World’s First Full-Color, Flexible, Plasmonic Skin-like Display
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Introducing the e-skin display technology, worlds first flexible full color display, a few microns thick that allows  you to change the color and patterns instantly.

Imagine a soldier

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​Imagine a soldier who can change the color and pattern of his camouflage uniform from woodland green to desert tan at will. Or an office worker who could do the same with his necktie. Is someone at the wedding reception wearing the same dress as you? No problem – switch yours to a different color in the blink of an eye. We have developed a ground breaking e-skin display that makes this possible.

Latest News
-Dynamically Tunable Single Pixel Color published in Nature, May 2017 
- Dr. Apostolos Voutsas (Tolis),  joins e-skin Displays Team as Director of Display Engineering (consulting), July 2017
- e-skin Displays is 1st place winner at Merck's Display Plasmonic Futures award, 2016, see award

“Inspired by nature”​

We have developed a ground breaking technique (patent pending) for creating a  full-color, flexible thin-film reflective display, which we call e-skin display. Traditional displays like those on a mobile phone require a light source, filters and a glass plates. But animals like chameleons, octopuses and squids are born with thin, flexible, color-changing displays that don't need a light source - their skin. complex body contour, and it's stretchable and flexible. The ultrathin e-skin display doesn't need its own light source, rather, it reflects the ambient light around it and uses a small voltage to change the color reflected across the  entire  visible spectrum. The display is just a few microns thick; in comparisonhuman hair is 100 microns thick. The applications range fromwearables like clothing, tvs, readers, advertising, DoD related applications, etc

The “Dynamic” Advantage  
Improves  DPI/PPI 3x as compared to a iPhone plus

​To create ever higher resolution displays, pixel dimensions have been continually shrinking; requiring smaller, more expensive and challenging to fabricate TFT arrays.  Imagine improving a display’s resolution three-fold with the same back panel technology already in mass production.  e-skin Display’s patent pending color changing nano-surface promises just this.  By implementing state-of-the-art liquid crystal and plasmonics research, the color reflected from the nanostructured surface can be tuned across the visible spectrum as a function of voltage.  This eliminates the need for static color filters and the standard subpixel display architecture.  With a demonstrated 1,814 dots per inch (iPhone 6s Plus = 401 DPI)  with zero improvements or changes to existing TFT technology, we aim to make dynamic pixels the next industry standard.
Our prototype resolution is 3x times, 1814 ppi

Demo

The demo video you see is a video of a plasmonic nano display prototype that is 1 mm x 0.75 mm in dimension, magnified 10 times.  The famous Afghan Girl image was rendered on the nano display and the Afghan Girl image colors were changed by applying a small voltage. The video of the changing colors was recorded using microscopic photography. 

Notice the  density of  pixels  in the 1mm square surface area, about 1814 pixels per inch. Each pixel is 10 microns x 10 microns. In comparison, the IPhone pixel is about 76 microns x 76 microns.

Note: The video is pixlated as it is magnified 10 times and recorded using a microscope


​Below are two images,  the prototype on glass, and the other on Flexible PET (polyethylene terephthalate). The glass prototype has the famous Afghan girl image printed on the prototype and can change colors with the application of a small voltage, see demo video above shot through a microscope. The flexible prototype shows the letters UCF rendered on a material similar to a water bottle and shows that the prototype can be rendered on flexible/contoured surfaces. It also changes color with the application of a small voltage.

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