Samsung Electronics Develops Largest Flexible LCD Panel

뉴스 제공

삼성전자 코스피 005930

2005-11-28 11:02

Seoul--(뉴스와이어)--Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., announced today that it has developed the world’s largest transmissive TFT LCD (thin-film transistor, liquid crystal display), with sufficiently high resolution to display digital television content.

The seven-inch, 640x480 (VGA-standard) flexible display uses a transparent plastic substrate that is thinner, lighter and more durable than the conventional LCD glass panels used today. Moreover, the full-color transmissive LCD panel maintains a constant thickness even when it is bent.

Considered the next-generation in flat panel displays, this technology involves the use of pliable plastic instead of rigid glass substrates in TFT-LCD production. The plastic will not break when flexed, allowing much greater freedom in commercial designs requiring flexible full-color, high-resolution display components.

The seven-inch flexible TFT-LCD is optimized for mobility applications, including cell phones and notebook computers.

System designers and OEMs also may apply the advanced Samsung display technology to new applications, such as fashion-enhancing or wearable electronic display designs, thanks to its differentiated flexible format.

The new display is double the size of Samsung’s five-inch flexible LCD display prototype announced in January 2005.

With this advancement, Samsung has overcome daunting problems involving the plastic substrate’s heat sensitivity including a previous challenge to maintain the display’s substrate thickness when subjected to typical commercial thermal conditions. Samsung developed an low-temperature processing technique that can be used to manufacture the display’s amorphous thin-film transistors, color filters and liquid crystals at process temperatures much lower than standard glass-based, amorphous silicon (a-Si )technology.

Drawing on technology adopted for the production of low-temperature (less than 130 degrees Celsius) a-Si TFT LCD and color filter, Samsung’s proprietary LCD technology minimizes substrate deformation by preventing not only changes in thickness but also distortion of images by binding two extremely-thin panels together through a new proprietary system design.

The latest flexible LCD panel was developed under a three-year program funded by Samsung Electronics’ next-generation display development group under the auspices of the Korean Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy, supported by Samsung’s Corporate Research Fund.

삼성전자 개요
삼성전자는 반도체, 통신, 디지털 미디어와 디지털 컨버전스 기술을 보유한 글로벌 리더다. 삼성전자는 디지털 어플라이언스 부문, 디지털 미디어 부문, LCD 부문, 반도체 부문, 통신 네트워크 부문 등 5개 부문으로 이뤄져 있다. 세계에서 가장 빠르게 성장하는 브랜드인 삼성전자는 스마트폰, 디지털 TV, 메모리 반도체, OLED, TFT-LCD 분야에서 세계 선두 주자다.

웹사이트: http://www.samsung.com/sec