Very flexible 19-inch e-paper prototype LG-made
19th January, 2010 by adina
Tags: ePaper, Gadget, LG, News
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LG Display announced in Seoul the development of a very flexible 19-inch e-paper display. Although it cannot be totally folded, the 0.01-inch (about 0.3mm) thick monochrome display has a TFT array as well as a thin metal foil that makes possible the recovering of its original shape. The e-paper display has 9.8×15.7 inches and is provided with the same technology as the 11.5-inch Skiff reader, the screen of he latter also being manufactured by the Korean company.
To allow the display to be flexible, LG used gate-in-panel technology, which integrates driver ICs onto the panel, instead of having them on the side of the panel. The weight of the panel is less than 4.6 ounces, but LG does not provide information on how content is stored or transferred. There also is no indication of any device such as a built-in application processor, a memory card reader or a radio chipset.
Whether or not LG Display will commercialize the 19-inch e-paper display in its current form is also information that is missing.
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It is a half-fabricate of a display not a actual device. LG is showing off their capability of developing and manufacturing these displays. To form a device like a e-reader it will need extra hardware, a battery for instance.