OLED display is an organic display that can show a very wide range of colors, and is very flexible to use in a variety of configurations and situations.
Recently, the molecular engineering department at the University of Chicago has developed an OLED display that can be stretched and folded without problems. In fact, this display is seen to be able to operate under pressure when stretched or folded, and no defects are shown when it is treated this way.
This project is led by Sihong Wang, assistant professor in the molecular engineering department and said that this new OLED display is developed using stretchable polymers and can be used in a variety of applications including foldable computers, connectable devices and even health equipment.
OLED displays typically use panels that are tense and rigid because the fluorescent molecules used to activate the lighting function are not so easy to stay active in a flexible space. Sihong Wang hopes that the use of polymers developed by his team will be successfully commercialized, and facilitate the use of OLED displays in more applications.
Initial tests of this OLED panel showed that it was still operating normally despite being stretched to twice its original size.
Samsung has previously shown their stretchable OLED displays used in a number of different applications, but this is also the first time we can see that an OLED display can be stretched to twice its original size.