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FlexEnable Low Cost Flexible Displays and Sensors:
Activating Surfaces for Wearables and Everywhere-ables
Paul Cain, Strategy Director, FlexEnable
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FlexEnable’s process toolkit
• The most significant new transistor and flexible electronics platform in decades- based on high performance Organic Thin Film Transistor (OTFT)
• Enables true flexibility, bendability and unbreakability, for displays, sensors & entire electronics systems on plastic
• Fully industrialised and suitable for all high volume display (LCD,OLED,EPD) & sensor technologies
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……launching a spectacular future for flexible electronics
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OTFT enables ultra-thin, truly flexible electronics
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0.25mm Transistor Bend Radius
Wraps around a matchstick
25µm Substrate Thickness
As thin as a human hair
100gsm Weight per area
As light as a sheet of paper
60 Hz OLED/LCD Flexible full motion video
Low Cost Lowest cost for all areas
and surfaces
Shatterproof
Rugged displays and sensors
• The lowest cost transistor technology for flexible displays and sensors
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Flexing in Action
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The OTFT performance revolution – now means that:
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Fast TFTs to meet customer demands
Mobility > 2
Stability to enable long lasting products
Current stability ΔVth < 0.3V
1µA for 3hr
Uniformity to enable high manufacturing yield
Flexibility to enable exciting new form factors
Current Variation < 5% Bend radius < 0.25mm
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Breakthrough OLCD on ultra low cost substrates
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In partnership with
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Flexible Colour OLED in partnership CPT
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Enabling truly revolutionary form factors
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Flexible Displays for Wearables and Everywhere-ables
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Enabling New markets and transforming exisiting markets
Unbreakable Mobile Devices
Automotive and Aerospace Wearables Digital Signage
$23Bn Wearable Display Market 2023
(IHS)
$24 Billion 2020 (Markets&Markets)
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Glass-free Wearable and Everywhere-able Sensors
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Enabling New markets and transforming existing markets
Flexible, Unbreakable Xray Sensors Flexible, Wearable
Biometrics
Pressure Sensor Arrays for “Electronic Skin”
Printed Plastic OTFT array backplane
+ Printed Piezoelectric
Pressure sensor Pressure sensor array
Wearable Sensors Multi-functional Smartcards
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Building Flexible Supply Chains for Wearables
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• Enabling materials, product and manufacturing companies to accelerate their route to volume and facilitate new supply chains
• Enables rapid prototyping and evolution kits for flexible displays, sensors and new product concepts for wearables, IoT.
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Potential for 2D materials in flexible, printed electronics
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Layer Functional Requirements Benefits Flexible Substrate Improved barrier WVTR < 10-6 g/m2-day More flexible than ceramic alternatives
Interconnection lines
Sheet Resistance < 0.5 Ω/□ Replace metals for stretchable electronics
Semiconductor Field effect mobility > 30 cm2/(V·s); Needed for high frequency applications
Pixel electrode Transparency> 90%; Sheet Resistance < 100 Ω/□ Replace ITO
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Case study: Transitioning Graphene from LAB to FAB • Start with initial assessment on test chips • Scale-up to industrial process flows • Production of commercially relevant demos
World’s first Graphene display made by FlexEnable in collaboration with Cambridge Graphene Centre
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Graphene Projects at FlexEnable Highly conductive Ultraflexible Graphene
(HUG) The aim of the project is to replace the metal gate of the organic thin film transistor (OTFT) with graphene and integrate in an active matrix to drive an electrophoretic display with further potential integration in organic LCDs (OLCDs). • More flexible OTFT arrays
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250x
Contiguous Graphene Ultra-barrier Films for Printable Electronic Applications (GRAVIA)
The aim of this project is to increase the flexibility of barrier substrates by integrating graphene in the barrier stack. • Fabricate more flexible barrier substrates • Fabricate more flexible encapsulation
PEN
graphene
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Summary
• FlexEnable has developed a revolutionary and low cost, high performance platform for flexible electronics, using existing supply chains – all the ingredients are now there:
Partner with us to become part of the ecosystem for the flexible
electronics revolution
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Utility – What do you get with glass-free?
OTFT Low-Temperature
Process
Organic Semiconductor Solution Processing
Low-Temperature Process
FPD Compatible
Cost/Volume
Performance
ü Conformability ü Flexibility ü Thinness ü Light weight ü Unbreakable
ü Transistors - Better than a:Si
ü Uniformity ü Reliability
ü BOM ü Yield ü Existing Manufacturing
Infrastructure
