Back in June 2012 LG was awarded with Korea's ambitious Future Flagship Program that aims to develop 60" flexible transparent UHD OLED displays by 2017. This project raised a few eyebrows and was never mentioned again. Now we hear that LG Display is still developing the technology, and still says that the want to be ready with a real product by the end of 2017.
Flexible OLED TV concept (Sony)
LGD is currently developing a 17" transparent flexible OLED and they hope to ready a prototype by the end of 2014. If this is successful, LGD will move on to the next stage - the 60" UHD panel. This panel will feature 40% transmittance and a curvature radius of 10 cm.
LG Display says that such displays will "clearly be a breakthrough in display innovation", and the flexible transparent display market will be very large. In 2018 the export value of such displays will reach $6 billion, and this will quickly grow to over $77 billion by 2025. By 2023, the transparent flexible display market volume will be larger than the 'generic display market" and will reach $131 billion in revenues. These numbers originate from IHS DisplayBank.
