Development and Optimization of Microstructure Arrays for Reflective Displays

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Screens are becoming ever more important these days, offering us a window into our digital lives. But the screens we usually use have a problem: they use up far too much power, limiting our devices' battery lives. The display on your phone can use up to 40% of your total battery life, not to mention you can't even read it outside on a bright day. Reflective display technologies are the solution to this problem. By using the light that's already around you, reflective displays can increase daylight visibility while dramatically cutting down the amount of power your screens use, saving you and your devices a trip to the outlet.Unfortunately, current reflective display technologies suffer from poor display quality and high manufacturing costs making them either unattractive or inaccessible to the consumer electronics market. The supporting company, Thalo Inc., has designed a new reflective display technology capable of reaching unparalleled performance at similar costs to standard LCD technologies. Thalo is working with a network of advanced industry advisors who have experience manufacturing display technologies and incorporating them into products in order to commercialize this technology. A key part of any display technology is the display structure itself, which determines how all the components work together to make a slim display device. The aim of the present project is to develop optimized fabrication processes to make these display microstructures using different materials. Thalo will then combine all components with this structure in order to demonstrate a working prototype display technology and continue commercialization of its technology.