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

I-Corps：全彩、低功耗、快速响应、反射式显示技术

• 批准号: 1530921
• 负责人: L. Jay Guo
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-05-01 至 2015-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1530921&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Full; Color; Low; Power

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.

现代显示已成为信息处理和分发的最普遍的门户，我们消费的大多数信息都是通过显示各种形式和尺寸的显示。五颜六色，高对比度，可读和电力有效的电泳显示器将进一步关闭纸张和电子显示器之间的数字鸿沟。不幸的是，这些要求的汞合金是现代展示技术面临的主要技术挑战。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。消费者将从五颜六色，动态的显示替代方案中受益，因为与明亮的LCD相比，它会导致眼睛疲劳。 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我们身上，功耗效率是使“打印在纸上”成为过去的关键因素。与常规LCD？S相比，有色电泳显示的能量减少了54％。结合节能，这项技术还减少了消耗的纸张量，因此可以减少节省树木的环境利益。 该团队提出了一种新型的基于粒子的，低功率，有色，反射和快速响应显示技术，该技术可用于环境照明条件。所提出的显示平台由电场驱动的粒子悬架启用，该悬架提供了能够显示彩色图像和视频的快速响应时间。这种方法逃避了当前电泳方法所面临的许多技术问题，并且可扩展到大面积显示器。由于其便捷的制造需求，建议的显示几何形状可以通过滚动处理技术来制造，从而可节省大量成本。该团队的技术进步使用了现有的制造技术，并且比传统显示器的材料少80％，使其经济和可持续性。由于该技术的功耗非常低，因此其应用扩展到了关键FOB和伪装坦克大的产品。考虑到这些优点，该团队设想其低功率，基于颜色的，粒子驱动的显示技术可以找到应用并增加了现有产品的价值，同时使它们可持续且对消费者更加愉快。