Reliability of the Flexible Display STN LCD Based Environmental Test

Abstract

In recent years, the application of Flexible Display (FD) is increasing dramatically due to its high brightness, high contrast, and large angle of view. Also because the substrate polymer material is flexible, FD is easily and widely used in various electronic packages. The competition of products based on these technologies such as electronic paper and mobile screen can be improved. In most of these applications, failure of FD can directly lead to failure of device. However, reliability data on FD are not commonly available in published literature, and the reliability of FD in practical application has not been studied very well. This paper presents an experimental study of FD with focus on its reliability under varying temperature and humidity conditions. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the failure mode of FD based on environmental test including steady damp heat test, dry heat test, cyclic damp heat test and cold test. The failure modes are discussed and the analysis is presented. In this study, all tests are conducted with visual inspections during each test procedure.