Flexible  Displays


Flexible displays use plastic film as a substrate, unlike other flat panel displays using glass substrates.

Rollable

Bendable

Thin & Light


Reflective Color Display Samples

Ch-LCD / Polymer Wall
Ch-LCD / Encapsulation

NDIS's Color E-paper Core Technology

Commercialization of cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) suitable for reflection type, ultra low power consumption, lightweight and thin electronic paper


Technical highlights

  • Simplification of process for innovative reduction of manufacturing cost: printing method, room temperature / pressure process, use of plastic substrate
  • Resolve impact instability, which is a fatal disadvantage of Plastic LCD
  • Color rendering technology capable of excellent color reproduction and process simplification


Process simplification - High Throughput

  • Process under normal temperature and normal pressure
  • Formation of liquid crystal layer by coating and lamination
  • UV irradiation using photo-mask to create barrier ribs and color conversion


Ensure shock stability - Filming of the liquid crystal layer

  • Formation technology for polymer partition
     Impact prevention by blocking liquid crystal in polymer walls(substantial partition)


  • Liquid crystal encapsulation technology
    Dispersion and curing of liquid crystal capsules in Binder material

[Reference] Process simplification

Compared to other electronic paper technologies, NDIS's CLC technology is a significantly simpler process. Lower manufacturing cost and Easy to enlarge size.


Simple printing type CLC manufacturing process

  • Simple process
    - Coating, Lamination, UV exposure
    - Process at room temperature and atmospheric pressure
  • Easy to maximize
  • Low manufacturing process cost
  • Easy to use plastic substrate
  • Suitable for high productivity by roll-to-roll process


[Reference] High-efficiency color implementation technology

Single material use for R, G, B coor implementation

  • Photo-reactive chiral dopant added to liquid crystal
    - Change in chiral pitch according to UV dose → Color change
    - In-house material development
  • Form a single liquid crystal layer with a single material, then from R, G, B color for each pixel by mask UV irradiation
  • Innovative simple process enables full color without color filter


High reflectance CLC

  • Full-color implementation with R, G, B panel lamination
    -  High reflectivity color implementation
    -  Other displays can not be laminated in principle
  •   No problem when using thin plastic substrate
  •   Improvement of color reproduction rate by controlling alignment of cholesteric liquid crystal (CG> 20%)


Acquired "New technology certification"

In 2011, NDIS won the New technology certification in Korea Institute of Technology and Standards. New technology certification is a system that evaluates the quality, performance and manufacturing process of the first developed technology or product in Korea and gives a New Technology mark (NT) to new technology or product for superior technology and products.


NDIS's Flexible [nematic] LCD technology

Plastic LCD (TN, IPS, VA mode) using polymer partition technology

Electro-optic characteristics equivalent to conventional LCD while ensuring shock stability

Applications include plastic TFT-LCD, PM-LCD and multi-functional optical film

Excellent electro-optic characteristics equivalent to those of Glass LCD

  • Low driving voltage (≤ 6V)
  •  High Contrast (≥ 300: 1)


Cell gap stabilization by Polymer Wall

   


Printable manufacturing process

  • Formation of liquid crystal layer at normal pressure and room temperature
  • Easy roll-to-roll process and Easy to maximize
  • Material formulation technology

Applications

  • Plastic TFT-LCD
  • Card displays
  • Active Barrier & Retarder for glassesless 3D display
  • Others