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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Tech firm LG says the screen is its latest step towards creating a fully rollable 60-inch ultra-HD screen by 2017</span>.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The screen can be rolled in a tube just 3cm wide</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LG has unveiled an 18-inch TV panel that can be rolled into a tube measuring just 3cm across.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The company says it is the latest step towards creating a fully rollable 60-inch ultra-HD screen by 2017.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Screens that can be flexed are not new, but the size of LG's latest offering is significant.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The screen continues to operate as it is rolled up, and the company says its performance is unaffected.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Research and development chief In-Byung Kang said: "We are confident that by 2017, we will successfully develop an Ultra HD flexible and transparent OLED panel of more than 60 inches."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rollable television sets could be easily stored when not in use to create more space.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The flexible panel has an HD-class resolution of 1200x810 pixels with almost one million megapixels.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LG says it used high molecular substance-based polyimide film as the backplane of the flexible panel instead of conventional plastic to achieve the maximum curvature radius.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The polyimide film helped in keeping the thickness of the panel low, improving its flexibility.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LG has been investing heavily in the technology, and recently announced plans to spend $655m (£381m) on manufacturing infrastructure for a factory in South Korea.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The company was also the first to bring a curved TV set to market.</span></div>
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