology is built using a patented, high - heat - resistant
material with the potential to revolutionize
flexible displays, organic light - emitting diodes (OLEDs), consumer devices and other transparent
flexible electronics.
This is not the first
flexible ePaper
display Sony's showcased, the company prototyping a while ago 4.8 - inch e-paper device with organic TFTs (thin - film transistors) that use the «PXX,» an organic semiconductor
material stable to oxygen, moisture and light.
Researchers from the University of Cincinnati have demonstrated that regular paper can be a
flexible host
material for Electrowetting
displays.
Mike (and the rest of the team at PL too, of course) says that organic semiconducting
materials have reached a «tipping point» in electrical performance that makes them viable to drive
flexible OLED
displays.
Studies may help identify best
materials for variety of future electronics applications
Flexible displays that can be folded up in your pocket?
A substrate made from plastic or another nonrigid
material allows manufacturers to create
flexible displays.
The
material is
flexible, ultrathin and can produce the full color range of an LED - backlit LCD, but requires ten times less energy than a Kindle's e-ink
display.
Logan: Dexas provides outstanding,
flexible packaging, as well as counter
display units for our bottle assortments; plus, we have been working to add more point - of - sale
materials with great graphics of the products in use.
Apple envisions that the curved
display will be made from
flexible material that can present «an illusion of depth perception» capable of «mimicking a 3D experience.»
However, a patent submitted by the Redmond giant reveals a different method to
flexible materials — instead, the company's design describes the use of hinges, which would allow multiple screens to create a larger
display with no bezel.
Analog Layout Designer, Advanced
Material Scientist (Electrolyte Development), 3D Perception / Computer Vision Algorithm Engineer, Sensor Design Engineer, Motion Sensing Hardware Engineer: Magnetics, and even a
Flexible Display Technologist.
In its patent filing, Apple envisions that the new iPhone's curved
display will be made from
flexible material that can present «an illusion of depth perception» capable of «mimicking a 3D experience.»
Moreover, Apple imagines a
flexible material that could be used to create the
display, as to allow for bending.