STTR Phase I: High Resolution, High Brightness Display for Virtual Reality

这项小型企业技术转移（STTR）第一阶段研究项目的重点是开发一种新型的头戴式显示技术，用于沉浸式虚拟现实和3d成像的先进应用。该技术结合了高效的上转换材料和密集集成的半导体器件。高速半导体与高效上转换器的密集集成解决了实现虚拟现实硬件和3d成像的重要问题之一，提供了非常小、高分辨率、高亮度的微显示芯片，可以集成到新的头戴式显示器设计中。这种小型、高分辨率、高亮度的芯片是开发新型紧凑型、高性能虚拟现实头显（包括眼镜显示器）的关键一步。本研究成果可应用于头戴式显示器，让用户体验高清晰度、高亮度、丰富色彩的3d立体图像。这可能是一项颠覆性的技术，影响全世界的教育、科学、医学、培训和娱乐。虚拟现实与3d成像的结合将为K-12学生、新员工和军事训练提供新的学习体验，并在新的或不熟悉的环境中收集信息。对于医疗应用，高分辨率头戴式显示器将为医生、护士和紧急医疗提供者提供基于虚拟现实的图形和逼真体验。一种高性能、低成本的3d成像头戴式显示器可能会主导世界娱乐行业，它能够给佩戴者带来真实的视觉体验。美国是显示器的主要消费国，由于目前的显示技术没有制造能力，这项研究可以促进高性能显示器制造业的重新夺回，从而为教育、医疗、政府和娱乐行业提供新产品。

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research project focuses on the development of a new type of head set display technology for advanced applications in immersive virtual reality and 3-D imaging. The technology combines efficient up-conversion materials with densely-integrated semiconductor devices. The dense integration of high-speed semiconductors combined with efficient up-converters solves one of the important problems in implementing virtual reality hardware and 3-D imaging to provide very small, high resolution, high brightness micro-display chips that can be incorporated into new head set display designs. The small, high resolution, high brightness chips are a critical step in developing new types of compact, high performance virtual reality headsets, including eyeglass displays. The outcomes of this research project can be applied to head-mounted displays enabling users to experience high definition, high brightness, and rich color, 3-D stereo images. This could be a disruptive technology that impacts education, science, medicine, training, and entertainment world-wide. The use of virtual reality with 3-D imaging would facilitate new learning experiences for K-12 students, new employee and military training, and information gathering in new or unfamiliar environments. For medical applications, high resolution headset displays will enable graphic and realistic experiences based on virtual reality for doctors, nurses, and emergency medical providers. A high performance, low cost 3-D imaging headset display would likely dominate the world's entertainment industry with the ability to bring a real life visual experience to the wearer. The U.S. is the major consumer of displays, and with no manufacturing capabilities in current display technologies, this research could facilitate the recapturing of the high-performance display manufacturing industry, thus enabling new products for the education, medicine, government, and entertainment industries.