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Plastic Logic and Novaled OTFT backplane AMOLED

February 10, 2014

I just came back from the 2014 FLEX conference and the SID LA Symposium. There are many highlights in these 2 conferences. One of the exciting news is about the Organic TFT (OTFT) backplane AMOLED.

On Feb 6th, 2014, Plastic Logic’s director of research and partnerships, Mr. Mike Banach gave a presentation titled “A New Frontier for Flexible Displays”. At the same day, both Plastic Logic and Novaled announced their partnership and their demo of OTFT backplane AMOLED.

Their demo is a monochrome flexible AMOLED, targeting for wearable applications. Plastic Logic’s CEO, Indro Mukerjee, said, “2014 will be the year that wearable technology starts to go mainstream.”

Touch Display Research analyst agrees with that. Touch Display Research forecasts 30 million units flexible and curved displays will be shipped for smart watch application by 2023. Overall flexible and curved display market will reach $27 Billion by 2023.

Figure: Flexible and curved displays for smart watch application forecast to 2023

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Source: Touch Display Research. “Flexible and Curved Display and Lighting Technologies and Market Forecast” report. September, 2013.

It is said Merck’s organic semiconductor material was used in the OTFT prototype.

As we covered in our “Flexible and Curved Display and Lighting Technologies and Market Forecast” report, Sony has demonstrated OTFT backplane AMOLED before.

Thanks for reading,

Jennifer and team

Popular session in FPD International 2013 Yokohama

November 1, 2013

I’m back in California from the FPD International 2013 conference in Yokohama, Japan. It was my honor to speak at this conference, and I’m very glad to meet some of you in person at this conference.

Today in the FPD International 2013 conference website, Nikkei BP (the conference organizer) posted the total attendee numbers: there were over 47,000 attendees for the 3 days exhibition, and over 3500 attendees for the forum.

I’m very glad to see that our session “Touch Panel New Market and Technologies” is rated the popular session at this conference. http://expo.nikkeibp.co.jp/fpd/2013/english/

Figure: FPD International 2013 popular sessions

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Source: FPD International 2013, Nikkei BP

Nice to present with you, Mizuhashi-san and Geoff.

Thanks for reading,

Jennifer and team

Plastic Logic Shows Flexible Displays, Video, and Watch

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February 9, 2013

At FlexTech’s 2013 Flexible and Printed Electronics conference, Plastic Logic demonstrated several flexible electrophoretic display products, including a flexible active matrix display for watches. Here are two video clips I produced about Plastic Logic demos. The first features Daniel Baum, Application Engineer at Plastic Logic, who introduced to me the large-sized flexible products and a 12 fps animated video. The second is Rachel Lichten, Head of Marketing Communications at Plastic Logic who introduces the flexible display watch.

Video: Plastic Logic large displays at 2013 FlexTech Conference. Produced by Jennifer Colegrove.

Video: Plastic Logic flexible display watch at 2013 FlexTech Conference. Produced by Jennifer Colegrove

What’s the comparison between flexible display watches on the market or coming in the future? What’s Plastic Logic’s manufacturing status? What’s the flexible active matrix display roadmap till 2014? Detailed analysis can be found in the Touch and Emerging Display Monthly Report, February 2013 issue.

Thanks for reading,

Jennifer and team

Plastic Logic: www.plasticlogic.com

Flexible LED Lighting at 2013 FlexTech

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At FlexTech’s 2013 Flexible and Printed Electronics conference, Nth Degree Technology demonstrated several types of printed LED lighting. Here is a video I took with their creative director, Andrew Dennis.

Source: Jennifer Colegrove

The flexible blue LED lighting is built on a plastic substrate, then a phosphor layer is added on top of the blue LED lighting to achieve a white light.

What kind of application will this flexible LED lighting be used for? When will this lighting be in the market? What’s the comparison of printed LED lighting vs. OLED lighting vs. EL lighting? A detailed analysis will be in the upcoming issue of Touch and Emerging Display Monthly Report, February 2013.

Thanks for reading,

Jennifer and team

Flexible LED Lighting at the 2013 Flexible and Printed Electronics Conference

Jan 30th, 2013

Today is the second day of FlexTech’s 2013 Flexible and Printed Electronics Conference. It’s very popular with about five hundred attendees and sixty exhibition booths (flexconference.org).

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At Nth Degree Technology’s booth they demonstrated several types of printed LED lighting. One is a transparent blue LED light, two are flexible white LEDs (see image below), another is used as a signage.

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Source: Nth Degree Technology, photo by Jennifer Colegrove

The construction process for the printed LED lighting:

  1. First, tiny blue LEDs were built using traditional wafer fabrication technologies.
  2. Then the tiny LEDs were mixed into a special ink.
  3. The ink was applied using a high-speed printing method onto conductive substrates (plastic or glass).
  4. If there is a need to change colors,  a phosphor layer is added on top of the blue LED lighting.

What kind of application will this flexible LED lighting be used for? What is the time-frame for this this lighting to come to market?  What’s the comparison of printed LED lighting vs. OLED lighting vs. EL lighting? A detailed analysis will be in the upcoming Touch and Emerging Display Monthly Report, Feb 2013 issue.

Thanks for reading,

Jennifer and team