A flexible OLED device starts and ends with glass.

When you look at your mobile device, you likely see sleek Corning? Gorilla? Glass.

But what you don’t see is the stunning OLED display’s glass beginnings.

Creating a high-performance flexible OLED panel requires a demanding, high-temperature manufacturing process, so materials used in these displays should be structurally and thermally stable. High-performance display glass substrates – like Corning Lotus? NXT Glass – are uniquely optimized to remain structurally stable despite high temperatures.

When set makers request that a mobile device’s display panel be molded, curved, or folded for its industrial design, panel makers add plastic – a polyimide layer, to be precise.

In this case, Lotus NXT Glass is the carrier glass substrate, providing a solid foundation to usher the polyimide backplane through this demanding process. With the Lotus NXT Glass carrier substrate as a stable base, a high-resolution panel can be built and remain thermally and structurally stable upon a malleable backplane material.

Once the glass substrate carries the polyimide-based panel to fruition, a UV laser helps cleanly remove the carrier glass substrate. Now the flexible polyimide-based panel can be bent and molded into today’s cutting-edge industrial designs.

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