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A truly flexible display requires a truly flexible touch screen sensor


Most of today’s portable rigid display devices offer capacitive touchscreen functionality. Consumers have come to expect this technology in all smart devices and tablet computers but experience many frustrations including breakage, accidental use and an inability to operate when wearing insulating materials such as gloves.

 

The DRAS® technology overcomes capacitive touch screen limitations revolutionising next-gen portable devices and wearable-tech, providing greater functionality and control. It delivers superior spatial resolution, can sense finger force and requires no re-calibration. It’s not affected by humidity or temperature swings and only picks up intentional contacts.

 

What’s more the sensor can be made as large as the application requires, enabling large scale flexible TV’s and extensive wall size displays to be developed without increasing the complexity of the hardware interface and without compromising the sensor performance.

 

Next generation smart devices can also be customized in terms of shape, size, resolution, accuracy, flexibility and cost without compromising the ease of interface.

KEY FEATURES

 

•  The sensor is put behind the flexible display: there is no impact on the display's optical performance!
 

• Ideal for next-generation, flexible display devices and wearable         electronics
 

•  Truly flexible, rollable
 

•  Multi-touch
 

•  Finger force sensing
 

•  Not affected by humidity or temperature swings
 

•  No calibration required
 

•  Virtually borderless
 

•  Extremely thin
 

•  Consumes very little power

The DRAS® technology addresses all of the new demands and emerges as the winning solution for the new breed of portable & wearable devices with flexible displays!

Resistive

Capacitive

Properties

Analogue

Projected

Stable Calibration

Poor

Great

DRAS

Moderate

Great

Spatial Resolution / Accuracy

Good

Yes

No

H/W Complexity

Low

High

No

Works with gloves / pen

Yes

Handwriting Recognition

Yes

No

Touch

Responsiveness

Force

Low

High

Low

Frame Rate

Low

Cost

High

No

No

Force / Contact Area Sensing

Yes

No

Multi-touch

Yes

Yes

Flexibility

Yes

Yes

Yes

Great

Optical Performance

Great

Possible

Yes

Borderless

High

Sensitive to Humidity / Water

Power Consumption

Comparing Resistive, DRAS and Capacitive Touchscreens
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