Since it's slow, here is an old one from Jabbour Oct 2000
Sneak Previews
Breakthroughs on the horizon
By Bruce Wiebusch, Regional Editor -- Design News, October 1, 2000
Fold-up television screens
Ghassan Jabbour believes that one day soon we'll have flexible television screens that fold up so that people can carry the screens around in their pockets and purses. Jabbour, an optical sciences research professor at the University of Ari-zona, says that his research and development of organic light-emitting diodes is moving the new technology from concept to reality. Using screen-printing techniques, Jabbour and his team made, for the first time, thin films that are nearly a thousand times thinner than a single strand of human hair. The screen printing technique uses a frame, a fabric, a design stencil, ink, and a squeegee. A polymer and molecular blend combine to form the ink. "The organic material we use is very viscous, so we can make film a few nanometers thick," he says. The organic materials act as the ink in this case. The ink is deposited onto several substrates situated under the screen in direct contact with the fabric. The process yields a very thin film that is used as one of the active layers in organic light-emitting diodes. "Its applications include toys, signs, and many other products," Jabbour points out. Contact Jabbour at (520) 626-8324 or e-mail ej@optics.arizona.edu .
In line with the fold up TV from a post 4 years later in 2004
Researchers demonstrate wearable electronics to aid health and fashion
17. May 2004 05:05
Smart military camouflage
The military camouflage outfit is replete with pathogen detectors; a high-density, low-temperature micro fuel cell that acts as a lightweight, long-life power source; and a flexible electroluminescent display. It was designed to show the functionality of embedded electronics and sensors, many of which are being developed in ASU labs.
Zenhausern's group collaborated with Ghassan Jabbour of the University of Arizona in this project. It was Jabbour, who is coming to ASU in June to work with Zenhausern, who was invited to exhibit at NextFest. Jabbour's lab has many years of experience in developing organic light emitting diodes.
The sensor technology includes pathogen detectors that are more reliable and more sensitive than current technology. For example the detectors on the ASU military outfit could take bacteria, destroy it, then amplify the bacteria's DNA and look for certain characteristics of specific pathogens, like anthrax or small pox. Future versions could incorporate sensors to monitor a soldier's vital signs and fatigue, Zenhausern said.
The outfit also includes a flexible electroluminescent display that can be worn around the wrist to provide soldiers with instant awareness communications and updated commands, or environmental information about exposure to any biological or chemical agents. A third technology demonstrated in the outfit is an advanced micro fuel cell. The micro fuel cell would power an individual soldier's equipment for possibly up to a few weeks. It would be smaller and lighter weight than the conventional batteries that generate equivalent power, Zenhausern said.
It is now 6 years later and in some post, reference to military applications was made. Could it be something like the wrist display? Something is going to eventually give here just don't know when.
Another day closer. GLTA
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