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Flexible Display

LG Display 19-inch Flexible e-Paper

January 15, 2010

LARGEST: LG Display announced a newspaper-sized e-paper. The 19-inch e-paper is 250 x 400mm in size and is about the size of an A3-sized newspaper and just as thin and light at 0.3mm and 130g. LG Display uses a metal foil instead of a typical glass substrate allowing the company’s e-paper to be flexible with [...]

Philips Research Develop Chameleon ePaper

December 10, 2009

Philips Research has developed a color epaper technology where the color can be easily changed. Applications are almost limitless: e-wallpaper, e-window just to name a couple. No backlight is needed for Philips’ reflective epaper, which can be transparent, any color, or completely black. Another recent development called e-skin that makes use of ambient light, may [...]

10 Million eBook Readers in 2010

November 28, 2009

AU Optronics (AUO), the top LCD manufacturer in Taiwan so far, estimates global ebook reader shipments to top 10 million units in 2010. C.T. Liu, VP of AUO and Chairman of SiPix, is quite optimistic as most estimates are currently around 6 to 7 million units. SiPix will do its share: ramp its second production [...]

Universal Display and Flexible Display Center at ASU to Supply Flexible PHOLED to US Army

November 20, 2009

Flexible OLED On November 19, 2009 Universal Display Corporation (UDC) announced that the company and the Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University (ASU) will be supplying flexible active matrix phosphorescent OLED (PHOLED) display prototypes to the US Army. The US Army Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II Enhancement Program awarded US$650,000 to [...]

Samsung Flexible OLED: Very Durable

October 16, 2009

Samsung’s flexible OLED is extremely durable. As you can see from the video, a traditional LCD is completely demolished when the hammer strikes down. The 2.8-inch OLED with a thickness of just 20 micrometer? Multiple strikes don’t affect it at all and neither do bends. Can you image an OLED smartphone where the display almost [...]

Modistech Flexible OLED Display

March 18, 2009

Modistech, a South Korean firm, showcased its flexible OLED display. This OLED display can be used as a backlight for LCD applications. You wouldn’t the backlight to be flexible for normal glass-based LCDs but if LCDs shift to plastic some time in the future a flexbile backlight will be necessary. Also because this OLED light [...]

Shinoda Plasma: Flexible Transparent Plasma Displays

December 5, 2008

In April or May 2009, Shinoda Plasma will be bringing to market flexible and transparent plasma displays. The display will be 1 x 1 meters and with a 3 x 1 tile the resulting pixel format will be 960 x 360 or 320 x 360 each. The plasma display is made of three plasma glass [...]

AU Optronics Curved LCD

May 19, 2008

AU Optronics (AUO) will be the first display manufacturer to showcase a curved LCD during SID 2008. The LCD uses a conventional TFT LCD process and curves 100mm in a single plane. Potential applications for a curved LCD could be clocks, watches, automobile dashboards, etc. According to AUO information presentation is uniform including color and [...]

Shinoda Plasma: Flexible Plasma Wall

May 16, 2008

LG Display Debut 12″ and 14.3″ Flexible Displays

March 14, 2008

During the FPD China 2008 flat panel display show, LG Display debuted its 12″ black-and-white and 14.3″ color flexible display products. LGD is expected to volume manufacture these flexible displays later in 2008. The flexible displays make use of an ultra-thin steel foil on a plastic substrate that allows them to be flexible.


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