Flexible Displays

OLED is a new display technology, which uses light emitting organic material to create beautiful and efficient displays. These are very thin and can be put on flexible materials like plastic or metal creating the ability to make flexible and bendable displays. This will also enable the displays to be more durable than current displays that require glass thus making them virtually shatterproof. 

Flexible OLED displays could be making their way to our gadgets sooner rather than later as Samsung has seen huge orders for the bendy screens. OLEDs will replace LCD’s as the main mobile display from around 2015 as the screens are thinner and brighter. Samsung has massively invested in OLED-related technologies and will continue to do so. 



There are several companies working towards the commercialising of flexible displays. This is a technology that is starting to come out of the lab. We can classify future display products into two categories:

- Bendable displays such as e-books, e-paper, bendable GPS, curved mobile products.
- Rollable displays such as rollable e-paper, rollerable PC, billboard, roll-up TV.

Thus future converging technology enables us to use flexible displays anywhere, anytime with multimedia functions.