Oxford flexible display materials reach final in RAEng prize

2nd April 2015

The Royal Academy of Engineering has announced that Oxford's Dr Peiman Hosseini is one of four finalists winning funding, mentoring and support from the Academy's Enterprise hub.

Hosseini’s project is a material for wearable display. It modulates both the optical and electronic properties of phase change materials to create a class of thin, high resolution displays with nanosecond access speed and no power consumption in static mode. The intention to use them in near-eye devices. A working device is expected within a year.

Dr Matthew Murray of the University of Leeds won the RAEng ERA Foundation Entrepreneurs’ Award for his Ultramatis anti-counterfeiting implantation.

Read more in ‘Nature’ features Isis flexible displays and Royal Academy of Engineering backs university projects with entrepreneurial training

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