The LG V30, Galaxy S8, and Note 8, are also all designed with a swanky looking curved edge, revealing that these panels are also build on a flexible plastic rather than
a rigid glass substrate (the P in POLED or P - AMOLED).
Not exact matches
Until recently, the Empa CIGS cells were the most efficient in the world; at the end of October, though, a German research team at the Zentrum für Sonnenenergie - und Wasserstoff - Forschung (ZSW) in Stuttgart presented CIGS cells with an efficiency of 20.8 %, although they use far higher processing temperatures and (
rigid)
glass as the
substrate.
While
glass is fixed and
rigid, plastic
substrates can be more easily formed into new shapes, even if the end result doesn't end up being highly flexible.