Samsung develops a flexible seven-inch diagonal thin-film transistor LCD

Samsung develops a flexible seven-inch diagonal thin-film transistor LCD

South Korean tech giants Samsung has announced that they have developed a flexible seven-inch diagonal thin-film transistor LCD. They are making use of a plastic substrate to display 640 by 480 pixel resolution television video pictures. This plastic substrate is thinner, lighter and more durable than conventional LCD glass panels.

In addition, this LCD screen would maintain a constant thickness even when it is bent. Samsung plans to use this screen in notebook computers and cell phones. They claim that the panel can even be used in clothes for wearable advertising panels.

Samsung also revealed that they had to overcome several problems with processing to make the plastic substrate practical. The company also 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.