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c Breakthrough May Lead to Disposable E-Readers
Andrew Steckl is an Ohio Eminent Scholar at UC's College of Engineering and Applied Science. His latest research involves advances in display technology that achieves electrowetting on paper as opposed to glass.
Credit: University of Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati researchers have developed a low-cost, paper-based, disposable e-reader. The researchers say the paper could be used as a flexible substrate for an electrowetting (EW) device. EW can display content such as text, photographs, and video by applying an electric field to colored droplets within a display. The technology was developed by Cincinnati professor Andrew Steckl and doctoral student Duk Young Kim. "One of the main goals of e-paper is to replicate the look and feel of actual ink on paper," Steckl says.
The researchers found that the new EW technology performed similarly to glass-based devices. "With the right paper, the right process, and the right device fabrication technique, you can get results that are as good as you would get on glass, and our results are good enough for a video-style e-reader," Steckl says.
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