I-Corps: Full Color, Low Power, Fast-Response, Reflective Display Technology

现代显示器已经成为信息处理和传播的最普遍的门户，我们消费的大部分信息都是通过各种形式和大小的显示器在视觉上引导的。色彩丰富，高对比度，阳光下可读，高效节能的电泳显示器将进一步缩小纸和电子显示器之间的数字鸿沟。不幸的是，这些需求的融合是现代显示技术面临的关键技术挑战。所提出的新显示技术能够克服这些固有的问题，以类似于在纸上打印的方式显示内容。消费者将受益于彩色、动态的显示替代方案，因为与明亮的lcd相比，它造成的眼睛疲劳要小得多。这种技术进步的后果是巨大的。数字动态标牌的时代可能很快就会到来，而能耗效率是使“纸上印刷”成为过去的关键因素。彩色电泳显示器消耗的能量比传统的LCD少54%。在节约能源的同时，这项技术还减少了纸张的消耗量，从而节约了树木的环境效益。该团队提出了一种新颖的基于颗粒的、低功耗、彩色、反射和快速响应的显示技术，可以在环境照明条件下使用。所提出的显示平台由电场驱动的粒子悬浮液实现，它提供了快速的响应时间，能够显示彩色图像和视频。这种方法避免了当前电泳方法所面临的许多技术问题，并可扩展到大面积显示。由于其易于制造需求，所提出的显示几何形状可以通过卷对卷加工技术制造，从而节省大量成本。该团队的技术进步使用了现有的制造技术，比传统显示器少使用80%的材料，使其经济且可持续。由于这项技术的功耗非常低，它的应用范围可以扩展到小到钥匙扣，大到迷彩坦克。考虑到这些优点，该团队设想其低功耗，基于颜色，粒子驱动的显示技术找到应用并增加现有产品的价值，同时使它们可持续发展，对消费者来说更愉快。

Modern displays have become the most prevalent portals for information processing and distribution and most of the information we consume is channeled visually through displays of various forms and sizes. Colorful, high-contrast, sunlight readable, and power efficient electrophoretic displays will further close the digital divide between paper and electronic displays. Unfortunately, amalgams of these requirements are the key technical challenges faced by modern display technologies. The proposed new display technology is capable of overcoming these inherent problems to display content in a manner similar to print on paper. Consumers will benefit from the colorful, dynamic display alternative as it causes much lower eyestrain when compared to bright LCDs. The ramifications of such technological advancement are dramatic. The age of digitally dynamic signage may soon be upon us and power consumption efficiency is a key factor in making 'print on paper' a thing of the past. Colored electrophoretic displays consume 54% less energy when compared to conventional LCD?s. In conjunction with energy savings, this technology also reduces the amount of paper consumed, and therefore the environmental benefit of saving trees. This team has proposed a novel particle-based, low power, colored, reflective and fast response display technology that can be used in ambient lighting conditions. The proposed display platform is enabled by electric-field driven particle suspensions, which offers fast response times capable of displaying colorful images and video. This approach evades many technical issues faced by current electrophoretic methodologies, and scalable to large area displays. Due to its facile fabrication needs, the proposed display geometry could be fabricated by roll-to-roll processing techniques resulting in substantial cost savings. This team's technological advancement uses existing manufacturing techniques and uses 80% less material by volume than conventional displays making it economical and sustainable. Because of this technology's remarkably low power consumption, its applications extend to products as small as key fobs and as large as camouflaged tanks. Considering these merits this team envisions that its low power, color based, particle-driven display technology finds application and increases the value of existing products, while making them sustainable and more enjoyable for consumers.