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
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.