Printed Electronics — On Track to a Major Industry

Lessons from the race for flexible electrophoretic displays

In 2007, the most significant announcement has been the raising of $100 million by a small company, Plastic Logic, to set up a factory to make flexible electrophoretic displays in Dresden in Germany. The facility will produce flexible active-matrix display modules for ‘take anywhere, read anywhere’ electronic reader products. It will utilize Plastic Logic’s unique process to fabricate active-matrix displays using printed transistor backplanes that are thin, light and robust; enabling a reading experience closer to paper than any other technology.