ELECTRONIC PAPER DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY

V.BHANUPRAKASH REDDY

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

Nalla Narsimhareddy Educational Society’s Group of Institutions

ABSTRACT: to user. This makes the surface appear visible

black and white at that spot of observation.
It is also called E-paper. It is a display
technology using organic electronics designed Electronic display paper doesn’t required
to mimic the appearance of regular ink on
additional power to maintain once the images
paper. An Electronic Paper Display is also
known as EPD. It is a display device that have been drawn. This display even doesn’t
possesses a paper-like high contrast
appearance, ultra-low power consumption, and require the backlight like conventional LCD
a thin, light form. It gives the viewer the display and it can be read in sunlight like
experience of reading from paper, while
having the power of updatable information. paper.

Unlike a conventional flat panel display, Industry-Market

which uses a backlight to illuminate its pixels,
electronic paper reflects light like ordinary
This display technology has been used by
paper and is capable of holding text and
images indefinitely without drawing electricity major e-readers like Amazon’ Kindle, Sony’s E-
or using processor power, while allowing the
paper to be changed. One important feature is reader, Kobo e-reader and Barnes and
that the state of each pixel can be maintained Noble’s Nook. Forrester Research estimates 3
without a constant supply of power.
million units of E-readers to be sold in 2009. It
Technology: predicts 900,000 devices will be sold during
the holiday season.
Electronic ink technology is a display
technology and product of E ink. it gives the
feeling of paper as it used same pigments that
is used in Printing industries. It is alternative
for LCD and in future it may be replacement
of LCD in Electronic book. It is made up of
million tiny microcapsules which are as thin as
human hair. Each microcapsule contains both
positive charged white particles and negative
charged white particles. When a positive and
negative electric field is applied,
corresponding charged particles move to the
top of the microcapsule where they became
Challenges:

Development of full colour is becoming big Future Scope:

challenges for this technology. Even though
This technology introduced new display like E
monochrome readers is growing in size, but
Ink Pearl and E Ink Triton which having high
high-quality, low-cost full colour is required by
contrast screen and a colour display that is
mobile phone display, electronic newspaper
easy read under high light. The Motorola
and magazines where advertising is revenue.
F3 was the first mobile phone to employ E Ink
Barnes and Noble's Nook also integrates a technology into its display. In addition, the
built in a colour touch screen for navigation, Samsung Alias 2 uses this technology as the
the first in its kind, as E-ink so far does not display on the buttons change. With
provide colour features cooperating research it will make more
feasible and commercially viable E reader.
The research is still going on to use LCD
Like the flexible display will result in lighter E-
technology like red, green and blue (RGB)
reader with biggerdisplay as Flexible display is
filters and other pixel technology to improve
lighter than present electronic display
colour.
technology used material.
Electronic paper technologies have a very low
Electronic paper could offer a flat and thin
refresh rate comparing with other low-power
alternative to existing key fob tokens for data
display technologies used in LCD. This
security.
prevents producers from implementing
sophisticated interactive applications like
those which are possible on handheld
Conclusion:
computers like PDA, tablet pc and notepad.
This technology will be replacement of the
The future versions will integrate Electronic
paper which may result less trees cut. So
display with bendable plastic electronics -they
improvement of this technology will create
can be bent, rolled and folded like a sheet of
greener planet.
paper

Flexible display is being developed by several

companies including a Philips spin-off
(Polymer Vision), Epson, and Plastic Logic. The
Taiwan-based Industrial Technology Research
Institute or ITRI is working on high quality
Flexible display with flexible material.