Yesterday, we reported about electronic notebook Sony - a 13.3-inch tablet-based on electrophoretic display E Ink. Model Plastic Logic e-book 100 E Ink screen with a diagonal of 10.7 inches, presented in 2011 September, could prove to be the world's first device with a sufficiently large flexible and unbreakable plastic screen.
Plastic Logic company ended cooperation with E Ink company, promising to create a flexible (plastic) substrate of the thin film transistors using organic materials. Then - the investors from the UK and Germany, who took more than $ 100 million to build the factory. In the end, E Ink company , came to the start - in cooperation with Sony.
At the time, Sony has participated in the development of active-matrix substrate transistor of the first commercial e-books at E Ink. Today, 10 years later, Sony has created for the company's first flexible active-matrix transistor plastic substrate. Flexible substrate - this is primarily no brittleness peculiar glass substrates.
According to the company, the mass production of 13.3-inch plastic displays will begin this year.