Polysilicon TFT technology on flexible metal foil for AMPLED displays

Journal of the Society for Information Display

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 455-461

  Chuang, Ta Ko ^a   Troccoli, Matias ^a   Hatalis, Miltiadis ^a   Voutsas, Apostolos T ^b  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b SHARP LABORATORIES OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

AMOLED; Flexible display; Metal foil; Polysilicon TFT; Top emitting

Indexed keywords

AMOLED; DIAGONAL SIZES; DISPLAY APPLICATIONS; FLEXIBLE; FLEXIBLE DISPLAY; MATRIX ARRAYS; MATRIX POLYMERS; ORGANIC; ORGANIC LIGHTEMITTING POLYMERS; POLYSILICON TFT; PROCESS TEMPERATURES;

ABS RESINS; DIODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); ORGANIC POLYMERS; POLYMERS; POLYSILICON; STAINLESS STEEL; SUBSTRATES;

METAL FOIL;

EID: 54249096143     PISSN: 10710922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1889/1.2759550     Document Type: Article

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