New and Developing Technologies

This is a focussed research on NEW technologies or Developing technologies. These innovations will be realised in the next few years, and the application for such technology is vast. The statement below is quoted off a patent document and is a copyright of inventors: WALDER, LORENZ (DE)MOELLER, MARTIN (DE)

The present invention relates to displays displaying high resolution information, in particular to electrochromic displays displaying high resolution information, either in the form of fixed or variable images. The invention also relates to methods for depositing the electrochromic materials onto the substrates and to display created by these methods. The present invention further relates to displays employing large surface area materials especially mesoporous materials. An important type of mesoporous materials are constructed of fused particles (usually nanoparticles) which are typically of a size measured in nanometers. If the fused particles are crystalline in nature (they may be amorphorous) then the material is often referred to as nanocrystalline. The mesoporous materials employed herein may be nanocrystalline but are in any case constructed of nanoparticles. Desirably the materials are nanocrystalline and are more preferably in the form of a thin film.

The invention enables the fabrication of switchable, high resolution icons or alphanumeric information using such deposition techniques. It also allows deposition of materials in a manner consistent with the fabrication of high resolution matrix addressable displays for example by the deposition of individual pixels of electrochromic material.

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