Electrofluidic displays are a variation
of an electrowetting display.
Always well informed on e-reader news, Nate Hoffelder (after fooling me with the promise
of an electrowetting color screen) suggests this one will have a battery case, but details are thin on the ground.
I think the biggest draw
of electrowetting, though, is that manufacturing of these displays can be done on virtually the same infrastructure as is used on LCD screens.
Liquavista's display are based on the principle
of Electrowetting (when a voltage is used to modify the wetting properties of a solid material).
Electrofluidic displays are a variant
of electrowetting displays - which do require power to hold an image.
Consumer electronics giant Samsung acquired Liquavista and is pushing the development and commercialization of the company's display technology based on the principles
of electrowetting.
The manufacturing
of the electrowetting displays will be done at the Beijing Century Joyo Information Technology Co., Ltd Shenzhen Branch.
Thanks to the high switching speed
of electrowetting and its applicability to small pixel dimensions, electrowetting displays support a fluent user interface and are ideally suited for information displays showing animated and video content.
The big advantage
of the electrowetting technology is that it allows the sub-pixels to be arranged above each other.
The LiquavistaBright and LiquavistaColor display screens makes use
of the electrowetting technology, which is all about putting to use electricity to bring about a contraction or expansion of the surface tension of colored oil films.
The essence
of Electrowetting technology is that it is highly scalable.
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...
Explore further: Philips shows functional, large - scale demonstrator
of its electrowetting - based electronic - paper technology
The essence
of Electrowetting technology is that it is highly scalable as the e-reader and tablet market has gravitated from small screens to displays exceeding 10 inches.
Not exact matches
A process called
electrowetting could provide 10 watts
of juice to smartphones and other gadgets as you walk
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.
Electrowetting involves modifying the surface tension
of liquids on a solid surface using a voltage.
According to Professor Alex Henzen, the core member
of the SCNU team and technical leader on e-paper, outdoor billboards made
of such an
electrowetting based reflective e-paper technology would take up less than 1 %
of the power consumption
of LED and TFT - LCD displays
of a similar size, making the new technology very attractive for the digital signage market.
The technology is based on
electrowetting, the same type
of technology that Liquavista developed.
(PhysOrg.com)-- By rapidly manipulating colored oil droplets stacked on top
of each other, a new
electrowetting (EW) technique could lead to the development
of electronic paper displays that can produce high - resolution color video.
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.
If it is a device featuring an Amazon Liquavista
electrowetting screen (which I hope it does), what kind
of impact do you see it having on the e-reader market?
The essence
of Liquavista is
Electrowetting technology that is highly scalable.
With
Electrowetting displays, the modification
of the surface tension is used to obtain a simple optical switch by contracting a colored oil film through applying a voltage.
Samsung spends a ridiculous amount
of money on developing its own screens and purchased Liquavista for its
electrowetting display, but could not do anything with it and sold it to Amazon.
Liquavista is based on
Electrowetting, which modifies the surface tension
of liquids on a solid surface by using a voltage.
The technology is based on
electrowetting, the same type
of technology that... [Read more...]
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.
Researchers from the University
of Cincinnati have demonstrated that regular paper can be a flexible host material for
Electrowetting displays.
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.
Electrowetting technology sandwiches the display media between a top and bottom layer
of glass, while electrophoretic technology simply uses a polymer layer on top.
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.
FIG. 1 Global E-Paper Display: Market Segmentation FIG. 2 Global E-Paper Display Market: Research Methodology FIG. 3 Top - Down and Bottom Up Approach FIG. 4 Global E-Paper Display Market, By Product, 2014 (US$ Mn) FIG. 5 Global E-Paper Display Market, By Technology, 2014 (US$ Mn) FIG. 6 Global E-Paper Display Market, By Geography, 2014 (US$ Mn) FIG. 7 Global E-Paper Display Market Revenue, 2013 — 2022, (US$ Mn) FIG. 8 E-Readers Shipment Worldwide, 2011 — 2015, (Mn Units) FIG. 9 See - Saw Analysis: Global E-Paper Display Market FIG. 10 Value Chain Analysis: Global E-Paper Display Market FIG. 11 Market Positioning
of Key E-Paper Display Manufacturers, 2014 FIG. 12 Global E-Paper Display Market Revenue Share, By Product Type, 2014 & 2022 (US$ Mn) FIG. 13 Global E-Paper Displays for E-Book Readers Market Revenue and Growth, 2013 — 2022, (US$ Mn)(Y - o - Y %) FIG. 14 Global E-Paper Display Market for Mobile Devices and Computers Revenue and Growth, 2013 — 2022, (US$ Mn)(Y - o - Y %) FIG. 15 Global E-Paper Display Market for Poster and Signage, Revenue and Growth, 2013 — 2022, (US$ Mn)(Y - o - Y %) FIG. 16 Global E-Paper Display Market for Smart Cards and Smart Packaging, Revenue and Growth, 2013 — 2022, (US$ Mn)(Y - o - Y %) FIG. 17 Global E-Paper Display Market for Other (Avionic Displays, Navigation Screen etc), Revenue and Growth, 2013 — 2022, (US$ Mn)(Y - o - Y %) FIG. 18 Global E-Paper Display Market Revenue Share, By Technology, 2014 & 2022 (% Value) FIG. 19 Global Electrophoretic E-Paper Display Market Revenue and Growth, 2013 — 2022, (US$ Mn)(Y - o - Y %) FIG. 20 Global
Electrowetting E-Paper Display Market Revenue and Growth, 2013 — 2022, (US$ Mn)(Y - o - Y %) FIG. 21 Global Cholesteric E-Paper Display Market Revenue and Growth, 2013 — 2022, (US$ Mn)(Y - o - Y %) FIG. 22 Global Other E-Paper Display Technologies Market Revenue and Growth, 2013 — 2022, (US$ Mn)(Y - o - Y %) FIG. 23 North America E-Paper Display Market Revenue and Growth, 2013 — 2022, (US$ Mn)(Y - o - Y %) FIG. 24 Europe E-Paper Display Market Revenue and Growth, 2013 — 2022, (US$ Mn)(Y - o - Y %) FIG. 25 Asia Pacific E-Paper Display Market Revenue and Growth, 2013 — 2022, (US$ Mn)(Y - o - Y %) FIG. 26 Rest
of World E-Paper Display Market Revenue and Growth, 2013 — 2022, (US$ Mn)(Y - o - Y %) List
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