Plastic's fantastic for flexible AMOLED display
In a development expected to accelerate the market for flexible and wearable displays, Plastic Logic has teamed up with OLED materials supplier Novaled to create a fully flexible, all-plastic AMOLED display.
The demonstrator was created using a fully industrialised manufacturing process, in which Novaled's PIN OLED technology was combined with Plastic Logic's flexible, organic Thin Film Transistor (OTFT) backplane.
Plastic Logic ceo Indro Mukerjee said: "Flexible electronics is a reality, already proven through the development and manufacture of plastic, bendable displays and sensors. For the first time a fully organic, plastic, flexible AMOLED demonstration has been achieved with a real industrial fabrication process.
"This marks the start of a revolution in wearable products, the next frontier in consumer electronics - 2014 will be the year that wearable technology starts to go mainstream."
The two partners plan to release a series of technology demonstrators during 2014, as part of a wider plan to develop truly flexible, unbreakable AMOLED displays.
