University from the United States military access to flexible display 50 million U.S. dollars in research funding
Time the United States Arizona State University January 29, 2009 announced that with the U.S. Army to the University signed a research project on flexible displays Flexible Display Center an additional 50 million U.S. dollars aid contract. Contract is valid for 5 years. The two sides in 2004 signed a similar contract, up to this point, the U.S. Army to provide assistance funds have been accumulated to reach 100 million U.S. dollars.
Flexible Display Center is to study the flexible full-color flexible display technology institutions. After 5 years of research have been successfully developed to produce 6-inch wafer or screen size of 370 × 470mm display pilot production line and tools. Required to achieve commercial levels of display materials and manufacturing process development has also made progress.
In addition to the U.S. Army, the Arizona State University with the United States Hewlett-Packard (HP), the United States BAE Systems, Boeing USA, South Korea LG displays, the United States E Ink, the United States, Applied Materials (Applied Materials), Timor and the United States a joint venture between DuPont DuPont Teijin Films, American Honeywell (Honeywell), the United States Universal Display Technology (Universal Display), and Kent Displays, such as the United States signed the contract. In addition to participation in the establishment of industry bodies FlexTech Alliance, but also with the University of Texas University and the Caspian Sea to carry out joint research.
Flexible Display Center cited the United States iSuppli's survey, in 2007 flexible display market size of 80 million U.S. dollars, is expected to scale in 2013 will be expanded to 2.8 billion U.S. dollars.