Plastic Logic is developing licensable manufacturing solutions for printing thin and flexible active-matrix displays. When combined with an electronic-paper imaging film, Plastic Logic's backplane technology enables highly portable, readable and power efficient displays. The initial application focus is e-readers (e.g. e-books, e-dictionaries, e-maps, e-newspapers). These displays will often be wirelessly connected to WAN devices such mobile phones and PDAs, allowing users to access content 'on-the-move' more comfortably and efficiently than is possible using a small integrated display.

This is the first step towards flexible and plastic backplanes for a range of display applications and frontplane technologies including LCD and OLED.

Flexible e-Reader Features

• High resolution: up to 150ppi (pixels per inch)
• Large area: scaleable to A4 (210mm by 297mm) and above
• Greyscale: 4 levels
• Very high aperture ratio / fill factor
• Bend radius: < 2cm radius of curvature
• Thin, robust and lightweight
• Bistable e-paper enables high contrast reflective display (sun-light readable) and ultra-low power consumption.

Plastic Logic's approach to manufacturing display backplanes is fundamentally scaleable for large area, high volume and low cost.

Driven by lead customer projects, Plastic Logic has undertaken a major investment in order to establish a 350mm by 350mm prototype line targeted at the flexible e-reader class of display applications. This programme will enable Plastic Logic to produce A4 150ppi backplanes during 2007. Longer term research to support our roadmap towards higher performance e-reader and TV applications is also underway.

Flexible Active Matrix Displays Explained

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