Quarterly Question
The most frequently asked question of Kent Displays ChLCD products is: “How long will an image remain without power ?”
The answer is simple: Indefinitely!
Of course “indefinitely” is not a scientific unit of measure but in an effort to support our claim our trade show exhibit includes a display that was written to over ten years ago. Its image is just as readable today as it was the day in 1994 when it was last updated.
If you have a question regarding Kent Displays' products or technology please submit your questions . We will select a question from those submitted and publish it along with the answer in a future newsletter.
Announcements
Society of Information Displays International Symposium 2005
Kent Displays, Inc. will exhibit at SID 2005, the Society of Information Displays International Symposium, Seminar & Exhibition at the Hynes Convention Center Boston, Massachusetts May 22nd – 27th 2005. Our standard product line as well as our latest developments will be on display at Booth #1919.
SID 2005
Presenting: Single-Substrate Encapsulated Cholesteric LCDs: Coatable, Drapable and Foldable
Presenter: Irina Shiyanovskaya, PhD
May 26, 2005
2:00 to 3:20 PM
Room 302
Boston, MA
SID 2005
Presenting: Flexible Encapsulated Cholesteric LCDs by Polymerization-Induced Phase Separation
Presenter: Tod Schneider
May 26, 2005
2:00 to 3:20 PM
Room 302
Boston, MA
eBooks in Education Conference
Presenting: ChLCD for Ebooks in the Education Market
Presenter: Joel Domino
April 14, 2005
McGraw-Hill Auditorium
New York, NY
Gordon Research Conference, Liquid Crystals
Presenting: Phase Inversion in Cholesteric Emulsions
Presenter: Irina Shiyanovskaya, PhD
June 20, 2005
Colby-Sawyer College
New London, NH
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Editor's Notes
Welcome to the Volume 1, issue 2 of Kent Displays, Inc. Quarterly Newsletter: The Liquid Crystal Twist. As the world leader in the research, development and manufacture of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Display products, it is our hope to bring you interesting and useful information regarding ChLCD technology, products, distributors/representatives and customers each quarter.
In the News
1/8 VGA 240 x 160 ChLCD with on board controller and SPI is added to Kent Displays' list of standard products.
The addition of the 1/8 VGA “No Power” ChLCD with on board controller and Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) to the list of standard products represents an innovative combination of a “No Power” ChLCD with its inherently superior optical characteristics and a simple interface. The resultant product reduces display integration time and thus end product time to market.
The single board display solution features an embedded controller that generates the unique ChLCD drive waveforms, provides automatic temperature compensation while using a minimal number of host I/O resources. The interface is used to control all display operations including the downloading of images to the triggering of display updates.
The two board Development Kit is $199.00 and consists of 1/8 VGA display module with onboard controller with SPI and development platform module. The JTAG port can be used to program the Development Kit controller for other applications. All cables, AC adapter and battery pack are included. Available late May, 2005.
The 1/8 VGA ChLCD module is $48.00 at 1,000 pieces and options include heater and frontlight. Availability is July 1, 2005. Contact sales for more information.
Electronic Products awards Kent Displays’ ChLCD Product of the Year Award.
The editors of Electronic Products have selected Kent Displays, Inc. Cholesteric LCD as recipient of the 2004 Product of the Year Award. The selection process is based on “advancements in technology or its application, a decided innovation in design, or substantial gain in price-performance” according to Todd Christianson of Electronic Products. For further details on how Kent Displays' monochrome VGA ChLCD in an Ebook application met the editor’s selection criterion look here .
Kent Displays , Inc. announces it has become a member of the Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University.
The Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University (ASU) is a university, industry and government collaborative effort with a goal of developing high performance, commercially-viable, conformal and flexible full color displays that are lightweight, rugged, low power, and low cost. Kent Displays cholesteric liquid crystal display technology is ideally suited for the task.
As a member of the FDC, Kent Displays will integrate its cholesteric display technology with flexible active backplanes to create the first flexible active matrix cholesteric displays in the world. The integration involves the co-development of active backplane technologies as well as development and integration of flexible encapsulated cholesteric display technologies. Kent Displays’ technical staff and the scientists and engineers at ASU have been working together for nearly a year to achieve these goals. Successful integration will pave the way for the for use of flexible active matrix cholesteric displays in military and commercial applications.
Kent Displays is Giving Away iPods through Daily Drawings at this Years' Shows.
2005 Embedded Systems Conference West
iPod winners are:
Neil Wyper of Carmanah Technologies,
John Chen of Abbott Laboratories,
Timothy Higgins of HACH Company.
iPod Drawing at SID 200
Drop your business card in the fish bowl at our booth, #1919, for a chance to win an iPod. Drawings will be held daily. Winner need not be present. You can also get an extra chance by entering your business card information electronically .
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