LG Display’s stretchable screen is now even stretchier

LG Display has precocious announced a new type of its unsocial stretchable display pinch improved elasticity and durability. The 12-inch prototype tin now beryllium stretched up to 18 inches without being destroyed successful the process, opening up caller possibilities for wherever screens tin perchance beryllium installed.

The institution first demonstrated a prototype of the show successful 2022, but astatine the clip it could only beryllium stretched from 12 to 14 inches, aliases astir 20 percent of its length. The latest prototype features a “new wiring creation structure” and an improved silicon substrate — akin to the worldly utilized to make interaction lenses — to grow the panel’s stretchability to up to 50 percent.

Built utilizing micro LEDs, the caller prototype is tin of displaying afloat RGB colors astatine a solution of 100ppi, and is much resilient than erstwhile versions. According to LG Display, it “can beryllium many times stretched complete 10,000 times, maintaining clear image value moreover successful utmost environments specified arsenic vulnerability to debased aliases precocious temperatures and outer shocks.”

Although elastic displays person been disposable to consumers for years now successful folding smartphones and moreover TVs that rotation up retired of sight, LG Display hasn’t announced immoderate commercialized applications for its stretchable surface yet. But the institution expects location to beryllium galore uses for the technology, including wearable displays integrated into clothing without compromising comfort, aliases infotainment screens successful cars that tin conform to the curves aliases style of a dashboard without limiting the interior creation of a vehicle.