LG.Philips LCD has announced the development of the first full-color, flexible, active matrix, organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) display that uses amorphous silicon (a-Si) technology. It was developed in cooperation with Universal Display Corporation of the U. S. which holds the original patents for Phosphorescent OLED (PHOLED) technology.

The AMOLED QVGA (320 x 240) resolution display can reproduce 16.77 million colors. The stunning feature of the display is its ultra thin, just thicker than a human hair, 150 μm. The display has a stainless steel foil substrate to ensure durability and provide heat insulation.

“This display capitalizes on the strengths of OLED technology and its image quality is really something to behold,” said Hyunhe Ha, executive vice president and the head of the Small & Medium Displays Business Unit at LG.Philips LCD. “Although we are still in the initial stages with this technology, we expect to make some exciting advances in the near future.”

LG.Philips LCD have made the best use of OLED technology to develop a flexible, durable and reliable display for delivering full-color and high-resolution images. Significantly, from time-to-market and production set-up cost points of view, the use of a-Si backplane technology allows LG.Philips LCD to use its existing TFT-LCD production line.

The full-color flexible AMOLED display will be unveiled by LG.Philips LCD at SID 2007 in Long Beach, California, on May 20.

This announcement by LG.Philips follows on the heels of their recent announcement of an A4 size,color, flexible e-paper display.