US Patent 7579199 - Flexible flat panel display including transistors formed from nanoparticles

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In order to construct flexible display devices from plastic materials lower temperature manufacturing processes are necessary. This patent from Samsung Mobile Display teaches a method of using semiconductor nanoparticles to form thin film transistors for flexible displays. Claim 1 reads:

1. A method of manufacturing a thin film transistor, comprising:

partitioning a plurality of nanoparticle lines;

forming nanolayers on the nanoparticle lines, each nanoparticle line comprising a nanoparticle; and

forming an active layer by patterning the nanolayers.