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Plastic Logic Germany develops and manufactures glass-free, flexible, plastic electrophoretic displays (EPD), based on a proven, licensed organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) technology,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1392&doc_id=245254&f_src=designnews_gnews&dfpPParams&dfpPParams=ind_183,industry_consumer,industry_medical,bid_27,aid_245254&dfpLayout=blog )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://goodereader.com/blog/e-paper/plastic-logic-shows-off-new-10-7-color-display-screen/ )〕 in its purpose-built factory in Dresden, Germany. Originally a spin-off company from the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, the company was founded in 2000 by Richard Friend,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/design-engineering-news/plastic-logic-chief-receives-knighthood/2255/ )〕 Henning Sirringhaus and Stuart Evans〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/252325e8-0cd2-11dd-86df-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1#axzz26Lj29hFz )〕 and specialised in polymer transistors and plastic electronics. In February 2015, the company announced that the technology development and manufacturing parts of Plastic Logic would be separated and would go forward as independent companies, in order to generate focus while addressing a range of opportunities available in identified markets. FlexEnable was created from Plastic Logic's people and its technology assets in Cambridge, UK. The manufacturing plant in Dresden, Germany, which develops, manufactures and sells a range of flexible EPD, operates independently under the name Plastic Logic Germany. Plastic Logic opened the first mini-fabrication plant on November 11, 2003 in Cambridge, UK. A factory for the mass-production of the display units was opened on September 17, 2008 in Dresden, Germany. Plastic Logic announced its first plastic screen device on November 30, 2004, to be used by Siemens Communications in their mobile devices. This was followed by the announcement of an ereader called the QUE proReader. However, by August 2010, they had cancelled the QUE proReader. In September 2011 the company announced Plastic Logic 100 aimed to bring e-textbooks to Russian schools. In January 2011 the company received $280m in venture capital: $230m into the equity of Plastic Logic from Rusnano and $50m from Oak Investment Partners, a multi-stage venture capital firm. In May 2012 Plastic Logic revealed a ‘Plastic Inside’ strategy – selling its plastic back-planes, sensors and tags for customers to incorporate into other products. On May 17, 2012, Plastic Logic announced that they were abandoning plans to manufacture their own e-reader devices (focusing instead on licensing their existing technology), shutting down their US office in Mountain View, California, and reducing staff elsewhere.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=A logical step )〕 In July 2012, Plastic Logic demonstrated a flexible display that was 130 µm thick, as well as the first flexible plastic display that can play colour video animation content at 12 frames per second (14 fps in black and white), driven by OTFTs (organic thin film transistors). Plastic Logic also demonstrated several product concepts including an ultra-thin e-paper companion device for a smartphone. The 10.7” touchscreen pane for viewing of webpages and documents was designed for easier reading of content than on the screen of a smartphone. BBC ''Click'' featured Plastic Logic's technology in a report on "going paperless" in July 2012. == Technology == Plastic Logic Germany licenses technology from FlexEnable Ltd's technology platform based on organic thin film transistors (OTFTs), enabling electronics to be manufactured on flexible or plastic sheets, to make flexible plastic electrophoretic displays (EPD) in a full range of sizes. These daylight readable displays are designed to be lightweight, thin and robust with low battery consumption. The company claims they have lifetimes of over five years and more than 10 million page updates. The same technology can also be used for non-display applications. One example is the world's first flexible image sensor on plastic, which was jointly developed by ISORG and Plastic Logic and showcased at LOPE-C in June 2013. In January 2013, the company won the FlexTech Alliance's "FLEXI 2013 R&D Award" for innovation in flexible display manufacturing. This was in recognition for the development of a scalable manufacturing process for integrating a colour filter array on a flexible plastic display. Other companies recognised by the FlexTech Alliance included Corning, Inc. and American Semiconductor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Plastic Logic」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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