Japan's Technology Research Association for Advanced Display Materials (TRADIM) said it managed to develop a flexible LCD display by using a film substrate and roll-to-roll (R2R) technologies. The display can be curved, and is thin, light-weight and unbreakable.
TRADIM unveiled a 3.5" prototype that features 114 ppi and is only 0.49mm thick. The R2R method deposits the polarizing and phase difference films, the color filters, the TFT and the backplane on the film substrate. This development marks the end of TRADIM's efforts - and now this technology will be left for commercialization by the individual companies behind the association (which include Sharp, Hitachi, NEC, Dai Nippon Printing, Toppan Printing, Sumitomo Chemical and others).
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Posted: Mar 29,2012 by Ron Mertens
