Electrofluidic displays are a variant
of electrowetting displays - which do require power to hold an image.
The manufacturing
of the electrowetting displays will be done at the Beijing Century Joyo Information Technology Co., Ltd Shenzhen Branch.
Electrofluidic displays are a variation
of an electrowetting display.
Not exact matches
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 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.
(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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Researchers from the University
of Cincinnati have demonstrated that regular paper can be a flexible host material for
Electrowetting displays.
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.
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.
Liquavista's
display are based on the principle
of Electrowetting (when a voltage is used to modify the wetting properties
of a solid material).
Electrowetting technology sandwiches the
display media between a top and bottom layer
of glass, while electrophoretic technology simply uses a polymer layer on top.
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.
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.
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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