In 2013, the company also showcased
another flexible display prototype called Youm.
Samsung unveiled its Youm flexible display technology at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show and showcased at the 2014 CES
a flexible display prototype made with a plastic substrate, which works well with AMOLED displays.
Not exact matches
Researchers have created a new graphene - based
flexible LED
display prototype (not pictured) that is incredibly thin and bright and could be used in next - gen mobile phones, tablets and TVs (Image: Shutterstock)
The
prototype (shown above) is an active - matrix electrophoretic (E Ink)
display fabricated on
flexible plastic.
The
prototype display uses a new polyamide film at the back instead of the usual plastic to make it thinner and, in turn, more
flexible.
Last month the company unveiled a new plastic - based
flexible e-paper
prototype display, featuring 4,000 colors at 75 ppi.
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.
AUO is showing a new
prototype that integrates a
flexible e-paper
display with a
flexible PV and battery.
He added that E Ink has also unveiled a
prototype of a plastic - based
flexible display which is «ideal for children to use» because of its resistance to breakage.
A new
prototype flexible display created by the University of Cambridge and UK firm Plastic Logic, represents the first time graphene has been used in a transistor - based
flexible screen and may well provide the least expensive, easiest to manufacture solution for these devices yet.
Sony had a never before seen
prototype of
flexible electronic paper
display technology at the 2010 Dealer Convention.
Lenovo recently demonstrated two new foldable device
prototypes that use
flexible OLED
displays.
It's relatively easy to make a
flexible e-ink
display, and there have been many
prototypes over the past five years, from the likes of HP, Philips and LG, as well as E Ink and Plastic Logic.
The video below, produced by the Plastic Logic team, shows the new
flexible prototype display in use.
Samsung first
displayed a
flexible OLED
prototype in 2013 called «Youm,» meaning it's had a few years to work out issues already.
As for Samsung, it announced the development of a
prototype 4.5 inch
flexible AMOLED
display in late 2010, which was then showed off at CES 2011.