{"id":210108,"date":"2025-03-30T13:24:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T18:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/shape-shifting-oled-panel-dynamic-smartphone-display-with-integrated-speaker-technology-unveiled"},"modified":"2025-03-30T13:24:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T18:24:56","slug":"shape-shifting-oled-panel-dynamic-smartphone-display-with-integrated-speaker-technology-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/shape-shifting-oled-panel-dynamic-smartphone-display-with-integrated-speaker-technology-unveiled","title":{"rendered":"Shape-shifting OLED panel: Dynamic smartphone display with integrated speaker technology unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/shape-shifting-oled-panel-dynamic-smartphone-display-with-integrated-speaker-technology-unveiled3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team has developed the world\u2019s first smartphone-type OLED panel that can freely transform its shape while simultaneously functioning as a speaker\u2014all without sacrificing its ultra-thin, flexible properties.<\/p>\n<p>The study, led by POSTECH\u2019s (Pohang University of Science and Technology) Professor Su Seok Choi from the Department of Electrical Engineering and conducted by Ph.D. candidates Jiyoon Park, Junhyuk Shin, Inpyo Hong, Sanghyun Han, and Dr. Seungmin Nam, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41528-025-00396-6\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the March online edition of npj Flexible Electronics.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/display\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">display<\/a> industry rapidly advances toward flexible technologies\u2014bendable, foldable, rollable, and stretchable\u2014most implementations still rely on mechanical structures such as hinges, sliders, or motorized arms. While these allow for shape adjustment, they also result in increased thickness, added weight, and limited form factor design. These drawbacks are particularly restrictive for smartphones and wearable electronics, where compactness and elegance are critical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team has developed the world\u2019s first smartphone-type OLED panel that can freely transform its shape while simultaneously functioning as a speaker\u2014all without sacrificing its ultra-thin, flexible properties. The study, led by POSTECH\u2019s (Pohang University of Science and Technology) Professor Su Seok Choi from the Department of Electrical Engineering and conducted by Ph.D. candidates [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}