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UniPixel claims an edge on LCDs
"Our ability to realize the engineering prototypes in a reasonable time frame is enhanced tremendously by our relationship with PARC"
Nicolas Mokhoff, EE Times, March 15, 2007
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A novel display technology that claims to be simpler in construction than an LCD and better performing than organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) or plasma appears to be inching closer to commercialization. UniPixel Displays Inc. developed its Time Multiplexed Optical Shutter (TMOS) technology to address display requirements in avionics applications, particularly heads-down cockpit deployments.
UniPixel has been working with Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Lockheed and Sandia National Laboratories in developing TMOS, said Tassone, who discussed the technology at the recent USDC/Needham displays conference in New York.
"Our ability to realize the engineering prototypes in a reasonable time frame is enhanced tremendously by our relationship with PARC," said UniPixel president Reed Killion.
Traditional displays use three closely spaced dots displaying different intensities of red, green and blue to create what the human eye perceives as a single color, in a technique called spatial additive color. UniPixel's TMOS, by contrast, is based on temporal additive color.
According to Killion, a UniPixel display consists of just six layers, compared with 15 for plasma and 30 for LCDs, and takes only 12 steps to manufacture, versus 128 steps for an LCD.
UniPixel is so sure TMOS will have the edge over the entrenched flat-panel technologies that it expects to fight LCDs and plasma for a piece of a market that industry analysts peg at $107.4 billion by 2008.
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