LG Display Unveils Flexible HD Screen You Can Roll Up

LG has unveiled a working 18-inch high definition screen that you can roll up and take away with you.

LG today showed off the 18inch version - and says a 60-inch screen could go on sale in 2017, writes The Daily Mail.

The Ultra HD screen uses a special film instead of plastic as backing to allow screen to be rolled into a tight tube for transport.

The panel can be rolled up to a radius of 3cm without affecting the function of the display. 

The LG Display proves that the company can bring rollable TVs of more than 50 inches to the market in the future, the firm said.

'LG Display pioneered the OLED TV market and is now leading the next-generation applied OLED technology,' In-Byung Kang, Senior Vice President and Head of the R&D Center at LG Display, said in a statement.

'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 Display used high molecular substance-based polyimide film as the backplane of the flexible panel over conventional plastic to achieve the maximum curvature radius, writes The Daily Mail.

The polyimide film also acts to reduce the thickness of the panel to significantly improve its flexibility.

The transparent OLED panel boasts 30 percent transmittance, which was achieved by adopting the company's transparent pixel design technology.  

LG Display has also successfully lowered haziness of the panel, generated using circuit devices and film components to a level of 2 percent.  

This breakthrough development has allowed the company to improve greatly the technology level of the transparent display.  

Considering that the transmittance of existing transparent LCD panels is around 10 percent, this new panel offers significantly improved transmittance, writes The Daily Mail.

Researchers from the University of Houston have developed an entirely new stretchable and transparent electrical conductor, bringing the potential for a fully foldable cell phone or a flat-screen television that can be folded and carried under your arm closer to reality, writes The Daily Mail.

The gold nanomesh electrodes produced by Ren and his research associates Chuanfei Guo and Tianyi Sun at UH, along with two colleagues at Harvard University, provide well-functioning electrical conductivity as well as transparency and flexibility, the researchers said in a paper published in the journal Nature Communications.