As seen in the CES event this year, Samsung showed off some fascinating AMOLEDs that includes a 4.5-inch flexible and a 19-inch transparent display. However, the sad news is that none of these two will be penetrating the market soon. And as the days go by, innovation seems to continue rolling and as a proof of this, Sammy Advanced Institute of Technology has just come out with prototype foldable display, which may or may not be the same reference design that was showed off at the FPD 2008. Apparently, this design seems to address the problem of finding a way to minimize the size of the device while maximizing the size of its display.
Getting the best of both worlds seems to be impossible, but Sammy Advanced Institute of Technology has managed to do it through foldable display that fold into half without a visible crease in the middle. In addition to this, it also comes with two panels that have a closing radius of only 1 mm. Basically, a foldable display can be very useful in a wide variety of small devices that include mobile games, cellular phones, tablet PCs as well as notebook PCs as well.
In order to test its junction, its developers performed around 100,000 folding and unfolding cycles that resulted to the conclusion that the relative brightness at the junction decreased by 6 percent. This difference is hardly recognized by the human eye thus, considering this deterioration to be negligible. As its researchers have revealed, one of the keys in making a display such as this involved controlling the optical properties of the materials. Apparently, all the materials in this foldable window unit must have the same optical properties and attach to each other strongly without any optical property change.
Researchers have also some plan of bringing this unique design in fabricating large-size flexible designs in the future. However, if we are referring to real commercialization, new materials and processes must be developed and this may take around 1 to 2 years more. This is really something that we should look forward to and let us just hope that Samsung could make use of this foldable AMOLED display soon.
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