Flexible OLED Displays
• Technology, Challenges & Opportunities
• Your Name · Date · Affiliation
Agenda / Outline
• - Introduction: What is a flexible OLED?
• - OLED Basics & Structure
• - Comparison: OLED vs LCD
• - What makes OLED flexible?
• - Key Challenges
• - Materials & Process
• - Cost & Lifespan
• - Manufacturing
• - Applications
Introduction
• - OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode)
technology evolution: CRT → LCD → OLED →
Flexible display
• - Flexible displays allow bending, folding,
rolling
• - Applications: wearable, foldable, and rollable
electronics
OLED Basics & Structure
• - Layers: substrate, anode, organic layers,
cathode, encapsulation
• - Mechanism: Electroluminescence from
organic emissive layer
• - Benefits: high contrast, wide angle, self-
emissive
OLED vs LCD
• - OLED: no backlight, flexible, faster response,
thinner
• - LCD: requires backlight, rigid, slower
• - OLED offers superior contrast and design
freedom
What is Flexible OLED?
• - Built on flexible substrates (plastic, thin glass)
• - Enables bending, folding, and rolling
• - Requires new electrode and encapsulation
materials
Challenges
• - Bending strain reduces efficiency
• - Moisture and oxygen sensitivity
• - High material and fabrication cost
• - Uniformity issues over large area
Materials & Processes
• - Substrates: PI, PEN, thin glass
• - Electrodes: graphene, metal nanowires,
conductive polymers
• - Encapsulation: thin film barriers
• - Techniques: roll-to-roll, inkjet printing
Cost & Lifespan
• - Cost driven by substrate and barrier films
• - Lifetime limited by organic degradation and
moisture ingress
• - Improvement via encapsulation and stable
organics
Manufacturing
• - Roll-to-roll processing enables continuous
production
• - Reduces cost, increases scalability
• - Challenges: maintaining alignment,
minimizing defects
Applications
• - Smartphones (foldable), wearables, tablets
• - Automotive dashboards and lighting
• - Medical and flexible lighting panels
• - Transparent and conformable signage
Case Studies
• - Samsung YOUM prototypes
• - LG rollable OLED TVs
• - Emerging research: stretchable and
transparent OLEDs
Conclusion
• - Flexible OLEDs merge display innovation with
mechanical flexibility
• - Key challenges: durability, cost, yield
• - Future: ubiquitous flexible and wearable
displays
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  • 1.
    Flexible OLED Displays •Technology, Challenges & Opportunities • Your Name · Date · Affiliation
  • 2.
    Agenda / Outline •- Introduction: What is a flexible OLED? • - OLED Basics & Structure • - Comparison: OLED vs LCD • - What makes OLED flexible? • - Key Challenges • - Materials & Process • - Cost & Lifespan • - Manufacturing • - Applications
  • 3.
    Introduction • - OLED(Organic Light Emitting Diode) technology evolution: CRT → LCD → OLED → Flexible display • - Flexible displays allow bending, folding, rolling • - Applications: wearable, foldable, and rollable electronics
  • 4.
    OLED Basics &Structure • - Layers: substrate, anode, organic layers, cathode, encapsulation • - Mechanism: Electroluminescence from organic emissive layer • - Benefits: high contrast, wide angle, self- emissive
  • 5.
    OLED vs LCD •- OLED: no backlight, flexible, faster response, thinner • - LCD: requires backlight, rigid, slower • - OLED offers superior contrast and design freedom
  • 6.
    What is FlexibleOLED? • - Built on flexible substrates (plastic, thin glass) • - Enables bending, folding, and rolling • - Requires new electrode and encapsulation materials
  • 7.
    Challenges • - Bendingstrain reduces efficiency • - Moisture and oxygen sensitivity • - High material and fabrication cost • - Uniformity issues over large area
  • 8.
    Materials & Processes •- Substrates: PI, PEN, thin glass • - Electrodes: graphene, metal nanowires, conductive polymers • - Encapsulation: thin film barriers • - Techniques: roll-to-roll, inkjet printing
  • 9.
    Cost & Lifespan •- Cost driven by substrate and barrier films • - Lifetime limited by organic degradation and moisture ingress • - Improvement via encapsulation and stable organics
  • 10.
    Manufacturing • - Roll-to-rollprocessing enables continuous production • - Reduces cost, increases scalability • - Challenges: maintaining alignment, minimizing defects
  • 11.
    Applications • - Smartphones(foldable), wearables, tablets • - Automotive dashboards and lighting • - Medical and flexible lighting panels • - Transparent and conformable signage
  • 12.
    Case Studies • -Samsung YOUM prototypes • - LG rollable OLED TVs • - Emerging research: stretchable and transparent OLEDs
  • 13.
    Conclusion • - FlexibleOLEDs merge display innovation with mechanical flexibility • - Key challenges: durability, cost, yield • - Future: ubiquitous flexible and wearable displays
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