PowerFilm Inc has been awarded a $1.4 million cooperative agreement by the U.S. Army for development of a Self Powered Flexible Display.
PowerFilm stated that this funding would support the first year of a three-year development program. Funding for the two following years is dependant on availability of funds and progress on the development milestones. The development of a flexible display under this agreement is expected to have significant cross-over benefit in other applications and markets.
The display is intended to improve the situational awareness of individual soldiers and would be based on the roll-to-roll based Thin Film Electronics technology being developed by PowerFilm in cooperation with Hewlett Packard Laboratories and would be powered by the Company's thin flexible solar panels.
The company claim to be the only one to manufacture and sell monolithically-integrated solar panels on plastic using a true roll to roll manufacturing process. The flexible paperthin polymide substrate is 0.025mm thick.
To help meet the Army's growing demand for rapid-response portable and remote power for weapons and communications systems, PowerFilm and its partners have already developed portable solar chargers and solar field shelters which provide power for lighting, ventilation, field communication radios, satellite phones, laptops, GPS units, refrigerators, water purification units etc.
Powerfilm Inc is based in Iowa in the US.
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