Universal Display Corporation and LG Display announced today the joint development of a flexible, full-color, active-matrix OLED (AMOLED) display prototype. Built on thin metallic foil, these prototypes are being showcased at each company’s booth during the 2008 Society for Information Display Conference.
The four-inch diagonal, QVGA full-color AMOLED display prototype combines LGD’s amorphous-Silicon backplane technologies with Universal Display’s OLED frontplane technologies, including its high-efficiency Universal PHOLED⢠and transparent compound-cathode TOLED® technologies. Building on the foundation of the jointly-developed prototype shown at last year’s SID Exhibition, this new demonstrator offers enhanced brightness, improved color saturation, broader color gamut and a one-sided electrical interconnection, making it the most advanced flexible OLED display built on metallic foil using a-Si backplane technology to date.
The development of this prototype has been, in part, supported by the U.S. Department of Defense through the Battle Command Interface Branch of the U.S. Army Communication Electronics Research and Development Engineering Center (CERDEC). This work also complements flexible display development ongoing at the U.S. Army’s Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University, of which Universal Display is a founding member and LGD recently joined as an Associate member.
