Over the past few years, many companies have often demonstrated flexible displays at various exhibitions electronics. Many positively marked flexible YOUM-screen by Samsung, which was introduced in 2013. With regard to the introduction of flexible displays in mobile devices, last year Samsung released Galaxy Round , and LG responded with the release of G Flex with a curved display. Both Korean manufacturer later admitted that the production costs of these smartphones is expensive, affecting their value. Company Kateeva, in turn, announced a technology to produce more durable flexible displays at lower costs.
According to the source, the company has developed an innovative Kateeva printing process, in which the protective layer is deposited and there encapsulation OLED-particles flexible display. This coating protects the organic diodes of oxygen and water. It is due to the fact that Samsung has not been able to achieve this encapsulation process in the production of smartphones with flexible displays still are not available in large quantities. Recall that all the same, according to rumors, Samsung may release Galaxy Note Edge - version of the Galaxy Note 4 flexible YOUM-display.
"Just a few molecules of oxygen or water can destroy the display.'s Why is so important to the process of encapsulating OLED-displays," - says Greg Rope, an expert on displays at Arizona State University.
Now, manufacturers have to solve another problem - creating transparent ITO-electrodes (indium tin oxide) which are used in the touch screen. These electrodes are tiny and transparent, which makes them extremely fragile. Canatu Company proposes instead indium tin oxide using carbon nanotubes which have a better conductivity and withstand stretching as well as flexion and extension.
If the major manufacturers will adopt these technologies, then very soon the use of flexible displays will become more popular.