ABSTRACT

Rollable displays are lightweight, large-area displays that are unbreakable and can be rolled up into a small-sized housing when not actively used. The displays combine active-matrix polymer driving electronics with a reflective ‘electronic ink’ front plane on an extremely thin sheet of plastic. The availability of such displays would greatly stimulate the advance of electronic books, newspapers and magazines, and also new services offered by (third generation) mobile network operators. These applications currently depend on fragile, heavy and bulky laptops or small, low-resolution displays of mobile phones, which both have clear drawbacks. Within the Philips Technology Incubator an internal venture has been formed with this aim. The venture is called Polymer Vision