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According to their press release Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. has developed an amorphous oxide semiconductor thin film transistor (TFT) array and succeeded in driving an electrophoretic E Ink front panel laminate to fabricate a prototype flexible electronic paper display. Apparently the amorphous InGaZnO semiconductor used here has a higher charge carrier mobility (> 5cm^2/Vs) than [...] Nikkei Electronics Asia has a cover story on the growing market for electronic ink applications. BusinessWeek has a story on electronic ink applications, such as Hitachi’s electronic paper advertisement displays, updated via wireless connection. But the fact is, paper hasn’t gone away. The spread of the Internet and the rise of the PC [...] MobileRead compares the specs of the recently announced iRex Iliad (December 2005) and the Sony Reader (January 2006, successor to the Librie): Dimensions: Weight: Screen: Internal memory: This USB flash memory drive features an E Ink storage capacity indicator, made possible by the bistability of the display medium. E Ink and Toppan Printing (supplier of LCD colour filters) have announced a full colour electronic ink display, that achieves 12-bit color in a 400×300 pixel format with resolution of 83 pixels per inch, using a custom color filter from strategic partner Toppan. The color filter design has a high-brightness layout (RGBW) that preserves the paper-like [...] Fujitsu has presented a flexible colour electronic paper display, constructed of three displaying layers – red, blue, and green. Since no color filters or polarizing layers are required, it features color that is significantly more vivid than conventional reflective-type LCDs. [...] From Forbes: Hitachi Ltd. (TSE:6501) aims to start selling as early as 2006 color-capable electronic paper based on its newly developed 3mm-thick LCD. Equipped with a special panel that has more than double the surface light reflectivity of its conventional counterparts, the new LCD panel is capable of showing an image bright enough for easy viewing [...] Researchers at the HP Labs in Bristol (UK) have developed a prototype bistable passive matrix LCD display (3cm x 4cm, 128 x 96 x RGB). The development is targeted at applications such as electronic books and magazines and digital posters and photographs, rather than video displays such as TVs and computer monitors. [...] The bistability of the [...] This reviewer of the recently released Sony Librie praises the screen quality (apart from the slow refresh rate), but does not like the digital rights management (DRM) system used: Sony has opted for a DRM and distribution system for the Librie that must have been designed by the same guy who made up the guidelines for [...] Royal Philips Electronics, Sony Corporation and E Ink Corporation announced today the world’s first consumer application of an electronic paper display module in Sony’s new e-Book reader, LIBRIÉ, scheduled to go on sale in Japan in late April. [...] |
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