Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a new OLED technology that’s stretchable and bendable like rubber. Produced by spraying a layer of carbon nanotubes with a flouro-rubber compound, the resulting displays are thinner than LCD and plasma and consume very little power.
“In the future, displays that once had to be flat can be made spherical, or even moving,” says Takao Someya, professor of electronic engineering at the University of Tokyo. “A human-shaped display could be used to show medical diagnosis data, and there are various other applications.”
Their demonstration prototype is 100cm^2 (10 x 10), and contains 256 monochrome pixels (16×16 grid). Some sites reporting this, like Slashgear, are incorrectly claiming 10square centimeters (I guess they can’t multiply). This means each pixel of display is slightly larger than a half-centimeter on a side (0.625cm), or roughly the size of a large stereo headset plug. Of course, the researchers are working on making them smaller, which would be required for anything terribly useful.
Researchers develop EL display that can stretch like rubber – The Mainichi Daily News.
