Technology
The company's plastic transistor technology is based on organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) that enables electronics to be manufactured on flexible or plastic sheets. It is currently used to make monochrome and colour flexible plastic displays of different sizes. These daylight readable displays are designed to be lightweight, thin and robust with low battery consumption. The company claims they have lifetimes of over five years and more than 10 million page updates. The technology can also be used for non-display applications.
In January 2013 the company won the the FlexTech Alliance's "FLEXI 2013 R&D Award" for innovation in flexible display manufacturing. This was in recognition for the development of a scalable manufacturing process for integrating a colour filter array on a flexible plastic display. Other companies recognised by the FlexTech Alliance included Corning, Inc. and American Semiconductor.
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