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Two cool flexible products make some noise, but only one is actually being manufactured |
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May 30, 2007 at 11:40 AM |
Two separate announcements from the emerging flexible, printed, and organic (FPO) electronics sector hit the wires over the past week or so.
Nanoident struck first, with its news of what they purport to be the world's largest (at 18 x 12 cm) semiconductor-based photodetector array made on flexible PET foil. Then, at the Society for Information Display (SID) show last week, Sony brought out a prototype of a 2.5-in. flexible OLED/TFT display. (See photos below of both--also check YouTube for some video and news spots, in both Japanese and English, about the Sony display.)
Sure, they're not that similar other than being made on ultrathin flexible substrates: One's a sheet of sensors and the other's a bendy display, but both bring a bit more respectability---and "coolness"---to the FPO space. There is one other key difference between the two: Nanoident is already manufacturing its arrays in its fab for an industrial customer, while Sony has yet to announce a fabrication plan for its gizmo.
At the end of the day, the proof, as they say, is in the production pudding.
This one is in the fab. (Photo courtesy: Nanoident)
This one is not in the fab...yet. (Photo courtesy: Sony)
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