Indium Tin Oxide ‘Not Optimal’ for Flexible, Foldable Displays, Says UniPixel

With “design work” increasingly taking place to create devices with flexible and bendable displays, the “indium tin oxide technology currently in broad use is not optimal for flexible and foldable applications,” UniPixel CEO Jeff Hawthorne said on a Thursday earnings call. UniPixel’s XTouch metal mesh sensors and Diamond Guard coating “are well suited for this type of application,” he said. The company’s internal testing “has yielded no performance degradation of our XTouch sensors” in tests of up to 200,000 folds at a 2-mm radius, he said. “We believe that this ability to conform to certain shapes will become prominent in broad applications, including wearables, smartphones and automotive applications, among others.”