Electrophoretic

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East Asian giants progress flexible e-paper displays, but Europe first to commercialise

IDTechEx attended the recent Flexible Displays Conference in Phoenix. Read our review here - part 1.

A leading innovator of thin-film transistor liquid crystal display technology announced today that it will debut the world's highest resolution 14.3-inch flexible color E-paper display next week.

Sony has now come up with their next generation 'electronic paper' display - PRS-505 which delivers an even faster response and contrast ratio, making it easier for getting stuck into a good read on bright sunny days due to its electrophoretic display.

Microencapsulated electrophoretic ink displays are now in volume production. For example, E ink FPL is being coated in Roll to roll (R2R) production kilometers at a time, segmented displays on plastic substrates are in volume production and glass TFT displays are in volume production.

The Sony LIBRIe

Mr Robert Sprague, VP and CTO Gyricon, United States at Printed Electronics USA 2005