Samsung is at it’s game again. I call them the real innovators. They bring convert ideas to action in good time. Bloomberg just released a report that Samsung intends to introduce phones with wraparound screens sometimes next year. Rumors in the past had stated Apple releasing this but here we are. It’s Samsung.
Youm is the technology to be used by this upcoming device which is the updated version of Samsung’s proprietary technology.
In January 2013 Samsung officially launched their flexible OLED displays, calling them YOUM displays. YOUM panels are bendable – but it’s likely that the first products to use those displays will actually be rigid. The display can be “curved” thought. A plastic based AMOLED will also be shatterproof, and also lighter and thinner compared to glass based OLEDs
How are YOUM panels fabricated?
Some say that Samsung’s real bottle neck in flexible OLED production is the encapsulation technology. Samsung is currently using Vitex’s multi-layer technology which is very slow (the panel has to enter the evaporation chamber 6 times). Samsung is said to be evaluating UDC’s UniversalBarrier technology and Veeco’s FAST-ALD.
What have we not seen? Curved, wrapped, flexible, Youm, This is just the beginning.
