Alternative Technologies for Mobile and Wearable Displays

Abstract

While transmissive LCDs and organic light-emitting diode displays are the mainstream technologies for mobile display applications, power consumption, sunlight readability, and their trade-offs with color saturation, ambient contrast, response speed, and resolution are key issues that drive the development of alternative technologies. This chapter covers video-capable color displays based on microelectromechanical systems, electrowetting, electro-fluidity, and fieldsequential color LCDs. For always-on wearable displays, electronic book readers, and other applications with low refresh rates, low-power reflective