SAN JOSE, CA - Honeywell Electronic Materials and the U.S. Display Consortium (USDC) announced an agreement to develop materials for flexible electronics.
 
Under this agreement, Honeywell will focus on developing materials to prevent short circuits in flexible electronics for devices used by the US military. Beta site testing of these new materials will take place at the Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University (ASU FDC).

"We continue to find new opportunities to apply our deep knowledge of materials traditionally used for semiconductors to the growing area of displays and flexible electronics," said Peter Smith, business director for Honeywell Specialty Materials. "Besides delivering value and functionality to the U.S. military, we believe new materials developed as part of this collaboration will apply to commercial uses."

Honeywell will be developing materials used in flexible displays, organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) and flexible photovoltaics.

Dr. Mark Hartney, CTO of the US Display Consortium stated, "This project is important for the development of flexible electronics, especially displays, where the use of new substrate materials such as metal foils or plastic films can offer new form factors and potentially lower costs through new manufacturing methods."

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