14 DAY TRIAL // Sony Corp has announced that its research team has developed a new type of miniature screen, used for mobile devices, which consumes less than 25% of the energy needed by other similar displays, informs Mobile Whack. The company added that the technology will be available for all handheld manufacturers' next year.
More precisely, the researchers modified the circuitry of the small LCD displays on cellular phones, portable game machines and other handheld devices.
"In a normal low-temperature polysilicon panel, the voltage required to drive the display circuitry fluctuates. Thus, the power supplied from the battery needs to be stepped up to 2.9 volts. By modifying the circuitry on the glass substrate that drives the display, Sony inhibited these fluctuations, enabling the circuitry to run off the battery at 1.8 volts," said Sony's representatives cited by Mobile Whack.
At the end of last month, Sony Europe launched a line of personal computer displays - the E Series - which have a monitor that extends from below the screen to the desk, hiding the control buttons within a slot on the lower right hand side. The monitors are extended and the user benefits from a ready-made area for keeping Post-it notes in one place while also sporting a handy pen holder. The E series is available in two models -17" (SDM-E76D) and 19" (SDM-E96D) size screens with both digital (DVI-D) and analogue (HD-15) interfaces as standard.
On the other hand, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world's largest provider of thin-film transistor and liquid crystal display (TFT -LCD) panels, released what is said to be the industry's first 1.98" LCD panel to achieve VGA resolution, because of the manufacturer's innovative amorphous silicon (a-Si) technology. The display is meant for mobile devices manufacturing.
Samsung's 1.98" VGA LCD is a special LCD screen with liquid crystals that provide a wide viewing angle, and with images that are very bright - 250 nit - and clean - contrast ratio of 300 to 1.