14 DAY TRIAL // Intel has decided to join in on further improving mobile phone screens and has designed a flexible display manufacturing technology of its own.
A lot of effort is involved in developing commercially viable flexible displays and many manufacturers are interested in constantly bringing innovation to the process.
A recent Intel patent filling called 'Method of fabricating flexible display' explains how the display will be produced and how it's meant to work.
According to the document, the screen will be made by: 'selecting a first flexible sheet and a second flexible sheet; and forming a number of magnetic display elements having magnetically controllable reflectivity between the first flexible sheet and the second flexible sheet. In some embodiments, a display includes pixels having a magnetically controllable reflectivity.'
'The pixels are formed between a pair of flexible non-conductive sheets. Each of the magnetically controllable pixels includes a flexible ring located between the flexible non-conductive sheets. Each of the magnetically controllable pixels also includes magnetic particles located within the flexible ring. The location of the magnetic particles with respect to the flexible non-conductive sheets determines the reflectivity of the pixel.'
Intel is planning to use the displays in most portable devices including cellphones, PDAs, GPS navigators and others. At the moment, several such projects are on the roll, but many seem to just get stuck during development and never become actual products. Hopefully, this is not the case and in fact we'll see products equipped with such displays in the near future. With so many companies aiming to improve the manufacturing process, quality or other aspects of mobile phone screens, some progress will definitely be made.