Sony's Rollable OLED Display

Sony unveils super-thin OLED screen that can be rolled around a pencil

Sony has developed was it calls 'the world's first' flexible colour video screen, that is so sheer it can be rolled around a pencil.

The Japanese electronics giant created the 4.1" across prototype using an ultra-thin flexible material covered in organic semiconductors.

The ultra-thin screen continues to show a clear picture even when it is rolled

Collected from: Sony unveils super-thin OLED screen that can be rolled around a pencil | Mail Online

Video: Sony’s new, super-thin OLED display wraps around a pencil

The display is just 80μm thick, offers 432 x 240 resolution (121 ppi), a contrast ratio of around 1,000:1, and produces 100 cd/m2 brightness. Sony says the OLED can be wrapped around a pencil with just a 4mm radius. And the OLED can actually continue to display images and video while being rolled up, which is (according to Sony) a world’s first.

Collected from: Video: Sony’s new, super-thin OLED display wraps around a pencil

Sony develops a rollable OLED screen

Collected from: YouTube - Sony develops a rollable OLED screen

May 26, 2010

Sony Develops a "Rollable" OTFT^*1-driven OLED Display that can wrap around a Pencil

-New developments with high performance organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) with an original organic semiconductor enable roll-up capabilities-

Technology Features

1. High performance OTFT with originally developed high-mobility and highly-stable organic semiconductor materials, PXX derivatives
 [...]
 

 2. Integration of a flexible gate-driver circuit with OTFTs
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3. Enhancement of flexibility with all organic insulators in the OTFT and OLED integration circuit
[...]

4. Achieved display capable of reproducing moving images while rolled-up around cylinder with 4mm radius
[...]

Collected from: Sony Global - News Releases - Sony Develops a "Rollable" OTFT-driven OLED Display that can wrap around a Pencil

Sources

Sony unveils super-thin OLED screen that can be rolled around a pencil | Mail Online
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1281620/Sony-unveils-super-OLED-screen-rolled-pencil.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Video: Sony’s new, super-thin OLED display wraps around a pencil
http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/05/26/video-sonys-new-super-thin-oled-display-wraps-around-a-pencil/
YouTube - Sony develops a rollable OLED screen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OvTLg4i2_U
Sony Global - News Releases - Sony Develops a "Rollable" OTFT-driven OLED Display that can wrap around a Pencil
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/201005/10-070E/index.html

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