A Japanese consortium says they can make flexible LCDs

A Japanese consortium of 13 companies (including Sharp and Hitachi) claims that they found a way to make LCDs using plastic film instead of a glass substrate. This means that those displays can be very thin and flexible. They do admit however that this is a very complicated process. They have shown a 3.5" bendable color LCD that just 0.49mm thick and weights 7 grams. They hope to make a better display by 2012, and use this technology to mass produce thin, curved LCD displays.

The companies say that the new manufacturing process is simpler than the one used in current LCDs, and also the new displays will consumer 70% less energy!



More information over at CrunchGear.

Feb 03, 2010

Comments

Fri, 05/02/2010 - 02:19 — Krism5 (not verified)

They do admit however that this is a very complicated process verses the new manufacturing process is simpler than the one used in current LCDs.

Oh really? So which is it?

Fri, 05/02/2010 - 08:20 — oled

I guess it's the same as in OLEDs. The process is theoretically more simple. But practically today it's not so easy to do. I think they mean that when/if they finally figure everything out, it'll be easier than LCDs are today...
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