IMOD Display
From Kb_JMY(晉明夷)
IMOD Display -- Interferometric Modulator Display
Major Features & Benefits
- power consumption: 6% of a mobile phone (vs 50% if LCD display)
- cell switching time: about 10us (vs 100ms if ePaper | 1000times faster than LCD)
- Life time: 12 Billion switching times or 7year continuous use
- Reflective Type: like ePaper, 在陽光下更清晰、顏色更鮮艷
Market Size
- For mobile phone: 1Billion mobile phone per year
- Nokia: 350M phones produced per year (or 1M phones/day)
Inventors
- Mark Miles
- MIT 電機系
- 1984 Summer vacation -> ideas about IMOD display after awaring such an equipment: Fabry-Perot Interferometer
- Eric J. Larson
- Mark Miles' MIT classmate
- Iridigm
- -> company formed by Mark Miles & Eric Larson
- -> later acquired by Qualcomm 高通公司
- -> Now becomes: 高通光電科技事業發展部 Qualcomm MEMS Technologies
- 副總裁 凱西 (James Cathey)
- Developing the brand -- IMOD + MEMS = Mirasol
- collaborate with 台灣 元太科技 (the manufacturer in ePaper & LCD)
- Ubixon 優比森 -- 南韓電子產品公司
- -> 配有 IMOD Display 的藍牙耳機
Keywords
- 藍默蝶 Blue Morpho
- 法布拉．培若干涉儀 (Fabry-Perot Interferometer) or 標準具(Eatlon)
