"Flexible" technology could revolutionize the touchscreen

The company introduced the revolutionary technology of Atmel XSense, which will be equipped with smart phones, tablets, watches and other touch screen devices, bent almost any angle. According to a press release, while the company has a number of test samples with a diagonal of 3 to 11 inches. Series production of "bent" screens planned for the third quarter of this year.

In contrast to the capacitive technology, which built most of today's displays, sensors are placed on XSense flexible film on which metal layers are applied. According to the Atmel, with manufacturers able to produce XSense thinner and lighter devices without a frame around the perimeter of the screen.

The smartphone with a flexible display, manufactured by a proprietary process, this year also plans to launch Samsung. This company announced in October 2011. Previously, Samsung has already demonstrated a flexible OLED-displays are placed in a hard shell that kept them bent.

The mass production of flexible displays has begun LG. They are designed to "book readers" e-books. As promised the company, such screens can be bent at an angle of 40 degrees, without fear of damaging the panel. It is expected that the first bukridery with a new flexible display will appear in Europe in early April.

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