POLYMER VISION

Polymer Vision NV (Eindhoven, Netherlands) is a business initiative within the Philips Technology Incubator aiming to bring flexible displays to market by combining polymer electronics with electronic ink.

Polymer Vision builds on years of groundbreaking research in the field of organic electronics within Philips Research, which earlier led to world-first demonstrations of organics-based, functional RFID circuits and active-matrix displays. One key competence of Polymer Vision is the robust fabrication of large arrays of polymer based thin-film transistors (TFTs) with largely identical electrical characteristics. This is combined with the capability to model and design circuitry that exploits the characteristics of organic electronics to the fullest.

By combining active-matrix polymer driving electronics with a reflective electronic ink front plane on an extremely thin sheet of plastic, Philips is capable of producing the world’s thinnest flexible active-matrix display to date. Philips Polymer Vision's rollable display is well positioned to accommodate the user with smooth, paper like viewing in all sorts of data-centric mobile applications, such as text, agendas, e-mail, electronic maps, and multiple-data information services.