Touting a «simplified LCD - like manufacturing process,» Liquavista specializes
in Electrowetting technology, which the Netherlands - based company explained on its website is more ideal for video content.
Samsung had acquired the Netherlands based digital publishing company that specializes
in electrowetting display technology in early 2011, though we have yet to see any product based on it entering large scale production.
Here it is the other way round,» says Frieder Mugele, an expert
in electrowetting from the University of Twente, the Netherlands, who was not involved with the work.
Not exact matches
This behavior, called
electrowetting, allowed the researchers to manipulate the liquid, expanding and contracting the dark ring to let
in more or less light through the clear liquid at the center.
Krupenkin's inspiration is a technique called
electrowetting,
in which a conductive liquid droplet, placed on an electrode, is physically deformed by an applied electric charge.
Philips generated considerable interest at this year's Society for Information Displays
in Seattle, USA with a demonstration of its
electrowetting - based electronic - paper technology
in a 1 - inch square, monochrome direct - driven...
Freescale is the leading supplier of e-reader processors with the majority of e-readers currently doing the rounds
in the market having a Freescale processor at its core while Liquavista is a pioneer of color e-reader display and has the
electrowetting LiquavistaColor display technology to its credit.
The
electrowetting technology, which operates
in transmissive, reflective, transparent and transflective modes, enables the creation of displays with bright, colorful images with dramatically reduced power consumption.
Professor Andrew Steckl, from the University of Cincinnati, successfully showed how
electrowetting paper works
in a similar manner to
electrowetting glass.
Given the fact that
electrowetting displays have the same cost structure as LCDs and can be made
in the same fabs means that we are ideally positioned to follow this expected price erosion, or even drive it.
However,
electrowetting display technology is very scalable, so will support all diagonal sizes that currently exist
in the market.
Johan joined Philips Research Labs back
in 1999, where he co-invented
Electrowetting displays and co-founded Liquavista.
Combining the advantages of LCD (video, color, interactivity) with those of E-ink (readability and low power consumption)
in a single display is what we can do with our
electrowetting displays.
It's unlikely Amazon will release another large - screen E Ink ereader again, especially now that they've invested
in color
electrowetting display technology.
Another advantage with
electrowetting displays is they are visible
in bright sunlight like E Ink because no polarizing filters are required.
Other companies are also trying to turn
electrowetting display technology into a viable business, so it seems that, like the development of the LCD display, which began
in the US but was not perfected until the technology was acquired by Korean companies like Samsung and LG, this is the sort of technology that could take a long time to develop and will eventually give rise to an ecosystem of competing manufacturers.
The technology works on a principle called
electrowetting,
in which each pixel on the screen consists of tiny capsules of an oil that respond to electrical charge.
Liquavista announced a new dynamic frame rate capability down to frequencies as low as 1Hz, resulting
in ultra-low power
electrowetting display driving.
Electrowetting displays are similar to E Ink displays used on current Kindles (Kindle ebook readers, not Kindle tablets)
in that they are more energy efficient than traditional LCD displays and unlike LCD they are readable under bright light.
Back
in 2013, Samsung sold LiquaVista, its
electrowetting display unit, to Amazon (Samsung itself bought Liquavista
in 2011).
According to Bloomberg, Samsung wants to sell its
electrowetting display unit LiquaVista which they bought back
in January 2011.
Two months ago it was rumored that Samsung wants to sell its
electrowetting display unit LiquaVista which they bought back
in January 2011, and Amazon may turn out to be the buyer.