Original URL: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/10/29/samsung_flapping_oled/
Samsung demos 0.05mm-thick OLED panel
Skinnier gadgets on the way
29th October 2008 15:10 GMT
Clearly unphased by the courtroom kicking (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/10/29/pioneer_beats_samsung/) its taken from Pioneer, Samsung's display division has demo'd a bendy OLED display.
Samsung's flapping OLED
Image courtesy Nikkei
The 0.05mm-thick screen sheet has a diagonal size of four inches, a resolution of 480 x 272 and a 100,000:1 contrast ratio. Its brightness is rated at 200cd/m², Japan's Nikkei reports (http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20081029/160349/).
That width is a fraction of the 0.3mm thickness Sony recently hailed for its first flexible OLED (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/30/sony_curved_oled/) panel.
What it lacks is the glass substrate all other OLED panels use for stability. Instead of sealing the panel to the glass, Samsung removed it and used a membrane seal instead.
What Samsung didn't say is how easily its boffins can transform the process used to produce the prototype into one that can be implemented commercially.