International team to develop new LED process to make the screen more flexible

A new LED process will change the way you watch TV, monitor your health, and even look out of the window. This new process is developed by an international team, can produce a small, ultra-thin inorganic LED, regardless of brightness or durability are higher than the traditional LED.

According to Lino (University of Illinois) and "science news release" (Science) magazine, developed the new process research team is composed of Lino materials science and engineering professor John Rogers with Northwestern University (Northwestern University), Singapore High Performance Computing Research Institute (Institute of High Performance and Computing) Beijing Tsinghua University experts.

A stretchable miniature LED display, printed with miniature LED connected to a web and attached to a rubber substrate. (Credit: Photo D. Stevenson C. Conway, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois) (by and)

A miniature LED display on a thin plastic plate and around the finger. (Credit: Photo D. Stevenson C. Conway, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois) (by and)

Although inorganic LED bright and durable, is expensive and not easy to produce thick, and organic LED cheaper, easier to manufacture, thinner, and can be applied in a curved surface, so this new technology is combines the advantages of both.

Rogers said, "our goal is to bring some advantages of high adaptability, inorganic and organic LED LED easy production and easy to deal with the characteristics of the combination of" by making a large ultra-thin, ultra small inorganic LED, and through the thin film process to each other together, we can create a display the general system lighting system with high resolution, which is the production, processing and assembly process of the traditional inorganic LED cannot do.

The technology may be able to create a roll up TV screen, or a brake light that fits the car's structure.

Flexible LED network is particularly suited for use in the medical field, Rogers said: "a malleable, by small LED consisting of the net around the human body, biomedical and biological sciences can provide interesting research opportunities", "which includes health monitoring, diagnosis, imaging and so on the application".