Flexible Active Matrix Addressed Displays Manufactured by Screen Printing

A flexible, electrochromic, active matrix addressed display (AMAD) is demonstrated. The monolithically integrated AMAD, which contains a 3 × 3 array of organic electrochromic smart pixels (OESPs), is manufactured on a plastic substrate solely using screen printing. Each OESP is based on the combination of one organic electrochromic display (OECD) and one organic electrochemical transistor (OECT), where both devices are screen printed into multilayered vertical architectures. The conduction state of the OECT enables control of the color state of its corresponding OECD, thereby circumventing cross-talk effects in the resulting AMAD device. The manufacturing approach also involves electrical wires, which connect each OECD with its corresponding OECT and also serve as the addressing lines of the resulting AMAD device, that are formed by screen printing of an ink based on either silver or nanocopper.
Funding details: European Commission, EC, FP7‐NMP‐2013‐SME‐7, 604568; Funding details: Stiftelsen för Strategisk Forskning, SSF, SE13‐0045; Funding text 1: This project was financially supported by the European Commission (FP7‐NMP‐2013‐SME‐7, project 604568 Printed Logic for Applications of Screen Matrix Activation Systems [PLASMAS]) and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (Silicon‐Organic Hybrid Autarkic Systems, Reference number: SE13‐0045). The authors acknowledge Intrinsiq Materials for providing and sintering the nanocopper‐based screen printing ink.