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Flexible display is an advanced form of display technology. The
display technology has evolved from Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) to Liquid
Crystal Display (LCD) and Light Emitting Diode (LED) displays, and
recently to flexible displays. Flexible displays are flexible in
nature and can be rolled, twisted and folded without any distortion
in the displayed image quality. These flexible displays are applied
in various applications such as smartphone, laptops, tablets and
consumer gadgets (watches).
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These flexible displays are light weight, rugged, non brittle, very
thin, driven by low power and portable. These benefits are making
flexible displays popular among the consumers as compared with the
flat displays. These benefits are driving the flexible displays
market. Currently materials for flexible displays are derived largely
from organic compounds and molecules. These materials furnish low
resistance abilities towards high temperature. Designers and
manufacturers thus cannot implement traditional semiconductor
fabrication techniques to these substrates. For the same reasons,
constructing a flexible OLED (FOLED) display is extremely
challenging.
Samsung is still using Low Temperature Poly-silicon (LTPS) for its
plastic based panels. The process of production for LTPS is extremely
hot for the plastic substrate and melts the substrate and offers
challenge to fabrication of FOLED. Currently Samsung deposits the
LTPS transistors on glass surface and the glass is delaminated
afterwards. LG Display is employing an Oxide-TFT that is easier to
produce on a flexible substrate. Penetration of flexible displays in
diverse applications such as military and digital signage holds
lucrative opportunities for the flexible display market.
Materials used in the manufacturing of flexible displays include
glass-reinforced plastic (GRP) and polymers. Primarily two types of
polymers are used in the flexible displays such as amorphous polymer
and crystalline polymer. Various components used in the flexible
displays consists emissive layer, substrate, conductive layer,
backlight panels and others such as cathode and anode. These flexible
displays are employed in several applications. These applications are
smartphone, E-reader, E-paper, tablet, laptop, wearable display and
television. Multiple types of display modes such as Organic Light
Emission Diode (OLED), Electrophoretic display (EPD) and Liquid
Crystal Display (LCD) are extensively explored for the purpose of
application to flexible displays. Various types of flexible display
manufacturing technology include photographic technology, flexible
flat panel display technology and flexible plasma display technology.
Flexible display making companies are looking forward to launch
flexible display phone commercially. LG Electronics launched world’s
first flexible six-inch smartphone, G Flex in 2013. Other big
companies, such as Samsung and others are also moving ahead in the
direction of commercializing flexible displays. Samsung unveiled the
world’s first foldable AMOLED display during Consumer Electronics
Show (CES) 2014.
Key companies in the market include
> Atmel Corporation
> Corning Incorporated
> Dupont Display
> Hewlett-Packard Company
> LG Display Co. Ltd.
> Philips Electronics
> Sony Corporation
> Universal Display Corporation
> Polymer Vision
> Novaled AG
> Materion Corporation
> Kent Displays Inc.
> E Ink Holdings Inc.
> Samsung Display
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