Manufacturing Industry

Cheap, bendable electroluminescent display.(Optoelectronics)

New Materials Japan, March, 2005

Pioneer Corp and Mitsubishi Chemical Corp have jointly developed a cheap, bendable organic electroluminescent (EL) display, working in collaboration with Hiroyuki Yano, a professor at Kyoto University.

Though the prototype is a monochrome display, the technology enables the production of paper-thin panels capable of showing moving images in full colour, the companies said.

The business card-size prototype has a thickness of 0.2 mm and was produced by integrating light-emitting elements on a substrate made of a resin film.

The organic EL displays currently used for cellular phones and other appliances cannot bend because their substrates are made of glass.

The new technology will make it possible to carry displays like scrolls, paving...

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