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1. FlexEnable
Low Cost Flexible Displays and Sensors:
Activating Surfaces for Wearables and
Everywhere-ables
Paul Cain, Strategy Director, FlexEnable
Cambridge Graphene Technology Days 2015
3rd CIR Graphene Business Conference, 6 November
www.hvm-uk.com

2. Cambridge Graphene Technology Days 2015
FlexEnable’s process toolkit
• The most significant new transistor and flexible electronics platform in decades-
based on high performance Organic Thin Film Transistor (OTFT)
• Enables true flexibility, bendability and unbreakability, for displays, sensors &
entire electronics systems on plastic
• Fully industrialised and suitable for all high volume display (LCD,OLED,EPD) &
sensor technologies
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……launching a spectacular future for flexible electronics

3. Cambridge Graphene Technology Days 2015
OTFT enables ultra-thin, truly flexible electronics
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0.25mm
Transistor Bend Radius
Wraps around a matchstick
25µm
Substrate Thickness
As thin as a human hair
100gsm
Weight per area
As light as a sheet of paper
60 Hz OLED/LCD
Flexible full motion video
Low Cost
Lowest cost for all areas
and surfaces
Shatterproof
Rugged displays and
sensors
• The lowest cost transistor technology for flexible displays and sensors

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Flexing in Action
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The OTFT performance revolution – now means that:
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Fast TFTs to meet customer demands
Mobility > 2
Stability to enable long lasting products
Current stability ΔVth < 0.3V
1µA for 3hr
Uniformity to enable high
manufacturing yield
Flexibility to enable exciting new
form factors
Current Variation < 5% Bend radius < 0.25mm

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Breakthrough OLCD on ultra low cost substrates
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In partnership with

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Flexible Colour OLED in partnership CPT
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Enabling truly revolutionary form factors
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9. Cambridge Graphene Technology Days 2015
Flexible Displays for Wearables and Everywhere-ables
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Enabling New markets and transforming exisiting markets
Unbreakable Mobile
Devices
Automotive and
Aerospace
Wearables Digital Signage
$23Bn Wearable
Display Market 2023
(IHS)
$24 Billion 2020
(Markets&Markets)

10. Cambridge Graphene Technology Days 2015
Glass-free Wearable and Everywhere-able Sensors
November 7, 2015 | 10
Enabling New markets and transforming existing markets
Flexible, Unbreakable
Xray Sensors
Flexible, Wearable
Biometrics
Pressure Sensor Arrays for “Electronic Skin”
Printed Plastic OTFT
array backplane
+
Printed Piezoelectric
Pressure sensor
Pressure sensor array
Wearable SensorsMulti-functional
Smartcards

11. Cambridge Graphene Technology Days 2015
Building Flexible Supply Chains for Wearables
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• Enabling materials, product and manufacturing companies
to accelerate their route to volume and facilitate new
supply chains
• Enables rapid prototyping and evolution kits for flexible
displays, sensors and new product concepts for
wearables, IoT.

12. Cambridge Graphene Technology Days 2015
Potential for 2D materials in flexible, printed electronics
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Layer Functional Requirements Benefits
Flexible Substrate Improved barrier WVTR < 10-6 g/m2-day More flexible than ceramic alternatives
Interconnection
lines
Sheet Resistance < 0.5 Ω/□ Replace metals for stretchable electronics
Semiconductor Field effect mobility > 30 cm2/(V·s); Needed for high frequency applications
Pixel electrode Transparency> 90%; Sheet Resistance < 100 Ω/□ Replace ITO

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Case study: Transitioning Graphene from LAB to FAB
• Start with initial assessment on test chips
• Scale-up to industrial process flows
• Production of commercially relevant demos
World’s first Graphene display made by FlexEnable in
collaboration with Cambridge Graphene Centre

14. Cambridge Graphene Technology Days 2015
Graphene Projects at FlexEnable
Highly conductive Ultraflexible Graphene
(HUG)
The aim of the project is to replace the metal
gate of the organic thin film transistor (OTFT)
with graphene and integrate in an active matrix
to drive an electrophoretic display with further
potential integration in organic LCDs (OLCDs).
• More flexible OTFT arrays
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250x
Contiguous Graphene Ultra-barrier Films for
Printable Electronic Applications (GRAVIA)
The aim of this project is to increase the flexibility of
barrier substrates by integrating graphene in the
barrier stack.
• Fabricate more flexible barrier substrates
• Fabricate more flexible encapsulation
PEN
graphene

15. Cambridge Graphene Technology Days 2015
Summary
• FlexEnable has developed a revolutionary and low cost, high
performance platform for flexible electronics, using existing supply
chains – all the ingredients are now there:
Partner with us to become part of the ecosystem for the flexible
electronics revolution
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Utility – What do you get
with glass-free?
OTFT
Low-Temperature
Process
Organic Semiconductor
Solution Processing
Low-Temperature
Process
FPD Compatible
Cost/VolumePerformance
ü Conformability
ü Flexibility
ü Thinness
ü Light weight
ü Unbreakable
ü Transistors - Better
than a:Si
ü Uniformity
ü Reliability
ü BOM
ü Yield
ü Existing Manufacturing
Infrastructure

16. www.flexenable.com
info@flexenable.com
@flexenable
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