Thursday, April 24, 2003
The Future of Displays
Posted by Janak Parekh in "ARTICLE" @ 09:30 AM
This is an excellent article talking about various trends in modern display technology, including 3D displays, OLEDs, LEPs, power reduction issues, and more.
"While some segments of the portable market creep along at a relatively slow pace, others move fairly quickly. Most designers have a tough time keeping up with the latest and greatest microprocessors, due to the pace they keep. But there's an area that's moving even faster—displays. The displays in today's portable systems are far more impressive than the models that shipped just a year ago, and the innovations on the horizon are quite remarkable (see, "Displays that talk," p. 30).
There's been a lot of talk recently about three-dimensional displays, as well as Organic LEDs, or OLEDs. The OLEDs could potentially put a very bright color display on a portable system, with a wide viewing angle. The knock on these displays has been that they are expensive to manufacture, and they consume lots of power. Both these issues are now being addressed, particularly the power aspect."
"While some segments of the portable market creep along at a relatively slow pace, others move fairly quickly. Most designers have a tough time keeping up with the latest and greatest microprocessors, due to the pace they keep. But there's an area that's moving even faster—displays. The displays in today's portable systems are far more impressive than the models that shipped just a year ago, and the innovations on the horizon are quite remarkable (see, "Displays that talk," p. 30).
There's been a lot of talk recently about three-dimensional displays, as well as Organic LEDs, or OLEDs. The OLEDs could potentially put a very bright color display on a portable system, with a wide viewing angle. The knock on these displays has been that they are expensive to manufacture, and they consume lots of power. Both these issues are now being addressed, particularly the power aspect."
