Here's a new one to add to the display technology lexicon -- TMOS, which stands for "time multiplexed optical shutter," is being developed by UniPixel in its Opcuity products. The technology is interesting enough to get
Samsung to get in on, and the promise to provide better image quality over LCD and
OLED displays while being up to 60-percent cheaper to manufacture than LCDs makes it easy to see why. We haven't even seen a prototype of this technology, but we're able to piece together that the display centers around UniPixel's Opcuity "Active Layer Film," basically an array of micro-electrical mechanical systems (MEMS) shutters that sit in front of the illumination source that will strobe between red, green and blue to produce color; basically, it's a bit of
DLP (MEMS and persistence of vision) combined with LCD technology (flat backlight with a shutter). Sounds great, but like we said, it's still in the labs. Not to be naysayers, but one challenge will be keeping the MEMS shutters functional in larger displays -- a 50-inch display has pixels about 0.5-mm in size, and MEMS really do rely on the "micro" part of their name to work.
[Thanks, Vanbrothers]
Read - Samsung and UniPixel press release
Read - UniPixel technology
posted Feb 4th 2009 5:49PM
Five years from now we will laugh at how old this technology is.
I don't know why samsung is being so stubborn about OLED. They should be more diligent with the OLED technology. One, it's already on the market plus with samsung competition it would bring prices down significantly. First gen OLED technology already destroys most LCD's in terms of picture quality, making further improvements to the technology would make it even more viable and probably better in picture quality than this technology.
Millions of moving parts, expensive LED edge lighting, patterned light guide and electronics backplane, 57% optical efficiency, tight manufacturing tolerances for the air-gap, the list goes on and on. Good luck getting that out the door! Sorry but the future belongs to emissive technologies like OLED.
Solid state, direct pixel light source FTW!!!
Drastically cutting manufacturing costs will lead to much lower prices for the comsumers.
UniPixel's TMOS(TM) display technology is targeted to leverage a subset of the current LCD manufacturing process, offering the potential of lowering the bill of materials manufacturing costs by as much as 60% in some cases, while improving performance characteristics including lowering power consumption and increasing brightness over existing LCD and OLED flat panel display technologies.
Sounds great but. It's easy to talk the talk but let's see some company, any company, walk the walk. SED. OLED. now this. How about somebody bring a new and innovative technology to the market and actually produce a better mouse trap at a better price. To me 60% lower manufacturing cost can mean two things. Lower product pricing or higher profit margins for the manufacture. I wonder which we will end up with? Duh!
60% less production cost compared to lcd.
90% less power consumption compared to lcd
61% light output compared to 5% that of lcd
4500:1 contrast ratio compared to 1000:1 for lcd
< 2 micro-second refresh rate
150 frames per second
170 deg viewing angle
single pixel for all colors
simple manufacturing process
extended life
ability to convert lcd manufacturing plants to make tmos
...the list goes on...
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