Displays develop a new flexibility

Flexible displays are of great interest especially for mobile applications. Currently, there are no active-matrix flexible displays on the market, even though research has been carried out continuously over several years. Here, we introduce flexible displays and the prototype devices that have been developed. Organic thin-film transistors have been fabricated on plastic substrates for display backplanes. We describe the performance of our transistors made using a self-organization process. Finally, a set of research goals are outlined.