Flexible Displays – Page 47

The Advent of OLED Fabric Displays?

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it, sometime between cooking that turkey and ordering your first Christmas gift, the folks at Korea’s national research lab KAIST said they’ve developed a process that can lead to wearable …

Flexenable Wins Awards

by Bob Raikes

Flexenable has won the Emerging Technology Design Award and the Start-up Award at the annual IET Innovation Awards ceremony in London, organised by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). The company was chosen …

Tags:Awards| Back Panel| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 47

Samsung Might Take Wing in 2017

by Bob Raikes

There has been lots of speculation about what Samsung may do with flexible electronics and we just spotted a graphic from a patent for a concept that might be called “Galaxy Wing”. The idea …

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Heraeus Claims 300,000 Folds for Touch Film

by Bob Raikes

Heraeus, the German creator of specialist materials and coatings, said at the C-Touch event in Shenzen that it has a new material, that it calls conductive polymer Clevios and that is based on PEDOT:PSS …

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Apple Granted Patent for Flexible Phones

by Bob Raikes

PatentlyApple has posted news of a US patent (9,485,862) granted to Apple that was apparently filed under the name of an Apple engineer until granting, so that it remained ‘under the radar’. The patent …

Tags:Apple| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Patents| Vol 23 - Issue 43

Smartwatch Market Grows Cold with Same Old Designs

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it, Apple’s non-growth in the Smartwatch market has hit a new high (errr, low?) with a whopping -72% market growth (year over year) according to data from IDC last week. …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Smartwatches| Vol 23 - Issue 43| Wearable Market| Wearables

Does the OLED Contribute to the Note 7 Problem?

by Bob Raikes

A commentator has posted a speculative article that suggests that Samsung’s problems with the Note 7 might be related to the larger flexible OLED used in the device. Analyst Comment I’m not convinced by …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Vol 23 - Issue 41

UBI Expects Full Face Phones to Dominate by 2020

by Bob Raikes

UBI Research of Korea, which is specialising in OLED research, said that it expects new types of flexible OLEDs to be used in smartphones including full screen foldable and rollable. The company also confirms …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 40

UBI Forecasts Flexible OLED to reach $40 billion

by Bob Raikes

A forecast from UBI Research in Korea, quoted by olednet.com, suggests that by 2020, the flexible OLED market will be worth $40 billion by 2020, effectively a 70% compound growth and reaching over $20 …

Tags:AMOLED| Flexible Displays| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 39

How to Best Use Flexible OLEDs?

by Bob Raikes

This week’s issues are a little late – apologies for that, but we hope we’ve finally caught up after IFA and IBC. This week we have quite a lot of stories in Mobile Display …

New Technology Area Round Up

by Bob Raikes

This reporter always enjoy the future technology area at IBC and I often save up visits to the end of a long day. If I get around the ‘moodily-lit STBs’, to quote Paul Gray …

Not Enough Capacity for Flexible G6

by Milos Pavlovic

The ChosunBiz in Korea has reported that a senior LG manager has promised “I will not repeat this mistake” with the next smartphone, the G6, after disappointing sales of the G5, which had modular …

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