Flexible Display With Bent Edge Regions

A display having an active area and an inactive area, the display comprising:

• a flexible substrate;
• a buffer layer on the flexible substrate in the active and inactive areas;
• polysilicon transistor structures on the buffer layer in the active area;
• gate insulator on the buffer layer and the polysilicon transistor structures in the active area;
• a first metal layer that forms transistor gates for the polysilicon transistor structures in the active area, wherein the first metal layer is formed on the gate insulator;
• interlayer dielectric on the gate insulator and the first metal layer in the active area;
• and
• a second metal layer that forms signal lines in the inactive area and that forms source and drain contacts for the polysilicon transistor structures in the active area.

A flexible display having an active area and an inactive area, the flexible display comprising:

• a buffer layer in the active area and the inactive area;
• an interlayer dielectric layer over the buffer layer;
• and
• a metal layer that is formed directly on the interlayer dielectric layer in the active area and that is formed directly on the buffer layer in the inactive area.