Shedding light on alternative to LCD manufacturing

摘要

Replacing traditional TFT-LCD manufacturing with a lower-cost alternative that is also a more efficient technology is (forgive the pun) a bright idea that should be attractive to manufacturers. Uni-Pixel is aiming to fulfill this wish with its time-multiplexed optical shutter (TMOS), a thin-film membrane (Fig. 1) that oscillates in and out when in contact with a lightguide. Leveraging support from Philips' open innovation center in The Netherlands, Uni-Pixel recently announced the successful assembly of six display prototype devices.