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精彩导读：Displays made with E Ink's Imaging Film are ideally suited for flexible display applications due to their thin form factor and inherent flexibility.
E Ink's electronic ink is an image stable reflective display technology that uses ultra-low power but is easily read under any lighting condition including direct sunlight. Unlike liquid crystal displays, the image on E Ink displays looks the same from all viewing angles and will not distort when touched or flexed, making electronic ink the ideal display medium for flexible displays and portable devices.
E Ink currently offers all-plastic segmented cells that are flexible and comformable. These cells can be used in a range of applications from clocks and watches to electronic shelf displays and preprogrammed signage. While E Ink's display materials already enable fully flexible displays, flexible backplane technology for high-resolution, active matrix displays are in the development stage. Once these backplanes are widely available to display manufacturers we can expect to see the adoption of flexible displays in a number of applications requiring high resolution.
E Ink has been working on flexible displays for a number of years and has pioneered a number of 'world's firsts' in the display industry:
November, 2000 - Lucent and E Ink demonstrate first flexible electronic ink display with flexible transistors;
June, 2002 - E Ink unveils a 2mm thick flexible active-matrix display on steel foil transistor substrates;
  
January, 2004 - Polymer Vision develops an organics-based active matrix display with a bending radius of 2cm using E Ink's Imaging Film;
  
images courtesy of Polymer Vision
February, 2004 - In February 2004 Arizona State University received a $43.7 million federal grant award from the Army to begin developing a small portable information screen for U.S. soldiers to use on the battlefield. E Ink was one of a few companies selected to participate in this effort.
 
images courtesy of ASU
December, 2004 - Plastic Logic and E Ink collaborate on flexible all-plastic displays using E Ink® Imaging Film and a 'printed' backplane manufacturing process developed by Plastic Logic.
  
images courtesy of Plastic Logic
May, 2005 - Epson and E Ink coauthor a industry paper entitled "A Flexible 2-In. QVGA LTPS-TFT Electrophoretic Display" and present it at the Society for Information Display Conference and Symposium.
August, 2005 - Polymer Vision unveils their eReader concept READIUS, a rollable display using E Ink® Imaging Film.
  
images courtesy of Polymer Vision
October, 2005 - LG. Philips and E Ink announce the world's first tablet-sized flexible display at the FPD International 2005 show in Yokohama, Japan.
  
images courtesy of LG.Philips LCD
February, 2006 - Plastic Logic presents at USDC '06. Plastic Logic is continuing development of flexible all-plastic displays using E Ink® Imaging Film and their novel 'printed' backplane manufacturing process.
    
January, 2007 - Plastic Logic raises $100Mn to enable the first "take anywhere, read anywhere" electronic reader products. Plans are underway to build a factory in Dresden, Germany to manufacture plastic, flexible active-matrix electronics on a commercial scale.
January, 2007 - Polymer Vision announces a production facility for rollable displays with Innos. Commercial roll out of product is planned for 2007.
 
images courtesy of Polymer Vision
February, 2007 - Telecom Italia And Polymer Vision Announce The "Cellular-Book" The First Mobile Device With Rollable Display For Reading Personal Information, Newspapers And Books.
E Ink has a number of flexible display iniatives under development, including partnerships with Polymer Vision, Plastic Logic and Epson, among others.
目前参与E-INK技术开发的厂商有：
Epson ，LG.Philips，Plastic Logic,Polymer Vision 等 |