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DSCC Q2 Smartphone Display Cost Report Updates iPhone Panels

by Artem Alekseenko

The Q2 update of DSCC’s Quarterly Smartphone Display Cost Report includes the latest updates to our smartphone cost model, and a number of new models representing the ongoing evolution of the smartphone marketplace. New …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| Flexible Devices| OLEDs| Smartphones

A Biaxially Stretchable Substrate Applicable to OLEDs is Under Development

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers led by Professor Kyung-Chul Choi within the Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (Daejeon, Korea) is developing “stretchable OLEDs that …

Tags:Flexible Devices| Flexible Displays| Korea| OLEDs| R&D (Research & Development)

UK Researchers Develop Lasers for the Eyes

by Bob Raikes

We don’t think it has display applications, but we were intrigued by news that a group from The University of St Andrews in Scotland, UK, has developed a semiconductor laser that can be made …

Tags:Flexible Devices| Laser| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 19

Better Be Flexible

by Norbert Hildebrand

One hot topic that we have been following over the years is flexible displays. The topic is of course related to the advent of OLED displays challenging LCD screens as the display of choice …

Tags:Flexible Batteries| Flexible Devices| Flexible Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 31

Flexenable Develops Flexible Fingerprint Sensor

by Bob Raikes

Flexenable said that it has developed a flexible fingerprint sensor with 500 dots per inch (dpi) image resolution in collaboration with ISORG of France and that it is ready for production and is 0.3mm …

Tags:Fingerprint Recognition| Flexible Devices| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 41

OLEDs Can Fold. So What?

by Ken Werner

The idea that a folding OLED display will somehow revolutionize portable product design and create a volcanic market expansion periodically raises its ill-conceived head. A recent occurance was the presentation by UBI Research president …

Tags:Flexible Devices| Flexible Displays| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 36

MIT’s DuoSkin Combines Tech and Fashion

by Tom Allen

MIT, with Microsoft Research, has unveiled a temporary interface for devices like smartwatches and PCs. It is called DuoSkin, and is a fabrication process based around temporary ‘tattoos’. The ‘tattoos’ are made of gold …

Tags:Flexible Devices| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 32| Wearables

FlexTech Completes US Army R&D

by Tom Allen

FlexTech has completed three flexible hybrid electronics R&D projects, under its US Army Research Laboratory technology investment agreement. They include a project with ENrG (Buffalo, New York) to develop a flexible ceramic substrate (20µm …

Tags:Back Panel| Flexible Devices| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 19

NextFlex Seeks Second Round of Proposals

by Tom Allen

Flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) manufacturing institute, NextFlex, based in the USA, has announced a second round of proposals for up to $10 million in project funding (Project Call 2.0). The aim is to further …

Tags:Flexible Devices| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 18

Hybrimer Will Protect Project Valley

by Tom Allen

Transistors formed on Hybrimer. Source: KAIST.KIPost, a Korean news source, says that Samsung will introduce a foldable smartphone at the end of this year. Samsung has apparently been working with Solip Technology, a spin-off …

Tags:Flexible Devices| Glass| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung Display| Vol 23 - Issue 07