Plastic Logic's first commercial application is likely to be as backplanes for liquid-crystal displays or electronic paper.

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But the combination of organic electronic backplanes and electrophoretic frontplanes could produce truly rollable, albeit monochrome, displays in the not-too-distant future.

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It is now installing equipment to enable it to make such backplanes at paperback (A5) size, and then plans to move on to 150ppi displays at magazine (A4) size.

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Although Mr Peruvemba says his firm has started manufacturing displays with flexible backplanes in-house, its many partners are also busy researching ways to make electronic paper as flexible as the real thing.

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