• Title/Summary/Keyword: Electrophoretic display

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Transflective Liquid Crystal Display with a High Aperture Ratio using Electrophoretic Particles for a Switchable Mirror

  • Bae, Kwang-Soo;Kim, Young-Wook;Choi, Gwang-Hei;Heo, Jeong-Uk;Yu, Chang-Jae;Kim, Jae-Hoon
    • Journal of Information Display
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.119-122
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    • 2010
  • This paper proposes a transflective liquid crystal display (LCD) in a whole-pixel switchable configuration with a high aperture ratio using an electrophoretic particle layer (EPL). The switchable transflective LCD consisted of the liquid crystal layer as a display unit, and the EPL as a switchable mirror. The switching of the EPL between the mirror for the reflective mode and the transparency for the transmissive mode was performed by controlling electrophoretic nanoparticles with an applied voltage in a three-electrode structure. The single pixel was used as the whole transmissive or reflective mode that corresponded to the switchable EPL mirror. Thus, a transflective LCD with a high aperture ratio was obtained.

Perspectives and Challenges of Electrophoretic Displays

  • Zhou, Guofu;Johnson, Mark T.;Henzen, Alex;Kamer, Jan van de
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.236-240
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    • 2005
  • The commercialization of an active matrix e-reader display using E Ink microencapsulated electrophoretic (MEP) ink marked a big step towards comfortable reading over an extended period of time in an electronic book, as the high resolution display, jointly realized by Philips, E Ink and Toppan, has a true paper-like look and feel. Alternative electrophoretic material systems are being developed by SiPix and Bridgestone and progress has been made in the past two years. In this paper, electrophoretic material systems are briefly reviewed, after which the perspectives and challenges of electrophoretic displays are addressed and methods for generating gray tones are presented and discussed.

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Commercialization of Microencapsulated Electrophoretic Displays

  • McCreary, Michael
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.08a
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    • pp.524-524
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    • 2006
  • For decades, the pursuit of volume commercialization of low-power reflective displays with a paper-like look has been an unfulfilled dream. While steady technical progress was made throughout the late 1990s, there were still no volume products incorporating electronic paper displays (EPD) on the market. Now, microencapsulated electrophoretic display technology, also called electronic ink, has moved into volume production with a frontplane laminate (FPL) display component called E Ink Imaging Film™. This film is coated roll to roll on a flexible plastic substrate and integrated into a display module. Today, all-plastic segmented displays are being shipped as well as displays with electronic ink FPL being driven by glass TFT backplanes. A roadmap to active matrix flexible electrophoretic displays is being enabled by rapid technical progress on flexible TFT backplanes by a variety companies. Each of the approaches to these backplanes and flexible active matrix displays has different advantages for the various market segments being pursued including large format flexible displays for e-news and other reader applications, rollable displays for compact readers, and high resolution small format displays up to 400 ppi that can have fully integrated drive electronics to reduce size and drive down costs. Backplane approaches include Si on plastic, organic transistors on plastic, and Si transistors on flexible stainless steel substrate. Progress is also being made on next generation inks, including more reflective inks with higher contrast ratios. A full color 6 inch, 170 pixel per inch (PPI) active matrix display using a newer generation ink has been developed and this will be described and demonstrated. Large format segmented flexible displays will also be described.

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A controller design for high-quality images on microcapsule active-matrix electrophoretic displays

  • Lu, Chi-Ming;Wey, Chin-Long
    • Journal of Information Display
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.21-30
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    • 2012
  • Active-matrix electrophoretic display (AMEPD) is commonly used for the applications of smart handheld reading devices such as e-books and e-news. This paper presents a new reduced waveform lookup table storage method that reduces the associated lookup table by approximately 2n (n is the number of gray levels employed) times the conventional one. The paper also proposes a driving method for image display. The method provides high-speed performance for image display and also effectively eliminates the image residue, achieving high image quality. The prototyped controller was connected to a 6" AMEPD panel, whose excellent display quality demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed controller design.

Advances in Microencapsulated Electrophoretic Ink for Flexible Electronic Paper Displays

  • McCreary, Michael D.
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.234-235
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    • 2005
  • True electronic paper displays are being enabled by the development of two core technologies - plastic electronics for display backplanes and electrophoretic ink for use as the imaging layer. Electrophoretic ink developed by E Ink Corporation continues to advance performance along with parallel technology breakthroughs in flexible TFT backplanes. An overview of these advances in the ink imaging material will be discussed with special emphasis of the expected impact on the emerging flexible display applications.

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Driver electronics for commercialization of emerging display technologies

  • Wai-Yan, Stephen
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.08a
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    • pp.298-302
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    • 2006
  • Driver electronics for emerging display technologies are presented for OLED's, microdisplays, electrophoretic displays & bi-stable LCD's. Key factors for commercialization of these technologies are derived from the experience of the LCD's, including driver IC designs, wafer and assembly processes & applications.

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TFT Technology for Flexible Display Applications

  • Kim, Chang-Dong;Kang, In-Byeong;Chung, In-Jae
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.08b
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    • pp.1767-1770
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    • 2007
  • The key development issues in the flexible displays are TFT backplane technology for their various applications, which requires competitive device performance as well as its low temperature process. In this paper, with shortly reviewing recent flexible display development status, we describe technical trends of low-temperature a-Si TFTs. Our TFTs show good device characteristics enough to apply LCD and electrophoretic display.

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Simulation of the Electrical Response of Charged Particles in the Fluid for Horizontal Switching Electrophoretic Cell

  • Yeo, Jun-Ho;Kim, Sang-Won;Lee, Gi-Dong
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.10a
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    • pp.498-501
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    • 2009
  • Electrophoretic displays (EPDs) are attracting considerable attentions as a paper-like display. Especially, Electrophoretic cell consists of micron-sized, charged particles dispersed in a viscous fluid. When an external electric field is applied, the charged particles move with a speed proportional to the particle mobility and the local field strength. In electrophoretic displays fast switching times are required, so knowing the particle mobility is very important. In this paper, we study a novel simulation for calculating the particle motions submerged in a viscous fluid for horizontal switching electrophoretic cell.

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Flexible OTFT-Backplane for Active Matrix Electrophoretic Display Panel

  • Lee, Myung-Won;Song, Chung-Kun
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.08a
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    • pp.159-161
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    • 2007
  • We fabricated flexible OTFT-backplanes for the electrophoretic display(EPD). The OTFTs employed bottom contact structure on PEN substrate and used the cross-linked polyvinylphenol for gate insulator, pentacene for active layer. Especially, we used PVA/Acryl double layers for passivation of backplane as well as for pixel dielectric layer between backplane and EPD panel. The OTFT-EPD panel worked successfully anddemonstrated to display some patterns.

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