Plastic Logic and Novaled Partner to Demonstrate a World First for Displays and Open a New Frontier in Consumer Electronics

Plastic Logic and Novaled Partner toPlastic Logic and Novaled Partner to Demonstrate a World First for Displays and Open a New Frontier in Consumer Electronics PR Newswire CAMBRIDGE, England and DRESDEN, Germany, February 6, 2014 Plastic Logic, the leader in the development and industrialisation of flexible organic electronics, and Novaled, a leading company in organic electronic materials and technology for OLED applications, announce a partnership which will transform and accelerate the market for flexible and wearable displays. The companies demonstrate today at the Flextech Conference in Phoenix, AZ a truly flexible, plastic, fully organic AMOLED display. This will be the first of a series of technology demonstrators during 2014, which will be part of each company's development of partnerships to enable the market for truly flexible, unbreakable AMOLED displays - a market segment forecast to be worth over $ 1 0 b by 2020 (IHS 2013 report). The dream of wearable display technology is existing for a long time now. Making this real has needed the correct set of electronics capabilities to enable compelling and practical solutions for lifestyle, communications and fitness applications. The demonstrator heralds a breakthrough by combining for the first time a functional all-plastic AMOLED display with an industrialised turnkey manufacturing process for the backplane electronics.