Advance in Printing Flexible Displays

A step toward roll-to-roll printing of newspapers
Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in producing transistors from networks of carbon nanotubes, a technology that could make it possible to print circuits on plastic sheets for applications including flexible displays and an electronic skin to cover an entire aircraft to monitor crack formation. The advance may allow researchers to use carbon nanotube transistors to create high-performance, shock-resistant, lightweight and flexible integrated circuits at low cost. A key advantage of the nanonet technology is that it can be produced at low temperatures, enabling the transistors to be placed on flexible plastic sheets that would melt under the high temperatures required to manufacture silicon-based transistors. Manufacturers might literally print, or stamp, circuits onto plastic sheets, like the roll-to-roll printing used to print newspapers."
Nanotechnology Today

FlexTech Alliance Wins Raytheon Military Contract

Project focuses on temperature, humidity, shock specs
The FlexTech Alliance (formerly known as the U.S. Display Consortium, or USDC), devoted to developing the electronic, flexible displays got a one-year contract to produce display demonstration units for military applications. Ultralow-power, lightweight displays can greatly improve soldiers' effectiveness in the field.
Military & Aerospace Electronics