Another advantage
with electrowetting displays is they are visible in bright sunlight like E Ink because no polarizing filters are required.
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.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
The bubbler method combines reverse
electrowetting with bubble growth and collapse.
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.
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.
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.