Dynamic Adaptive Display System for Electrowetting Displays Based on Alternating Current and Direct Current.

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Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Information Materials and Technology & Institute of Electronic Paper Displays, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China.

Published: October 2022

As a representative of the new reflective display technology, electrowetting display (EWD) technology can be used as a video playback display device due to its fast response characteristics. Direct current (DC) driving brings excellent reflectivity, but static images cannot be displayed continually due to charge trapping, and it can cause afterimages when playing a dynamic video due to contact angle hysteresis. Alternating current (AC) driving brings a good dynamic video refresh ability to EWDs, but that can cause flickers. In this paper, a dynamic adaptive display model based on thin film transistor-electrowetting display (TFT-EWD) was proposed. According to the displayed image content, the TFT-EWD display driver was dynamically adjusted by AC and DC driving models. A DC hybrid driving model was suitable for static image display, which could effectively suppress oil backflow and achieve static image display while ensuring high reflectivity. A source data non-polarized model (SNPM) is an AC driving model which was suitable for dynamic video display and was proposed at the same time. Compared with DC driving, it could obtain smooth display performance with a loss of about 10 absorbance units (A.U.) of reflective luminance, which could solve the flicker problem. With the DC hybrid driving model, the ability to continuously display static images could be obtained with a loss of 2 (A.U.) of luminance. Under the AC driving in SNPM, the reflected luminance was as high as 67 A.U., which was 8 A.U. higher than the source data polarized model (SPM), and it was closer to the reflected luminance under DC driving.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9610002PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi13101791DOI Listing

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