Flexible Display Technology – Opportunity and Challenges to New Business Application

Flexible displays have attracted much attention because they will be the key to open the next generation display market in the ubiquitous era. Many progressive prototypes of the flexible e-papers and the flexible AMOLEDs enable to have expectation that the early product of the flexible display will come into the market in the near future. In addition, it is expected that the remarkable development of the printing technologies and the organic electronics can realize the rollable, extremely low price, and even disposable displays. In this paper, the prospect of the flexible display, the technical issues, and the R&D status are briefly reviewed.