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OLED Displays Will Dominate Printed Electronics

by Tom Allen

Raghu Das hosted the Printed Electronics keynote at the event. IDTechEx has worked in this space since 2001, and believes that it is now a $24.2 billion industry – including organic and flexible electronics. …

SEL Will Show ‘Hybrid’ Display at SID

by Tom Allen

Although little information has been released so far, Semiconductor Energy Laboratory says that it has developed a hybrid OLED-and-LCD display. Created in partnership with Advanced Film Device, the prototype uses an OLED display on …

Giant Clams Hold Clues to Reflective Colour

by Tom Allen

Scientists at the University of California have accidentally found a way to work towards reflective colour displays – in the shells of giant clams. Giant clams, which live in the Pacific and Indian oceans, …

Tags:Colour (Color)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Reflective Display| Vol 23 - Issue 02

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 50

by Tom Allen

More than two years after we first came across the Avegant Glyph headset (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 41), the company is now preparing to ship the product. Orders will be honoured throughout Q1’16, …

Folium Creates Low-Power Flexible Displays

by Tom Allen

Folium Optics is a UK start-up that is working with a technology to create low-power displays on plastic substrates. As well as being made of plastic – enabling flexible form factors – the displays …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Reflective Display| Vol 22 - Issue 48

An Improved Reflective Display Technology

by Arthur Berman

Reflective displays have the potential to dramatically reduce power consumption. Unfortunately, a common trade-off in the operating principle of such displays is that light reflected from the display is dispersed in a Lambertian-like pattern. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Reflective Display| Vol 22 - Issue 42

The Thread Screen Display is One of a Kind

by Arthur Berman

Breakfast LLC (Brooklyn, NY) bills itself as a company that can rapidly design and prototype systems and develop IP for client companies and brands. The most recent device produced by Breakfast took 1½ years …

Tags:Fabric & Textile Displays| Reflective Display| Vol 22 - Issue 32

Mirasol Evolution Produces ‘Any’ Colour

by Tom Allen

Researchers at Qualcomm MEMS Technologies have developed a new display, using a mirror and an absorbing layer to take advantage of the wave properties of natural light. The development is the latest version of …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Reflective Display| Vol 22 - Issue 26

JDI Looks to Premium Panels

by Tom Allen

Japan Display aims to hold a market share between 30% and 40% in high-end smartphone panels by 2020. The news comes from JDI COO Shuji Aruga, quoted by Taiwanese media. JDI also intends to …

JDI Pushes Reflective Smartwatch Module Samples

by Tom Allen

Japan Display has begun to sell small memory-in-pixel reflective colour LCD modules, for smartwatches and similar wearables. Because they are reflective, the modules consume ‘less than 0.5%’ of the power of transparent-type units. A …

Ortus Iterates on Blanview

by Raverstead

Ortus, of Japan, began in 2010 as a joint venture between Toppan and Casio. It has its own sunlight-readable display technology, Blanview, which is a type of transflective LCD. These displays are created by …

Sharp Improves Memory LCD Power Savings

by Super User

Sharp has developed a new Memory LCD panel (Display Monitor Vol 17 No 26), consuming 0.1% of the power of current devices. Designed for wearables, the 1″ panel combines reflective LCD technology with LTPS …