LG Display Reveals New, Super Flexible Screen that Can Roll Away

Can you imagine watching a movie on a flexible screen that you could roll away once you're done with it? LG Display, the world's leading innovator of display technologies, may have managed to create a new screen that's capable of doing just that. They've unveiled a 18-inch flexible OLED panel that is rollable as well as a 18-inch transparent OLED panel.

The new, rollable display is created with high molecular substance-based polyimide film. This allows the screen to manage to flex into a roll and also helps reduce its thickness.

This screen may be flexible, but can it still show a clear picture? The flexible OLED panel has a high-definition class resolution of 1200x810 with almost one million megapixels. The panel can be rolled up to a radius of a mere 3 cm without affecting the function of the display. In fact, this shows that LG Display can bring rollable TVs of more than 50 inches to the market in the future.

When it comes to the transparent OLED panel, though, it boasts 30 percent transmittance. In addition, LG Display has managed to lower the haze of the panel to a level of just two percent.

"LG Display pioneered the OLED TV market and is now leading the next-generation applied OLED technology," said In-Byung Kang, Senior Vice President and Head of the R&D Center at LG Display, in a news release. "We are confident that by 2017, we will successfully develop an Ultra HD flexible and transparent OLED panel of more than 60 inches, which will have transmittance of more than 40 percent and a curvature radius of 100R, thereby leading the future display market."