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The Global Flexible Displays Market size is expected to reach $31.5 billion by 2025, rising at a market growth of 25.9% CAGR during the forecast period. Flexible displays are mainly OLED and AMOLED displays that are curved, bended, or fully foldable. Consumer electronics manufacturers have offered numerous smartphones, TV sets and other display devices in a rigid curved form factor in the current market scenario. Although these displays are curved in comparison to traditional rigid flat displays, these displays do not give the end-users true versatility.

Growth is driven by increased demand for display-based consumer electronics coupled with consumer inclination towards energy-efficient, flexible gadgets. Technological advances in display technology have resulted in the introduction of advanced flexible displays, creating opportunities for growth for the market"s key players. In terms of portability, non-fragility and weight, the superior features offered by flexible displays make them an attractive option for consumer electronics manufacturers. In addition, the adoption of flexible displays based on Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) is experiencing exponential growth in high-definition content and high-performance applications. In addition, market demand is propelled by high growth in the smart wearable market.

Based on Type, the market is segmented into OLED and Others. Based on Application, the market is segmented into Smartphone, Smart Wearbles, TV, E-reader, Automotive & Transportation and Others. The segment of smartphones and tablets was the largest market share in 2018. Smartphones have LED-LCD and OLED-based display panels, tablets are extended shape of smartphone and are mainly equipped with LED-LCD display panels. Due to the high demand on the consumer market, various smartphone and laptop manufacturers and suppliers have reached the tablet market. These are made more durable by using flexible displays in smartphones and tablets, as they provide sleek designs and better ergonomics to operate these devices. Based on Material Type, the market is segmented into Plastic, Glass and Others.

Based on Regions, the market is segmented into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America, Middle East & Africa. The presence of a large number of consumer electronics manufacturers and massive customer base is boosting the regional demand for flexible displays. Countries like Japan, South Korea, China, and India are the leaders in flexible display growth. China is the world"s largest producer of flexible OLED displays.

The major strategies followed by the market participants are Product launches and Partnerships & Collaborations. Based on the Analysis presented in the Cardinal matrix, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group) and LG Corporation are some of the forerunners in the Flexible Display Market. The market research report covers the analysis of key stake holders of the market. Key companies profiled in the report include LG Display Co., Ltd. (LG Corporation), Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group), AU Optronics Corporation, Corning, Inc., Sharp Corporation, Kateeva, Inc., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Royole Corporation, E Ink Holdings, Inc. and Visionox Technology, Inc.

Nov-2019: Sharp introduced a 30-inch 4K flexible organic LED (OLED) display in cooperation with Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK). This display has world’s largest color-filter-less (RGB light emission method), high-definition 4K flexible OLED display, and flexibility of film substrate that allows the display to be stored as a compact roll.

Oct-2019: Visionox Technology announced that it has collaborated with Peratech. In this, both the companies have started working on different integrations of Visionox’s AMOLED displays and Visionox’s AMOLED displays for fulfilling the needs of users for display-based interactive interfaces.

Aug-2019: E Ink partnered with AU Optronics for developing thin, impact-resistant, and feather-light e-paper solutions. These solutions support OTFT backplane (Organic Thin Film Transistor) as the display driver. The OTFT backplane technology is suitable for the development and introduction of soft display products including smart clothing and wearable devices.

May-2019: BOE Technology announced its collaboration with Himax Technologies in which Himax launched flexible OLED automotive display driver and timing controller for BOE Technology Group. This technology of Himax has been adopted by BOE in its 12.3-inch three-unit curved flexible OLED automotive displays for cockpit areas with only 0.99 mm bezels.

Dec-2018: Royole partnered with Airbus in order to develop aircraft-cabin applications. In this partnership, both the companies will investigate the commercial opportunities and use of sensors and flexible displays on passenger aircraft.

Dec-2018: Visionox Technology and IDEX Biometrics collaborated on exploring the development of next-generation IDEX’s unique off-chip biometric sensors for smart cards that uses Visionox’s flexible LTPS TFT backplane technology. The collaboration is focused towards the development of feature-rich and cost-effective smart card systems supporting both biometric and display technologies.

Oct-2018: Visionox Technology teamed up with Hefei municipal government for constructing the factory that can produce 30,000 substrates per month. These substrates will be used in sixth-generation active matrix organic light emitting diode displays. Both are thinking of establishing a Joint Venture for building and operating the plant.

Apr-2019: LG Display acquired DuPont"s OLED business as well as its R&D and production facilities. The OLED technology uses an inkjet printing method for adding a soluble material to a panel, thus producing the high-performing displays in an economical manner and reducing the material waste.

Nov-2019: Visionox Technology announced the launch of a foldable clamshell smartphone and a rollable OLED panel hinting, two foldable clamshell prototype. The 6.47" big AMOLED display has been used for this prototype with on-cell technology.

Aug-2019: AU Optronics introduced most advanced 8K Ultra-HD display, which delivers full-area local dimming (FALD) backlighting solution and peak brightness.

May-2019: Corning announced the launch of Corning® Astra(TM) Glass, a new glass substrate optimized for mid-to-large size; immersive displays in notebooks, high-performance tablets, and 8K TVs. This glass has been engineered to enable the higher-pixel density of high-performance displays, which are required by panel makers in order to meet the customer demand for faster, brighter, and more lifelike images.

Apr-2019: Sharp unveiled organic light-emitting diode panels for foldable smartphones. This display has foldable 6.18-inch OLED screen, which can be folded 3, 00,000 times without any damage. The new OLED panels will be produced at Company"s display factory in Sakai.

Feb-2019: Sharp introduced four new models of its 4K Ultra-HD resolution commercial LCD display line. These displays will be ideal for business, retail, and hospitality sectors. This helps the customers to see subtler textures and finer details in photos and videos.

Jan-2019: Samsung Display introduced its first 15.6-inch OLED panel for the notebook market. This panel delivers brighter colors and deeper blacks over 4K LCD-based screens.

Oct-2018: Royole introduced the Royole FlexPai, a commercial foldable smartphone, a combination of tablet and mobile phone with flexible screen. This smartphone is based upon Royole"s Flexible+ platform; this can be easily combined into a number of products and applications across different industries.

Aug-2018: Samsung extended its curved display line-up with the launch of new CJ79 (Model name: C34J791) monitor. This monitor has the feature of Intel’s Thunderbolt™ 3 connectivity and is designed for business and creative audiences that are seeking efficient and comfortable work experience through powerful connectivity.

Aug-2019: LG Display expanded its reach to China by developing a new production line. This factory is established in Guangzhou for producing 60,000 OLED sheets in 55 inches and above and focuses on the transformation of TV landscape.

Sep-2018: Sharp expanded its reach to Asia Pacific region by launching 70X500E, its 8K professional display panel in India. This panel was incorporated with Sharp"s wealth of Ultra-High-Resolution Monitor technologies for high brightness and wide color gamut.

FlexEnable’s glass-free organic LCD (OLCD) delivers high-brightness, long lifetime flexible displays that are low cost and scalable to large areas, while also being thin, lightweight and shatterproof.

OLCD is a plastic display technology with full colour and video-rate capability. It enables product companies to create striking designs and realise novel use cases by merging the display into the product design rather than accommodating it by the design.

Unlike flexible OLED displays, which are predominantly adopted in flagship smartphones and smartwatches, OLCD opens up the use of flexible displays to a wider range of mass-market applications. It has several attributes that make it better suited than flexible OLED to applications across large-area consumer electronics, smart home appliances, automotive, notebooks and tablets, and digital signage.

OLCD can be conformed and wrapped around surfaces and cut into non-rectangular shapes during the production process. Holes can be also added to fit around the functional design of the system – for example around knobs and switches.

As with glass-based LCD, the lifetime of OLCD is independent of the display brightness, because it is achieved through transmission of a separate light source (the backlight), rather than emission of its own light. For example OLCD can be made ultra-bright for viewing in daylight conditions without affecting the display lifetime – an important requirement for vehicle surface-integrated displays.

OLCD is the lowest cost flexible display technology – it is three to four times lower cost that flexible OLED today. This is because it makes use of existing display factories and supply chain and deploys a low temperature process that results in low manufacturing costs and high yield.

Unlike other flexible display approaches, OLCD is naturally scalable to large sizes. It can be made as small or as large as the manufacturing equipment used for flat panel displays allows.

The flexibility of OLCD allows an ultra-narrow bezel to be implemented by folding down the borders behind the display. This brings huge value in applications like notebooks and tablets where borderless means bigger displays for the same sized device. The bezel size allowed by OLCD is independent of the display size or resolution. In addition, OLCD can make a notebook up to 100g lighter and 0.5mm thinner.

OLCD is the key to the fabrication of ultra-high contrast dual cell displays with true pixel level dimming, offering OLED-like performance at a fraction of the cost. The extremely thin OLCD substrate brings advantages in cost, viewing angle and module thickness compared to glass displays. At the same time OLCD retains the flexibility required for applications such as surface-integrated automotive displays.

Due to its unique properties, OLCD has the potential to transform how and where displays are used in products. The videos below give a glimpse into this innovative technology.

OLCD brings the benefits of being thin, light, shatterproof and conformable, while offering the same quality and performance as traditional glass LCDs. The mechanical advantages of plastic OLCD over glass LCD are further enhanced by the technology’s excellent optical performance, much of which originates from the extreme thinness of plastic TAC substrates compared to glass.

FlexEnable’s award-winning flexible technology platform, including our unique FlexiOM™ materials, brings transformational possibilities to products including AR and VR optics, ePrivacy screens, automotive smart windows and displays. The complete low temperature manufacturing process allows, for the first time, commonly available and optically ideal flexible bio-degradable substrates such as TAC film to be used instead of glass. This innovative technology is used to make active matrix flexible Organic Liquid Crystal Displays(OLCDs) and flexible active optical films which are thin, light and conformable to almost any surface.

Today FlexEnable has around 600 patents and patent applications globally for OTFT and Liquid Crystal (LC) Cell materials, processes and architectures. The company has technology transfer programmes underway with several leading display manufacturers in Asia as well as commercial programmes with some of the world’s biggest brands in consumer electronics.

Our OTFT platform is the most flexible array technology available and offers unique benefits to display makers. The scalable organic transistor processes have been specifically designed to be implemented on today’s flat panel display manufacturing lines and are already proven for mass production. They are the lowest cost way to produce area-scalable active-matrix flexible displays and optics. Through our Technology Transfer and Licensing programme we help manufacturing partners not only achieve product innovation, but also reduce their environmental impact by implementing sustainable manufacturing.

Our unique manufacturing approach minimises the environmental impact compared to today’s glass-based display production. We do this by reducing energy consumption, reusing equipment, and using recyclable materials. For example, in comparison to glass displays, OLCD brings huge energy savings primarily as a result of the incredibly low manufacturing temperatures used:

Reduce – At 100°C, the reduced manufacturing temperatures of organic transistors compared to 300°C-500°C of silicon TFTs reduces energy consumption in production compared to glass displays. The combined energy savings of low temperatures and CVD-free processes of OLCD reduce production energy by around 25% compared to glass LCD. With a medium-sized (Gen 6) display factory consuming around 500 GWh/year, this major energy saving also results in a carbon footprint reduction of 67,000 tonnes of CO2 per year for a single factory. If applied industry-wide the energy savings alone would be enough to power 1 million homes.

Reuse – OLCD is purposefully designed to re-use existing factories originally built to make glass displays. This prolongs the useful economic life of existing installations by giving them the capability to manufacture highly disruptive flexible display technology and then rapidly scale volume production.

Recycle – The low process temperatures allow a plastic film known as TAC (Tri acetyl cellulose) to be used as the substrate instead of glass. TAC is a widely available bioplastic made of a cellulose derived from the same raw material as paper, is highly recyclable and biodegradable, and already used in the displays supply chain. During production of the flexible displays, the TAC film is stuck to a sheet of display glass. After production is complete the flexible display is removed, and the glass is reused for the next display.

FlexEnable’s efficient manufacturing approach to making flexible electronics is unique. The conventional approach is to manufacture silicon or other ceramic-based circuits on glass with a highly engineered interlayer that is capable of coping with the extreme process temperatures, often surpassing 450°C. The removal of the finished circuit from the glass requires stressful and often expensive debonding techniques that make it difficult to scale to large sizes cost effectively.

Our approach is to use conventional adhesive technology to attach low-cost plastic films to glass and then use our low temperature organic transistor process to manufacture the same circuits. This allows us to use a very simple and efficient demount process to release the flexible device and recycle the glass carrier. In the world of flexible electronics, low temperature manufacturing is the key to low cost, scalable and sustainable.

3In contrast to the standard flat screen displays used in several electrical gadgets, a flexible display or bendable display is an electronic visual display manufactured by flexible display brands. Several consumer electronics firms have expressed enthusiasm in using this display technologies in e-readers, smart phones, and other electronic goods in recent times. Such screens may be rolled up like a scroll without distorting the image or text. Electronic ink, Gyricon, Organic LCD, and OLED are among the technologies used to create a bendable display.

With the flat panel screen having been extensively used for more than 40 years, many desirable advances in display technology have been made, with the goal of creating lighter, thinner products that are simpler to carry and store. Scientists and engineers think that flexible flat panel display innovation has a large commercial possibility in the future, thanks to recent advancements in flexible display technique.

Flexible displays offered by the flexible display brands are still somewhat costly as contrasted to their rigid equivalents, and visual quality is frequently sacrificed. When the screen is bent at a specific angle, this is extremely evident. However, in comparison to standard displays, flexible screens have a shorter lifespan.

Current models should endure a long time for the majority of users’ demands. However, most flexible display brands still require tackling this issue, particularly given the rising pricing of flexible display devices.

views itself as a supplier of intelligent vertical systems underpinned by premium display technology as an optoelectronics specialist. The company’s vast expertise, innovative skills, and corporate sustainability set it apart and set it out from the competition.

In terms of display as a networking and communication interface, AUO offers a wide range of alternatives in retail, healthcare, transport, and other industries, with the goal of forming eco-systems with partnerships across all sectors and ushering the world into a new smarter lifestyle.

is critical to advancement in both the sectors it shapes and the planet it shares. They use materials science to create life-changing technology. They are at the core of how the world communicates, performs, educates, and lives because of their technical and production competence, insatiable curiosity, and devotion to meaningful creativity.

Through its novel panel-centric and vertical integration operation style,unifies the product production supply chain and offers clients with full solutions. Innolux has a clear emphasis on handling technology and elements, as well as superior administration skills, in addition to a solid TFT-LCD basis and manufacturing quality. Innolux develops standards, sets market trends, and offers a comprehensive product portfolio and services to their suppliers’ clients in the data and electronic goods industries. ​

Japan Display Incorporateddevelops, designs, manufactures, and sells displays where a user interface is required to transmit a large amount of data in a short amount of time and to a worldwide market. They design engaging settings that go above and beyond the ordinary, enrich people’s lives, and stir their hearts.

LG Displayis the world’s top inventor of display technologies, comprising TFT-LCD and OLED screens, as well as the worldwide leader in OLED lighting. The firm makes display screens in a variety of dimensions and standards for usage in televisions, laptop computers, desktop workstations, and other purposes, such as tablets and mobile phones. It also manufactures OLED light screens for the automobile and interior decorating industries.

Visionoxis the globe’s renowned provider of sophisticated display systems that are both integrated and interactive. The company’s objective is to lead China’s OLED industry via technical innovation” and its ambition is to “push limits to enrich the experience of eyesight.

OLED is an emerging display technology that enables beautiful and efficient displays and lighting panels. OLEDs are already being used in smartphones, laptops, wearables, tablets and TVs, and many of OLEDs are flexible ones.

A flexible OLED is based on a flexible substrate (usually polyimide). The first generation of OLEDs produced on these were not really flexible from the user perspective. The device maker bends the displays, or curves it - but the final user is not able to actually bend the device. These first-gen flexible OLEDs are adopted many premium smartphones, for example the Samsung edge-type Galaxy phones or Apple"s latest iPhones. A plastic-based OLED has several advantages especially in mobile devices - the displays are lighter, thinner and more durable compared to glass based displays.

Second generation flexible OLED displays can be bent by the user - these can be used for example to create foldable smartphones - the first range of which started shipping in 2019. Rollable OLEDs are also now entering the market for both TVs and smartphones.

While several companies (including Samsung, LG, BOE and others) are producing OLED displays, it is not straightforward to find a good and reliable supply of these displays.

If you are interested in buying a flexible OLED panel for your project or device, look no further. Our OLED Marketplace offers several flexible OLEDs, which can be ordered through us with ease.

Panox Display provides free connectors for clients who purchase more than five products from us. Our product range includes connectors from Molex, Kyocera, AXE, AXG, JAE, Hiros, and more.

Panox Display provides a customized cover glass/touch panel service. We supply cover glass from Gorilla, AGC, and Panda, which all have excellent optical performance. We also supply driver ICs from Goodix and Focaltech.

If your applications are directly connected to a PC, a cellphone, or Raspberry Pi, and you have enough space to insert a board to input video, Panox Display can provide customized Controller/Driver boards with input connections for VGA, HDMI, DVI, DP, Type-C video input, MIPI, RGB, LVDS, and eDP.

Foldable and flexible displays have been making the rounds in recent years. Numerous phones, monitors, and other devices have been making headlines for incorporating this new and innovative spin on electronic displays.

Manufacturers are also pouring tons of money into research and development, with an apparent belief that they’ll be the next big advancement in display technology. But are they?

Flexible screens are an exciting take on the traditional flat-screen display. And in a sense, they seem like the logical next step in display technology. But this seemingly newfound concept is actually a lot older than you might think. Enter: Xerox PARC.

Xerox PARC, the company that pioneered many of today’s technologies, such as the laser printer and Ethernet standard, also developed the concept of a flexible electronic display way back in 1974. The concept was developed into an “electronic paper” called Gyricon.

Since then, there have been many big changes in the development of display technology behind the scenes. But possibly the biggest one that makes modern flexible screens possible is OLED technology.

Due to the nature of OLED screens, which don’t need separate backlighting to function, it’s now possible to create displays thin enough to bend and flex. Combined with advancements in screen and glass technologies, you have the modern form of bendable and flexible screens and displays.

Modern problems require modern solutions. And while flexible displays are anything but new, novel twists using the technology can showcase how it can be viable going forward and why we could be on the cusp of the next big thing.

Samsung is a manufacturer pushing boundaries with their flexible and foldable phones, but they are not focused solely on the mobile market. Samsung’s Odyssey Ark is a 55-inch curved display able to rotate, pivot, and tilt with Samsung’s proprietary Height Adjustable Stand (HAS). Combined with the curved, densely packed mini LED arrangement, the Odyssey Ark provides unique viewing that fills viewers’ peripheral vision to create a more immersive experience. The Odyssey Ark also gives users full customization by vertically or horizontally orienting the display. One of the Odyssey Ark’s features, Flex Move, allows users to adjust the screen size and ratios to tailor their viewing experience further.

If you’ve watched videos or played games on a mobile device, you know that having a bigger screen can be much easier on the eyes. And this is one space where flexible and foldable displays are looking to revolutionize the tech industry.

Folding phones can also allow us to have larger screens without making them unwieldy. The Galaxy Z Fold 4 boasts an impressive 7.6-inch display but folds down to a mere 6.2-inch phone-sized device that packs a tablet-sized wallop. And as companies continue to work out the kinks in foldable and flip phone designs, we could see phones that fold multiple times to allow for even bigger screens.

Smartphones seem to be leading the revolution of flexible screens, with folding phones first making their debut in 2018. But laptops would soon join the fold with the release of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold in 2020.

In any case, it’s usable as a laptop and showcases how the future of laptops could use folding screen tech. With its 16-inch model folding down to a modest 12 inches, it’s not too far-fetched to think that we could eventually see 20+-inch laptops hitting the market with this technology.

Curved monitors are nothing new in the PC space and have made it to the mainstream. With the push for larger displays, having a curved screen allows for better immersion and utilization of the extra screen real estate. And so, unsurprisingly, flexible display technology is also making its way into the home as well.

You may have heard of the recently announced Corsair Xeneon Flex. If not, it’s essentially a new 45-inch flexible OLED gaming monitor that allows you to adjust the screen’s curvature.

This makes it ideal if you want a multipurpose monitor where you can choose between a flat or curved panel based on what you’re doing. For productivity-oriented tasks, a flat display might suit you more, while when gaming, having a curved display can create a more immersive environment.

However, while it’s a first in the PC display space, large flexible screens aren’t entirely new. In fact, they date back to at least 2014, when Samsung and LG unveiled a couple of massive flexible TVs during that year’s CES.

Curved and flexible TVs have been a much harder sell than their smaller computer monitor brethren, likely because they don’t work so well in the living room context. But what about rollable TVs?

Much like rollable smartphones, rollable TVs are probably the most interesting use of flexible display tech so far, allowing you to have a monstrous screen that can completely hide away with a simple push of a button.

The 64.5-inch LG OLED R debuted in 2021 and is the world’s first commercially available rollable TV. Of course, it’s not something you or anyone is likely to actually purchase, thanks to its eye-watering $100,000 price tag. Nevertheless, it’s an intriguing take on where flexible screens can possibly lead us to in the future of televisions.

Flexible screens present a number of advantages to their rigid counterparts that could reshape how we think of smartphones, computers, and televisions in the future. But right now, we’re in the awkward early stages where there are still plenty of kinks to work out.

Chief among them is the price. It’s understandable – as, with all new technology, lofty prices are the norm in the beginning. Go back 50 years, and you can see equally (if not more) eye-watering prices for early home computers (devices that are now significantly less capable than even the cheapest computers today).

Nevertheless, flexible display devices costing thousands make it a hard sell for most consumers. Comparable, non-flexible alternatives are available for much less, making them even less compelling.

Durability is another important factor for adoption. Display tech over the last 20 years has been rather frail, and consumers are keenly aware of this. Plastic and ultra-thin glass screens are highly susceptible to damage, and the addition of mechanical action – another potential point of failure – to primarily electronic devices makes for a justifiable concern, further hampering adoption.

The rise of plastic and flexible displays will be accompanied by a shift from glass substrates to plastic substrates such as polyimide. However, glass-based displays will remain an important technology, especially in the TV segment where scale-up and cost reduction are still the main challenges. In contrast, flexible OLED devices can be fabricated by deposition of the organic layer onto the substrate using a method derived from inkjet printing, allowing the inexpensive and roll-to-roll fabrication of printed electronics.

OLED is an emerging display technology that enables beautiful and efficient displays and lighting panels. Thin OLEDs are already being used in many mobile devices and TVs, and the next generation of these panels will be flexible and bendable.

Besides the thousands of beautiful design possibilities, a flexible OLED has several advantages especially in mobile devices – the displays are lighter, thinner and more durable compared to glass based displays.

Flexible OLEDs can be used in the creation of rollable displays, electronic paper, or bendable displays which can be integrated into clothing, wallpaper or other curved surfaces. Prototype displays have been exhibited by companies such as Sony, which are capable of being rolled around the width of a pencil

​OLEDs can also be used to make white lighting panels. OLED is a diffuse area lighting source with unique characteristics. While OLED lighting is still in its infancy, many believe that flexible OLED lighting panels may provide designers with a new lighting source that will create stunning designs. OLED technology may usher in a new era of large-area, transparent, flexible and low-energy display and lighting products. LED, LCD and OLED displays are made the same way : a combination of several layers. It is mainly composed of organic materials ( carbon based ) that emit light when electricity is applied to them. The basic structure of an OLED is an emissive layer sandwiched between a cathode (which injects electrons) and an anode (which removes electrons). OLED technology allows less layers than LCD because the components are self sufficient; they don’t need a light layer; they produce it them selves The O stands for organic, and it removes the necessity of a back panel providing light to the screen. Therefore, the display becomes bendable. Developing sufficiently durable and flexible OLEDs will require better materials and further development of manufacturing tools and processes. Flexible plastic substrates need improved barrier layers to protect OLEDs from moisture and oxygen. Thin-film encapsulation also is needed to create thin and flexible metal- and glass-based OLEDs.

These advances ultimately may lead to very flexible OLED panels for both display and lighting products, ensuring that any surface area – flat or curved – will be able to host a light source. Substantial development efforts are being invested in this area and, if successful, flexible OLED panels may become commercially available as early as the last half of this decade.

Tv suppliers such as LG and Samsung are constantly working on the improvement of this technology and have already presented foldable screens. It is possible to roll it up, but not to fold it flat in two, which operation would damage the display, creating dead pixels. Dead pixels are those that have been damaged; instead of emitting the correct colour, they just appear as a black square. The nowadays technologies allow engineers to create HD flexible OLED screens, but they announce that it will soon become 4K resolution displays ( 4 times HD ). The present resolution is 1200 by 810 pixels.

A flexible display or rollable display is an electronic visual display which is flexible in nature, as opposed to the traditional flat screen displays used in most electronic devices.e-readers, mobile phones and other consumer electronics. Such screens can be rolled up like a scroll without the image or text being distorted.electronic ink, Gyricon, Organic LCD, and OLED.

Electronic paper displays which can be rolled up have been developed by E Ink. At CES 2006, Philips showed a rollable display prototype, with a screen capable of retaining an image for several months without electricity.pixel rollable display based on E Ink’s electrophoretic technology.flexible organic light-emitting diode displays have been demonstrated.electronic paper wristwatch. A rollable display is an important part of the development of the roll-away computer.

With the flat panel display having already been widely used more than 40 years, there have been many desired changes in the display technology, focusing on developing a lighter, thinner product that was easier to carry and store. Through the development of rollable displays in recent years, scientists and engineers agree that flexible flat panel display technology has huge market potential in the future.

Flexible electronic paper (e-paper) based displays were the first flexible displays conceptualized and prototyped. Though this form of flexible displays has a long history and were attempted by many companies, it is only recently that this technology began to see commercial implementations slated for mass production to be used in consumer electronic devices.

The concept of developing a flexible display was first put forth by Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Company). In 1974, Nicholas K. Sheridon, a PARC employee, made a major breakthrough in flexible display technology and produced the first flexible e-paper display. Dubbed Gyricon, this new display technology was designed to mimic the properties of paper, but married with the capacity to display dynamic digital images. Sheridon envisioned the advent of paperless offices and sought commercial applications for Gyricon.

In 2005, Arizona State University opened a 250,000 square foot facility dedicated to flexible display research named the ASU Flexible Display Center (FDC). ASU received $43.7 million from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) towards the development of this research facility in February 2004.demonstration later that year.Hewlett Packard demonstrated a prototype flexible e-paper from the Flexible Display Center at the university.

Between 2004–2008, ASU developed its first small-scale flexible displays.U.S. Army funds ASU’s development of the flexible display, the center’s focus is on commercial applications.

This company develops and manufactures monochrome plastic flexible displays in various sizes based on its proprietary organic thin film transistor (OTFT) technology. They have also demonstrated their ability to produce colour displays with this technology, however they are currently not capable of manufacturing them on a large scale.Dresden, Germany, which was the first factory of its kind to be built – dedicated to the high volume manufacture of organic electronics.plastic and do not contain glass. They are also lighter and thinner than glass-based displays and low-power. Applications of this flexible display technology include signage,wristwatches and wearable devices

In 2004, a team led by Prof. Roel Vertegaal at Queen"s University"s Human Media Lab in Canada developed PaperWindows,Organic User Interface. Since full-colour, US Letter-sized displays were not available at the time, PaperWindows deployed a form of active projection mapping of computer windows on real paper documents that worked together as one computer through 3D tracking. At a lecture to the Gyricon and Human-Computer Interaction teams at Xerox PARC on 4 May 2007, Prof. Vertegaal publicly introduced the term Organic User Interface (OUI) as a means of describing the implications of non-flat display technologies on user interfaces of the future: paper computers, flexible form factors for computing devices, but also encompassing rigid display objects of any shape, with wrap-around, skin-like displays. The lecture was published a year later as part of a special issue on Organic User InterfacesCommunications of the ACM. In May 2010, the Human Media Lab partnered with ASU"s Flexible Display Center to produce PaperPhone,MorePhone

Research and development into flexible OLED displays largely began in the late 2000s with the main intentions of implementing this technology in mobile devices. However, this technology has recently made an appearance, to a moderate extent, in consumer television displays as well.

Nokia first conceptualized the application of flexible OLED displays in mobile phone with the Nokia Morph concept mobile phone. Released to the press in February 2008, the Morph concept was project Nokia had co-developed with the University of Cambridge.nanotechnology, it pioneered the concept of utilizing a flexible video display in a consumer electronics device.London, alongside Nokia’s new range of Windows Phone 7 devices.

Sony Electronics expressed interest for research and development towards a flexible display video display since 2005.RIKEN (the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Sony promised to commercialize this technology in TVs and cellphones sometime around 2010.TFT-driven OLED display.

In January 2013, Samsung exposed its brand new, unnamed product during the company"s keynote address at CES in Las Vegas. Brian Berkeley, the senior vice president of Samsung"s display lab in San Jose, California had announced the development of flexible displays. He said "the technology will let the company"s partners make bendable, rollable, and foldable displays," and he demonstrated how the new phone can be rollable and flexible during his speech.

During Samsung"s CES 2013 keynote presentation, two prototype mobile devices codenamed "Youm" that incorporated the flexible AMOLED display technology were shown to the public.OLED screen giving this phone deeper blacks and a higher overall contrast ratio with better power efficiency than traditional LCD displays.LCD displays. Samsung stated that "Youm" panels will be seen in the market in a short time and production will commence in 2013.

The Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University announced a continued effort in forwarding flexible displays in 2012.Army Research Lab scientists, ASU announced that it has successfully manufactured the world"s largest flexible OLED display using thin-film transistor (TFTs) technology.

In January 2019, Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi showed a foldable smartphone prototype.Xiaomi demoed the device in a video on the Weibo social network. The device features a large foldable display that curves 180 degrees inwards on two sides. The tablet turns into a smartphone, with a screen diagonal of 4,5 inch, adjusting the user interface on the fly.

Flexible displays have many advantages over glass: better durability, lighter weight, thinner as plastic, and can be perfectly curved and used in many devices.glass and rollable display is that the display area of a rollable display can be bigger than the device itself; If a flexible device measuring, for example, 5 inches in diagonal and a roll of 7.5mm, it can be stored in a device smaller than the screen itself and close to 15mm in thickness.

Flexible screens can open the doors to novel and alternative authentication schemes by emphasizing the interaction between the user and the touch screen. In “Bend Passwords: Using Gestures to Authenticate on Flexible Devices,” the authors introduce a new method called Bend Passwords where users perform bending gestures and deform the touch screen to unlock the phone. Their work and research points to Bend Passwords possibly becoming a new way to keep smartphones secure alongside the popularization of flexible displays.

Flexible displays using electronic paper technology commonly use Electrophoretic or Electrowetting technologies. However, each type of flexible electronic paper vary in specification due to different implementation techniques by different companies.

The flexible electronic paper display technology co-developed by Arizona State University and HP employs a manufacturing process developed by HP Labs called Self-Aligned Imprint Lithography (SAIL).

The flexible electronic paper display announced by AUO is unique as it is the only solar powered variant. A separate rechargeable battery is also attached when solar charging is unavailable.

Many of the e-paper based flexible displays are based on OLED technology and its variants. Though this technology is relatively new in comparison with e-paper based flexible displays, implementation of OLED flexible displays saw considerable growth in the last few years.

In May 2011, Human Media Lab at Queen"s University in Canada introduced PaperPhone, the first flexible smartphone, in partnership with the Arizona State University Flexible Display Center.

At CES 2013, Samsung showcased the two handsets which incorporates AMOLED flexible display technology during its keynote presentation, the Youm and an unnamed Windows Phone 8 prototype device.Galaxy Note Edge,Samsung Galaxy S series devices.

LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics both introduced curved OLED televisions with a curved display at CES 2013 hours apart from each other.The Verge noted the subtle curve on 55" Samsung OLED TV allowed it to have a "more panoramic, more immersive viewing experience, and actually improves viewing angles from the side."

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There are two types of oled display modules available on Alibaba.com. Flexible oled display modules, such as flexible-display oleds, and lcdds are available in bulk.

Flexible lcdds are available in the form of flexible-sensitive lcdds, and flexible lcdds are all available. For a more detailed look, Alibaba.com offers a wide range of oled displays in bulk and explore the range of oled displays available.

Find oled display modules that are as flexible as the others. The flexible size of Oled display modules means it can be used in many cases. The oled display is flexible, as the Pixel is short and high-quality.

When looking for a flexible oled display set, you can choose from a wide range of flexible LED display sets, such as the 6-pixel flexible Oled display set, which is suitable for a variety of uses. The flexible LED display set of oled displays with different brightness and dimits, such as 5 12 pixels, or 12- pixel-led oled displays.

One of the many benefits of OLEDs includes its manufacturability on rigid (glass) or flexible substrates. We are working on a number of technologies required for the fabrication of OLEDs on flexible substrates or FOLEDs. FOLEDs are OLEDs built on non-rigid substrates such as plastic or metal foil. This enhances the durability and enables conformation to certain shapes and even repeated bending, rolling or flexing. FOLEDs, still in their infancy, will usher in a range of new design possibilities for the display and lighting industries. Imagine having a mobile phone that looks like a pen but has a bright, full-color display that rolls in and out for use. We call that the Universal Communication Device™ (UCD). Open your imagination to what consumer and lighting products can be, including a foldable smartphone that could open up into a tablet display, a television that could roll up into your pocket, and conformable transparent interior lighting panels that could be unbreakable. These ideas offer, we believe, a mere glimpse into the wonders and possibilities that FOLEDs engender.

History. In the late 1990s, our research partner at Princeton University discovered that small-molecule OLEDs could be built on flexible substrates, such as thin plastic. Since then, our team has led the development of this very exciting next-generation technology.

Offering the display capabilities of a high-quality screen, while providing extreme compactness when not in use, FOLEDs also offer unique performance features not possible with today’s LCDs. For use in lighting, FOLEDs can also provide some significant advantages over conventional incandescent and fluorescent lighting. FOLED benefits include:

Thinner and lighter weight – Built on very thin plastic or metal foil, FOLEDs can be much thinner and lighter than backlit LCDs and other displays in the market today. So cell phones, portable computers, wall-mounted televisions and other products with displays, can also be lighter and smaller. Plus, FOLED technology may allow easier installation of white OLED lighting tiles in more settings, and create novel uses in architecture that are not possible with today’s fluorescent and incandescent lights.

More durable, safer and impact resistant – Glass breakage is a major issue of display-containing products and a key safety concern in the lighting field. Plastic and metal-based FOLEDs essentially eliminate these issues, creating obvious advantages in both displays and lighting.

Flexible – Depending on the thickness and intrinsic properties of the flexible substrate, FOLEDs can be made to be bendable, conformable, rollable and foldable. With continued development, FOLEDs will be made to flex routinely for use in such products conceptualized as the UCD.

Cost-effective – Today, OLEDs typically use production techniques that rely on the sequential processing of discrete glass panels. With flexible substrates that typically originate in a roll-stock format (like paper rolls), it is envisioned that FOLED production may evolve to higher throughput, roll-to-roll processes, as commonly used in the printing industry. This may provide the basis for truly low-cost mass production.

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There are many different manufacturers of flexible displays. Some well-known flexible display manufacturers are Hewlett Packard, Dell, Samsung, Jitterbug, palming monochrome printer LED, and ViewSonic. The most common use for a flexible display is in product packaging. Flexible displays are often used to create 3D images by using stereo display systems and image-processing circuitry. They can be used in product packaging applications for things like watches, pens, shoes, and even electronics.

Many flexible display manufacturers have created advanced image processing circuitry with the capability to process three dimensional data. This technology allows an LCD or LED display to change the image so it appears as though it is displayed on a 2D surface. One very popular display company is Venturebeat who has developed a very unique display technique called panoramic display. A panoramic display displays an image across multiple horizontal or vertical planes. Panoramic displays can be used for a wide range of display applications including robotic surgery, electronic billboards, augmented reality, and more.

Panoramic displays are being used to display images on medical equipment such as robotic arms, and surgical robots. They are also being applied to electronic displays to create e-papers which are flat images on a thin layer of paper. These electronic displays are becoming more common and more sophisticated and we will continue to see more applications for flexible oled displays.

In addition to digital displays, flexible displays are also starting to make their way into the business world. Businesses such as hotels, restaurants, call centers, airports, and convention centers are all implementing flexible display technology in their daily operations. Flexible displays allow employees to be given clear and easy-to-read information regarding their schedules and other important information about the business. They are also making their way into the courtroom, where they are often used to display legal briefs and other legal documents.

Flexible oled screen technology is also being used to display safety and emergency signs in the workplace.As exciting as all of this technology sounds, there are still some drawbacks to flexible displays and they include some limitations to how consumers can interact with them. This may limit the ability of certain technologies to create specific types of interactions or to provide for interactive elements such as touch screens or even a keyboard.

Also, these displays do not offer you the same level of portability that a touch screen does which could be a significant disadvantage depending on the type of device you are using it on.

However, this is likely to change in the near future as display technology for smart phones becomes more affordable and becomes more like a standard item in today"s marketplace.

The hype for flexible displays is huge, and there’s an ongoing battle in the flexible OLED market. Chinese actors such as BOE, Visionox, and Royole are making massive investments to scale up production and break the South Korean monopoly. But what should the flexible displays be used for? Is there room for low-cost flexible segment displays on the market?

The most common flexible display is flexible OLED technology. There are also other flexible display technologies, such as flexible EPD and flexible electrochromic displays. A flexible display is fundamentally the same thing as any other display, the difference being that it is built on a flexible substrate. This substrate could be plastic, paper, metal, or flexible glass. Flexible displays are typically very light, thin, and almost shatter-proof. Sometimes curved, bendable, and foldable displays are discussed, which are, in principle, the same as flexible displays.

The total flexible display market will according to a recent press release from MarketsandMarkets™ exceed 15 billion USD by 2022. Based on information from the same source, the market size in 2016 was 2.67 billion USD. But where are the flexible displays today, and why are they important?

As of right now, the single biggest applications for flexible displays is the smartphone. The value-added functionality can be debated, but from a purely aesthetic point of view, a flexible display has some quite impressing features. Several smartphone vendors, e.g. Samsung, LG, Huawei, Sony, Xiaomi, and Oppo, are currently offering phones with flexible displays that are wrapped around the edges of the devices. These displays certainly look beautiful, and this appearance cannot be achieved with a rigid display. Many actors also claim that the flexible displays are more durable and rugged, which of course is increasing the value of the relatively novel technology. Other devices that can utilize a flexible display for the same purpose, namely curved edges, are also tablets and wearable technology, such as smartwatches. To conclude, flexible displays today are used to follow edges, curves, and the shape of electronic devices.

There are also other likely applications that are arguably more futuristic and with greater potential from a user perspective. Flexible OLEDs can be astonishingly thin and prototypes have exhibited a very small bend radius. The display actor Royole demonstrated already in 2014 a flexible AMOLED with a thickness that only measures 0.01 mm and with 1 mm bend radius. Applications not yet seen on the market include rollable and foldable keyboards, monitors, televisions, and laptop displays. There are also prototypes of VR/AR headsets utilizing this very thin flexible displays.

The OLED technology is notoriously expensive and thereby not a candidate to be implemented in low-cost and low-power devices, such as electronic shelf labels, low-end IoT devices, smart textile, smart packaging, and other low-cost consumer and industrial electronics. For these applications, flexible displays will allow product developers to utilize a display that will seamlessly follow the surface of the device. The future is not flat, it is more likely curved and flexible. This is why flexible displays are needed. Many product developers have historically been forced to make their devices flat due to there not being any good flexible display alternatives on the market. Until now...

If you"re seeking an affordable flexible display, the rdot display is the only viable option. This fact is also concluded in an article about various seven segment display technologies. In contrast to the typical full color matrix OLED, the rdot display is a segment display, based on organic electrochromic materials. Please watch our video or read more on the rdot technology page.

Major players in the flexible display market are BOE Technology Group Co., LG Display Co.Ltd., Royole Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Japan Display Inc., AU Optronics Corp., Innolux Corporation, Corning Incorporated, Sharp Corporation, Visionox Company, E Ink Holdings Inc.

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The global flexible display market grew from $14.53 billion in 2022 to $19.77 billion in 2023 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 36.1%. The Russia-Ukraine war disrupted the chances of global economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, at least in the short term. The war between these two countries has led to economic sanctions on multiple countries, a surge in commodity prices, and supply chain disruptions, causing inflation across goods and services, and affecting many markets across the globe. The flexible display market is expected to grow to $62.2 billion in 2027 at a CAGR of 33.2%.

The flexible display market consists of sales of flexible LCD, passive-matrix LCD, active-matric-LDC, OLED display, passive-matrix OLED, active-matrix OLED, and electrophoretic displays.Values in this market are ‘factory gate’ values, that is the value of goods sold by the manufacturers or creators of the goods, whether to other entities (including downstream manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers) or directly to end customers.

A flexible display refers to an electronic display printed on a foldable plastic membrane that can easily be twisted.These displays can withstand being folded, bent, and twisted, and they are more flexible as compared to a flat display.

North America was the largest region in the flexible display market in 2022. The regions covered in the flexible display market report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East and Africa.

The flexible display market consists of sales of flexible displays by entities (organizations, sole traders, and partnerships) that are used in virtual reality (VR) headsets, digital cameras, laptops, and televisions.A flexible display refers to an electronic display printed on a foldable plastic membrane that can easily be twisted.

These displays can withstand being folded, bent, and twisted, and they are more flexible as compared to a flat display. These have better durability and are lightweight in nature.

The main types of flexible display are OLED (organic light-emitting diodes), LCD (liquid-crystal display), EPD (electronic paper display), and others.The OLED-based flexible displays are used in televisions, computer systems, laptops, and smartphones owing to their better image quality, high degree of flexibility, and consumption of less energy.

OLED refers to a light-emitting technology designed by placing organic films between two conductors.The different form factors include curved display, bendable and foldable display, and rollable display.

The rising demand for OLED-based devices is expected to propel the growth of the flexible display market going forward.An OLED refers to an organic electroluminescent (organic EL) diode, which is a light-emitting diode, that contains an emissive electroluminescent layer that gives good quality to the picture.

Most flexible displays are made of OLED displays because they give better picture quality even when the screen is bent and twisted. For instance, in 2021, according to the Retailers Association of India (RAI), an Indian retail trade association consumer electronics and appliance sales climbed by 23.5 percent in the third quarter of 2021 than it was in the same period in 2020.Therefore, the rising use of OLED displays in devices such as smartphones and TV is driving the growth of the flexible display market.

Technological advancements have emerged as a key trend gaining popularity in the flexible display market.Major companies operating in the flexible display market are focused on technological advancements to strengthen their position in the market.

For instance, in January 2022, Samsung Electronics, a South Korea-based developer of smartphones, laptops, and televisions, launched new displays, namely, MicroLed, Neo QLED, in their new Lifestyle Television models.The Neo Quantum Processor allows the TV to control its lighting and enhance the brightness and accuracy of all shapes on the screen.

In July 2022, Samsung, a South Korea-based company operating in electronics manufacturing including flexible electronics such as flexible displays acquired Cynoa GmbH for a deal of $300 million.Through this acquisition, Samsung aims to strengthen its product portfolio in flexible display and foldable electronics.

The countries covered in the flexible display market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA.

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