LG Philips flexible OLED

LG Philips has recently applied for a patent on a bendable OLED screen technology which would use oil and water to produce images. Current flexible OLED displays are hampered by the fact that the OLEDs get hotter than the plastic substrate, making it difficult and expensive for manufacture.








The new process that the company is developing would circumvent those problems by making pixels out of oil and water connected to plastic electrodes. The opaque oil would float on the water and obscure a colored surface beneath. When an electric charge is applied to the field it would reveal the surface and change the color of the pixel. This process is believed to be cheap and simple and hopefully means a future of reading a completely digital morning paper for all of us.