A bright new page in portable displays
A bright new page in portable displays
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DOI：
10.1109/6.873916
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发表时间：
2000-10-01
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影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Crawford, GP
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作者：
Crawford, GP
如果笔记本电脑屏幕上的文字看起来像是印在纸上的，就像报纸或杂志上的那样，那不是更容易阅读吗？好吧，这是一个独特的显示三人组即将上市的情况。在这三款新显示器中，最接近上市的是肯特显示器公司的液晶显示器（LCD），肯特，俄亥俄州。这种液晶显示器之所以被称为LCD，是因为它使用的液晶材料最初来自动物胆固醇，它将是一个全彩屏幕。其他两个显示器是基于电子屏幕应该如何工作的全新概念。一个是施乐公司的Gyricon。位于加州的Pale Alto研究中心（PARC），它可以卷成长片，由设计师裁剪以适应应用。电子墨水，第三种类型的显示器，正在开发的epsilon电子墨水公司，一家总部位于剑桥的马萨诸塞州理工学院（MIT）的分支机构。甚至比Gyricon更薄，它使用充满液体蓝色染料的小透明球体，其中漂浮着白色芯片。
Wouldn't it be a lot easier to read a laptop's screen if the words looked as if they were printed on paper, as in a newspaper or magazine? Well, that is the case for a trio of unique displays about to hit the market. Of the three new displays, the closest to hitting the market is a liquid-crystal display (LCD) from Kent Displays Inc., Kent, Ohio. Called cholesteric because the liquid-crystal material it uses was originally derived from animal cholesterol, this LCD will be a full-color screen. The other two displays are based on entirely new concepts of how an electronic screen should work. One is the Gyricon from Xerox Corp.'s Pale Alto Research Center (PARC) in California, which can be rolled up into long sheets and cut by designers to fit the application. E Ink, the third type of display, is being developed by the eponymous E Ink Inc., a Cambridge-based spin-off of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Even thinner than the Gyricon, it uses small transparent spheres filled with a liquid blue dye in which white chips float.