E-paper Forum » E-paper Developers and Manufacturers » color-changing materials for e-paper?

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   Optomistic
   

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   Well, well, what do we have here? Canadian researchers have made great progress into displays that use color-changing materials called photonic crystals. These crystals change colors when a different voltage is applied to them...

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   Mahatma_Gandhi
   

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   Wow... this could be applied for e-Paper right?

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   Kosher
   

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   yup! it would bring brighter, more flexible color displays to e-book readers and other devices!

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   Quiet
   

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   that means that e-book readers won't be limited to using e-ink :) That's great news!

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   butevil
   

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   for what it's worth, e-ink already has a color display

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   Quiet
   

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   butevil said:
   for what it's worth, e-ink already has a color display

   yeah, but e-ink's color displays might not be as good, nor as vibrant or as bright as these crystals can produce.

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   OutofthisWorld
   

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   I do hope they get over the stumbling blocks. I heard that the rate of color change is quite slow, and that the colors are not really that many

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   colostrum
   

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   Kosher said:
   yup! it would bring brighter, more flexible color displays to e-book readers and other devices!

   This is something I'd like to see... finally technology that puts e-paper at par with LCDs in terms of color management and display.

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   colostrum
   

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   Quiet said:

   yeah, but e-ink's color displays might not be as good, nor as vibrant or as bright as these crystals can produce.

   I agree... E-ink's resolution and colors suck... BIG TIME

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    athalia
    

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    that's what the update is all about really. The researchers have already made the color change faster and the spectrum goes from UV to infrared.

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    CoolMountain
    

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    Mahatma_Gandhi said:
    Wow... this could be applied for e-Paper right?

    Actually, I think the technology was developed for e-paper. So yes.

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    CoolMountain
    

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    OutofthisWorld said:
    I do hope they get over the stumbling blocks. I heard that the rate of color change is quite slow, and that the colors are not really that many

    They actually found a way to make the color change faster. :)

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    CoolMountain
    

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    athalia said:
    that's what the update is all about really. The researchers have already made the color change faster and the spectrum goes from UV to infrared.

    you're right! a faster rate of color change and a wider spectrum of colors.

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