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Excitement Growing in Flexible Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

Earlier this week, I was corresponding with Ross Young about the release of his firm’s latest forecast on the foldable smartphone market (more than $100 billion by 2025) and he commented on the excitement …

Tags:Apple| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Forecasts| Glass| Market Data| Samsung| Smartphones

Smartphone Displays: Wrapped, Folded, or Fast?

by Samuel Sheng

The first, and most striking, thing any consumer notices about a smartphone is the display. How bright? How sharp? How big? In many ways, trends in smartphone design can be directly linked to the …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Glass| Smartphones| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)

With Ultra-Thin Glass, Schott Leads the Way

by Ken Werner

Now that consumer electronics companies have decided the world is hungry for smartphones that fold, display makers have developed an equal appetite for ultra-thin glass (UTG). Since it is glass, UTG has admirable optical …

Tags:Corning| Flexible Displays| Glass| Materials

Foldable Smartphones – Can They Drive Demand?

by Sweta Dash

The mature smartphone market has been experiencing declining growth rates for the last three years. The year 2020 was previously expected to be a recovery year with positive growth rate. However, supply chain disruptions, …

Tags:AMOLED| Covid-19| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Glass| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Smartphones

Consortium Developing Roll-to-Roll Thin Glass Based Optoelectronics

by Arthur Berman

A consortium German companies has established the KODOS project. The acronym stands for “Konfektionierter Dünnglas-Verbund für optoelektronische Systeme” or “Thin Glass Composites for Optoelectronic Systems.” The aim of the consortium is to be able …

Tags:Europe| Flexible Displays| Glass| R&D (Research & Development)

Evolving Foldable OLED Smartphone Displays

by Sweta Dash

Samsung Electronics re-launched its Galaxy Fold smartphone at IFA 2019 in September. Other brands have also joined in to introduce many different design concepts of foldable smartphones with OLED display in different sizes and …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Glass| Huawei| Samsung| Smartphones

Corning Releases New Display Glass “ASTRA”

by Norbert Hildebrand

It has been a few years since Corning announced a new glass type for the display industry, This is changing this year with the announcement of Astra, a new glass type for the LCD …

Tags:Backplanes| Corning| Glass| Materials| Oxide TFTs

Quantum Dot Architectures: The Horizon Comes Closer

by Ken Werner

Nanosys, the manufacturer or licensor of essentially all of the quantum dots in commercial usetoday, has long had a roadmap of quantum dot display architectures, each of which require particular developments in quantum dot …

Tags:Glass| Nanosys| Quantum Dots| Samsung