UCLA develops stretchable OLEDS

26 Aug 2011

Engineers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have created a fully stretchable OLED.

The researchers devised a way of creating a carbon nanotube and polymer electrode and layering it onto a stretchable light-emitting plastic. In creating the display, the team sandwiched two layers of the carbon nanotube electrodes around a plastic that emits when a current runs through it, and used a laminating device to press the layered device tightly together, states a report on the Technology Reviewwebsite. The breakthrough could aid the development of rolled up thin OLED displays.

The finished device is able to stretch up to 45% while emitting a colour coded light.