UniPixel Touch Sensors Well-Positioned for Flexible, Foldable OLEDs, CEO Says

Flexible OLEDs are commercially available today, and more and more are being incorporated into smartphones “with fixed curved features,” said Jeff Hawthorne, CEO of touch-screen components supplier UniPixel, on a Thursday earnings call. Design work is underway “to improve the flexibility of OLED devices that will permit them to fold and bend multiple times,” said Hawthorne. “The brittle nature of indium tin oxide touch-screen technology currently in broad use will not support flexible and foldable applications.” UniPixel’s metal-mesh touch sensors “are very well suited for this type of application,” he said. “We believe that the ability to conform to certain shapes will be an important feature of next generation applications such as wearable devices, smartphones, and automotive applications among others.”