Flexible, foldable organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays have been conceptually demonstrated but not yet commercialized in a consumer electronics device. We will share progress and understanding of how 3M TM Optically Clear Adhesives (OCAs) can be used to laminate cover windows and touch sensors to enable active, dynamic folding of flexible OLED displays.
Optically clear adhesives (OCA) have been used for more than a decade to bond rigid LCD and AMOLED displays for consumer electronics applications, offering optical, mechanical, and electrical performance benefits. The performance requirements of an OCA to bond cover window, touch sensors, and circular polarizers in a plastic OLED display to bent cover glass or a flexible, foldable OLED display are drastically different from a flat, rigid device. For plastic OLED to bent cover glass bonding, the adhesive needs to be strong enough to resist spring back of the flat, plastic OLED devices. For flexible, foldable OLED displays, the neutral plane needs to be managed during folding keeping strain to a minimum in critical layers of the device (e.g., touch sensor, TFT, TFE), and the OCA cannot deform (or cause other layers to deform) during the folding process. Folding also brings challenges to touch sensors that can no longer use conventional passivation layers. As a result, the OCA will be responsible for preventing corrosion of touch sensor materials such as metal mesh, silver nanowire, carbon nanotube, and graphene. The chapter will discuss OCA performance requirements for rigid, flexible, and foldable OLED bonding.
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