TDK Corp showed flexible and see-through passive matrix OLED panels at Ceatec Japan 2010 from Oct 5 to 9, 2010.
According to TDK, the flexible OLED panel is as thin as 0.3mm or less. The weights of the color-display and monochrome-display models are 1.11g and 0.96g, respectively.
Besides, the display is not affected even if the panel is bent to a curvature radius of up to 25mm. The flexible type is targeted at mobile devices including mobile phones.
The flexible panel has a screen size of 3.5 inches and a pixel count of 256 x 64.
The flexible OLED panel was prototyped at Kita Ibaraki Plant, which has production lines for OLED panels using a glass substrate. TDK plans to start volume production of the panel at the end of 2011.
On the other hand, the transmittance of the see-through OLED panel is 50% or higher.
It has a screen size of 2 inches and a pixel count of 320 x 240 (QVGA). Its resolution was enhanced by employing a driver chip developed by Dialog Semiconductor Plc of Germany. And it has a top-emission structure.
TDK pointed out that they would mass-produce the panel as soon as device makers asked.