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A major electronic company in the Netherlands
has commenced the manufacture of 100 innovative screens. The manufacture
process of these screens will use 25 micron thick back layer containing
polymer electronics to drive the pixels. These organic electronics
comprise of almost 80,000 thin film transistors and can display
85 dpi. They also contain 200 micron front layer of reflective “electronic
ink” specially developed by E Ink Corporation. These screens
have a maximum diagonal width of 13 cm with a bending radius of
2 cm. The company plans to increase the commercial production of
such screens to 1 million by 2005.
These screens are ideal for mobile phones display. Will mobile
phones use this new technology? Will the usage of polymer flexible
display provide cost effectiveness? Let us wait until 2005 to see
how this new technology finds its usage in mobile phones. In fact,
will the future developments lead to larger screens with the desired
resolution for TV/Computer monitors? Only time will tell.
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