Bodle Technologies Ltd has developed the world’s first TFT driven Solid State Reflective Display (SRD®) fabricated on a GEN2.5 line at Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). Led by Bodle’s VP for Manufacturing, TS Jen, the team in Taiwan transferred the designs and research activities directly from the Oxford based team to produce the test displays.
TS Jen comments: “This is an important milestone for Bodle, giving us the confidence that our technology is manufacturable using standard processes. We are delighted to be doing this in an ecosystem where many new display technologies have been launched.”
Bodle’s Taiwan Team Albert Tsai, TS Jen and Luc Lai with the SRD® prototype panel at Taiwan’s ITRI
The SRD® is an ultra-low power, colour reflective display, based on phase-change materials, which work over a wide range of temperatures. They have applications in areas such as mobile second screens, electronic shelf edge displays as well as personalized jewellery and watches.
New VP of Materials and Engineering, Andrew Pauza adds: “To see this technology being scaled from a few pixels on R&D samples made on a lab coater to work on displays with nearly a quarter of a million pixels, made on a production coater is fantastic. Many of the materials and production processes are based on those used for rewritable optical disc, an area where I have worked for many years. We have been able to apply these processes to accelerate this move to a more manufacturable process for the SRD.”
This step forward provides further impetus to the company’s expansion and scale up plans within Taiwan as it looks to commercialise its technology within the coming years.
About Bodle Technologies Ltd
Bodle Technologies is developing SRD®, the world’s first solid-state reflective display technology, based on phase-change materials. Providing vivid colour and video-capability, with zero energy use for static image storage, the technology is ideally suited to address the issues of poor outdoor readability and high power consumption associated with transmissive and emissive displays.
Invented at the University of Oxford, the science behind SRD® was first published in Nature during 2014.
Bodle was founded the following year and has a growing IP portfolio covering this new display technology. Bodle’s investors are led by Oxford Sciences Innovation (OSI)
