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Digital television displays are the most significant and growing arena for MEMS, courtesy of Texas Instruments, which dominates the optical MEMS market for digital displays with its digital light processing technology, or DLP.
The heart of DLP is an array of up to 2 million hinge-mounted aluminum micromirrors, known as digital micromirror devices, or DMDs. The mirrors--each about 14 microns wide, or one-fifth the width of a human hair--reflect a digital image from a light source onto a screen. The mirrors tilt toward or away from the light source, creating light or dark pixels; white light, such as a florescent light, is projected through a color wheel to create color.
TI began developing its DLP technology in its research lab 16 years ago, according to DMD program manager Mike Mignardi. After demonstrating its reliability in 1990, the company established an internal business unit, selling its first product in 1996. TI developed DLP technology from in-house resources, and it remains a vertically integrated process within TI, from production of the micromirrors and electronics to product testing.
DLP technology today accounts for one in five very large (more than 40-inch diagonal) digital TV displays, where it competes with more established technologies such as the venerable cathode ray tube as well as liquid crystal and plasma displays, and new technologies such as organic light-emitting diodes. And it's an important and growing market. Overall, digital TV sales are projected to grow from about 4.3 million this year to 9 million units in 2007. Other major markets for MEMS displays are DLP front projectors and commercial cinema.
TI's Mignardi argues that DLP technology is price competitive with other digital TV display technologies and also offers extremely sharp images with no burn-in or fading of the screens. TI is launching a new generation of DLP technology in the fourth quarter of this year that uses solid-state, light-emitting diodes instead of conventional white light, enabling displays for portable display uses.
taken from new.com.com
I own Mems.TV.
I believe its going to be big.
You can search for mems tv you get a lot of results talking abt mems being the next things after lcd and ctr
Digital television displays are the most significant and growing arena for MEMS, courtesy of Texas Instruments, which dominates the optical MEMS market for digital displays with its digital light processing technology, or DLP.
The heart of DLP is an array of up to 2 million hinge-mounted aluminum micromirrors, known as digital micromirror devices, or DMDs. The mirrors--each about 14 microns wide, or one-fifth the width of a human hair--reflect a digital image from a light source onto a screen. The mirrors tilt toward or away from the light source, creating light or dark pixels; white light, such as a florescent light, is projected through a color wheel to create color.
TI began developing its DLP technology in its research lab 16 years ago, according to DMD program manager Mike Mignardi. After demonstrating its reliability in 1990, the company established an internal business unit, selling its first product in 1996. TI developed DLP technology from in-house resources, and it remains a vertically integrated process within TI, from production of the micromirrors and electronics to product testing.
DLP technology today accounts for one in five very large (more than 40-inch diagonal) digital TV displays, where it competes with more established technologies such as the venerable cathode ray tube as well as liquid crystal and plasma displays, and new technologies such as organic light-emitting diodes. And it's an important and growing market. Overall, digital TV sales are projected to grow from about 4.3 million this year to 9 million units in 2007. Other major markets for MEMS displays are DLP front projectors and commercial cinema.
TI's Mignardi argues that DLP technology is price competitive with other digital TV display technologies and also offers extremely sharp images with no burn-in or fading of the screens. TI is launching a new generation of DLP technology in the fourth quarter of this year that uses solid-state, light-emitting diodes instead of conventional white light, enabling displays for portable display uses.
taken from new.com.com
I own Mems.TV.
I believe its going to be big.
You can search for mems tv you get a lot of results talking abt mems being the next things after lcd and ctr
