Samsung buys Liquavista, dives headfirst into electrowetting displays

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• Filed under: General
• Date: Jan 20,2011

Samsung’s got a reputation for building crazy awesome display technologies, and it just added another one to the stack — with the buyout of Philips-spinoff Liquavista this December, it’s gained quite the foothold in electrowetting.

In case you’re not familiar, electrowetting has been repeatedly pitched to us as pretty much the Holy Grail of displays: flexible, colorful, unbreakable, outdoor-readable e-paper screens with high refresh rates and low-power consumption that can be manufactured on existing assembly lines.

Update: Seems that The Digital Reader actually figured out about the deal yesterday — read the original scoop at our more coverage link!

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Flexible, stretchable, rubbery OLED prototype shown off in Tokyo

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• Filed under: Displays, Science
• Date: May 11,2009

Electrical engineering researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a flexible, stretchable OLED that acts something like rubber, and does not tear or break when stretched.

The material is produced by spraying a layer of carbon nanotubes with a fluoro-rubber compound, creating a rubbery, conducive material.

The current, monochrome display prototype has a resolution of just 256 pixels, is 10-centimeters square, and can apparently be folded about 1,000 times with out falling apart, tearing, or imploding. Read the rest of this entry »