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.
(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.
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.
Based
on electrowetting technology, it can deliver monochrome reading experience having high brightness while at the same time, the screen can also deliver a vivid hi - fidelity video
display having rich colors.
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.
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.
Liquavista's
display are based
on the principle of
Electrowetting (when a voltage is used to modify the wetting properties of a solid material).
That means that e-paper
displays based
on electrowetting designs will be thicker.
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.
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.
Liquavista's
electrowetting displays are color, unlike the black - and - white screens used
on the Kindle ebook readers.