A scalable manufacturing process for flexible active‐matrix e‐paper displays
Seamus E. Burns, Kevin Reynolds, William H Reeves, Michael J. Banach, Thomas M. Brown, Kevin Chalmers, N. Cousins, Mark Etchells, C. Hayton, K. Jacobs, Anoop Menon, Sabahuddin Siddique, P. Too, Catherine M. Ramsdale, J. Watts, Paul A. Cain, Tim von Werne, J. D. Mills, C. J. Curling, Henning Sirringhaus · Journal of the Society for Information Display · 2005
Abstract— A scalable manufacturing process for fabricating active‐matrix backplanes on low‐cost flexible substrates, a key enabler for electronic‐paper displays, is presented. This process is based on solution processing, ink‐jet printing, and laser patterning. A multilayer architecture is employed to enable high aperture ratio and array performance. These backplanes were combined with E Ink electrophoretic media to create high‐performance displays that have high contrast, are bistable, and can be flexed repeatedly to a radius of curvature of 5 mm.