World's best protection from moisture and oxygen

摘要

A breakthrough barrier technology from the Agency of Science, Technology and Research's (A~*Star's) Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Singapore, protects sensitive devices, such as organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and solar cells from moisture 1000 times more effectively than any other technology available in the market, opening up further opportunities for the developing plastic electronics sector.rnA team of scientists from IMRE has developed a new patented film that has the highest reported water vapour barrier performance to date. Tests have shown that the new film is 1000 times more impervious to moisture than existing technologies. This means a longer lifetime for plastic electronic devices such as solar cells and flexible displays, which use these high-end films but whose sensitive organic materials are easily degraded by water vapour and oxygen.