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Flexible Displays: Attributes, Technologies Compatible with Flexible Substrates and Applications

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Handbook of Visual Display Technology

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Flexible displays are an exciting development because of their physical and performance attributes and their capability to enable new products requiring displays with unique form factors that the current rigid glass substrate based displays cannot support. Flexible displays can be very thin, light weight, have unique form factors and be highly rugged and not prone to breakage on impact unlike rigid and flat glass substrate based displays. The flexible form factors such as having an arbitrary shape, ability to be curved, conformal, bendable, and rollable can enable a variety of new applications and products. In this chapter, we will discuss the various attributes of the flexible displays, their potential applications, and the display media appropriate for flexible displays.

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Abbreviations

AM EPD:

Active Matrix Electrophoretic Display

AM LCD:

Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display

AM OLED:

Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Display

EPD:

Electrophoretic Display

LCD:

Liquid Crystal Display

MEMS:

Micro-electromechanical Systems

OLED:

Organic Light Emitting Diode

OTFT:

Organic Thin Film Transistor

RTR:

Roll-to-Roll

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  1. Honeywell, 21111 N. 19th Av., Phoenix, AZ, USA

    Kalluri R. Sarma (Senior Research Fellow)

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  1. Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Janglin Chen

  2. Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK

    Wayne Cranton

  3. Veritas et Visus, Texas, USA

    Mark Fihn

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Sarma, K.R. (2012). Flexible Displays: Attributes, Technologies Compatible with Flexible Substrates and Applications. In: Chen, J., Cranton, W., Fihn, M. (eds) Handbook of Visual Display Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79567-4_61

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