All-organic AMOLED display demonstrates flexible OTFT backplane technology
The new display features an increased brightness, 256 grey levels, and full 30fps image rendering. The display claims to offer further proof that organic transistor technology offers display makers the best path to truly flexible, ultra-thin, lightweight AMOLEDs.
The second display builds on Plastic Logic’s first demonstrator, which was demonstrated at the Flextech Conference in Phoenix, Arizone, USA in February 2014.
The flex AMOLED display was made using Plastic Logic’s flexible OTFT backplane technology, combined with Novaled’s OLED frontplane materials. The market for flex AMOLED displays is set to grow to $23bn by 2023 (IHS 2014 report), fuelled by the pull for flexible displays for wearables and the Internet of Things.
One application for the technology is wearables – a market calling out for displays and sensors that can conform to the curved and irregular shapes of the human body. OTFT is the only transistor technology offering the true flexibility needed for wearables: for example in smart bracelets, the size of usable screen area can be increased once you can bend a display around your wrist.
Through its OTFT development and industrialisation process, Plastic Logic has created IP and a transferable process-flow, and has a Partner Programme to work with leading global display makers and consumer electronics companies to enable flexible, plastic AMOLED supply chains through licensing and technology transfer to existing manufacturers.
Founded by researchers from the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, Plastic Logic has been at the forefront of research and investment into plastic electronics and the company says it is actively seeking companies to join its Partner Programme to take flexible electronics and wearable technology into mainstream production.
Indro Mukerjee, CEO of Plastic Logic, said: "The speed with which the second demonstrator display followed the first is a testament to the depth of the IP and know-how in manufacturing processes, materials sets and architectures that Plastic Logic has built up over the past 13 years. Colour is our next target."
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