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Flexible OLED displays

11/17/2008

OLED is a new display technology. Using light-emitting organic materials, beautiful and efficient displays can be created.

OLEDs are very thin, and in fact can be put on flexible materials (plastic or metal foil). So it's possible to make bendable, flexible displays. These displays are still in prototype phase, but we're seeing advancements all the time, and in a few years it's possible that we'll see commercial applications of those flexible screens.


Flexible OLEDs today

There are several companies working towards commercializing flexible OLEDs. Samsung are hoping to release their first flexible products in 2010. They recently demonstrated a thin OLED (0.05mm) that is flexible. In fact it was so thin, it flaps in the wind!

 

Sony, one of the leading companies in OLED technology, has shown a 'curved' version of their OLED TV. LG are also working towards such products, together with UDC. In fact UDC has shown an OLED that is only 50 micrometer thick... 

Latest stories about Flexible OLED displays:

Sony's CEO - Our Next Step is a 20"-30" OLED TV, shows Flexible OLED Prototype

01/09/2009

Sony's CEO, Sir Howard Stringer gives his Keynote speech at the openings of CES 2009. he says that Sony's next step is a 20"-30" OLED TV (The XEL-2?).

Stringer also demonstrated a flexible OLED prototype, called "Flex OLED". This could be the future's e-reader, but Sony gave no details about production or time frames for this tech. Here's a photo:

Sony Flexible OLED Prototype at CES 2009Sony Flexible OLED Prototype at CES 2009
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Photo of UDC's Flexible OLED from CES 2009

01/09/2009

Flexible OLEDs are hot in this CES. We've got a nice photo (from Ubergizmo) of UDC's fleixlbe OLED prototype. As we mentioned before, this is a 4" OLED, based on a project for the army, together with L-3 and LG Display.

UDC Flexible OLED DisplayUDC Flexible OLED Display
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CES 2009 OLED updates

01/07/2009

Several companies are giving updates on OLEDs in CES.

  • CDT are demonstrating near-eye viewer with P-OLEDs. CDT also shows screen-printed flexible OLEDs together with Add-Vision.
  • Idemitsu Kosan shows both fluorescent and phosphoscent based OLEDs, with long lifetime. They are also showing white OLEDs for lighting.
  • Ignis Innovations areshowing a prototype 2.2" QVGA OLED with their backplane and driver tech, amied at reducing cost and improving manufacturability. 
  • Novaled shows a defect-tolerant OLED light source. Novaled's demonstration
    delivers more than three times the efficiency of standard incandescent
    light bulbs and lasts ten times longer and has no Mercury.
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UDC Showcases 4" Prototype Flexible AMOLED Communication Device at CES 2009

01/07/2009

Universal Display Corporation today announced that it will exhibit a novel, wrist-worn flexible OLED communication device prototype at a CES 2009 event.

The prototype device, based on a four-inch flexible OLED display, was initially developed for military use through a program sponsored by the U.S. Army Communication Electronics Research and Development Engineering Center (CERDEC). Universal Display fabricated this prototype in collaboration with LG Display and L-3 Display Systems, as a complement to the flexible display development work ongoing at the U.S. Army’s Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University, of which Universal Display is a founding member.

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ITRI shows 4.1" Flexible AMOLED Prototype

12/19/2008

Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is showing several new flexible display prototypes - AMOLEDs, roll-to-roll cholesterol liquid crystal displays and electrowetting displays.

ITRI's AMOLED is a 4.1" panel, made on plastic substrate. The prototype is monochrome, but it can be made with color materials.

ITRI 4.1" Fleixble AMOLED prototypeITRI 4.1" Fleixble AMOLED prototype

Via digitimes

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