LG is one of the companies that seem to take the flexible display market seriously. After launching the LG G Flex, it now has a bigger and bolder venture in creating a large OLED panel that's so flexible it can be rolled inside a tube with the diameter of 3 cm. The 18-inch prototype boasts of a 1200 x 810 resolution and features a polyamide film on the rear panel which gives it an impressive level of flexibility.
Perhaps the most amazing feature is how the panel can continue functioning even as it is being folded. If this concept becomes widely available, consumers will find it easy to "transport" their source of visual media from one place to another. It is also space-saving since the panel is incredibly thinner than the regular panels.
While there are those who can be skeptical of the panel's picture quality, LG also took note of the panel display's capacity to produce a better picture. Built with a transparent and organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) material, it has tripled the percentage of transmittance among similar displays that are already existing. The result is delivering a better, clearer, and less hazy picture.
The new OLED display is packed with 1 million megapixels and a PPI of around 80. It has a curvature radius of 30R.
Though watching TV using this type of display is still unimaginable, there is no denying the fact that it is quite a notable achievement. LG is confident to predict that in the near future, at least by 2017, it will be able to produce displays as large or even larger than 60 inches with ultra HD resolution and 40% transmittance rate on transparent models.
"LG Display pioneered the OLED TV market and is now leading the next-generation applied OLED technology," said In-Byung Kang, LG Display's Senior VP and Head of the R&D Center. "We are confident that by 2017, we will successfully develop an Ultra HD flexible and transparent OLED panel of more than 60 inches, which will have transmittance of more than 40 percent and a curvature radius of 100R, thereby leading the future display market."
LG's investment in the OLED technology began last year when it announced its investment plans worth $655 million involving a South Korean manufacturing company. The company understands very well that in a world of varying display sizes, picture quality should never be compromised. If it can combine both quality and flexibility in a display, this can pave the way for more innovative means to enjoy the world of media.
