Flexible OLED display development: Strategy and status

Journal of the Society for Information Display

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 481-486

  Chwang, Anna B ^a   Hack, Michael ^a   Brown, Julie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrier; Flexible display; OLED; Organic light emitting; Plastic; Steel foil; Thin film encapsulation; Top emission

Indexed keywords

BARRIER; FLEXIBLE DISPLAY; OLED; ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING; STEEL FOILS; THIN-FILM ENCAPSULATION; TOP EMISSION;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; METAL FOIL; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORESCENCE; POLYSILICON; STEEL; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; THIN FILMS; WATER;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 22944439442     PISSN: 10710922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1889/1.1973992     Document Type: Article

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