WORLD'S THINNEST FLEXIBLE ACTIVE-MATRIX DISPLAY

Polymer Vision has been able to make organics-based QVGA (320×240 pixels) active matrix displays with a diagonal of 5 inch, a resolution of 85 dpi and a bending radius of 2 cm. The displays combine a 25 micron thick active-matrix back plane, containing the polymer electronics-based pixel driving, with a 200 micron front plane of reflective ‘electronic ink’ developed by E Ink Corporation. Electronic ink-based displays are thin and flexible by construction because they do not require cell gap control. Moreover, displays made with electronic ink technology are ideal candidates for reading-intensive applications because of their excellent, paper-like readability and extremely low power consumption.

The resulting display represents the thinnest, and most flexible, active-matrix display reported to date. Moreover with close to 80,000 TFTs it is the largest organic electronics-based display yet, with the smallest pixel pitch reported to date.