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HP (NYSE:HPQ), the world's
largest technology company, simplifies the technology experience for consumers
and businesses with a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software,
services and IT infrastructuretoday announced the launch of a new display technology
for the personalization of consumer electronics products.
 | | HP Electronic Skins, or eSkins, is a flexible reflective color film that can be applied to a variety of consumer electronic devices for product personalization. (Photo: Business Wire) |
Electronic Skins, or eSkins, is a flexible reflective color film that can be
applied to a variety of devices – including mobile phones, digital cameras,
MP3 players, netbooks and notebooks. eSkins also can reflectively display icons
and alpha-numeric characters.
HP eSkins technology offers brand manufacturers new ways to personalize their
products with an electronically controlled color surface created using HP’s
breakthrough roll-to-roll manufacturing platform. Designed to make fine-scale
circuitry on plastic substrates, the platform processes flexible screens in
rolls rather than individual sheets, offering the potential for more cost-effective
manufacturing.
“Consumer electronics manufacturers who integrate HP eSkins technology
into future products can benefit from HP’s expertise and innovation in
ink technology and deliver print-like color performance,” said Ken Abbott,
director, Emerging Technology, Technology Development Organization, Inkjet and
Web Solutions Business, HP. “HP’s eSkins technology allows our partners
in the consumer electronics industry to further differentiate their products
by introducing a dynamic, durable and reflective digital surface to enable new
design freedom.”
This new device architecture is compatible with roll-to-roll plastic circuits
that can be combined with proprietary, electrically controllable “inks”
to achieve print-like color performance, as well as transparency. Using a technology
similar to color printing, HP is developing the capability to produce specific
“ink” colors within the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM® range. The
vibrant, print-quality colors have excellent visibility in direct sunlight and
can electronically shift into a transparent state, revealing the surface below
the eSkins film.
HP at Display Week 2009
At Display Week 2009, Tim Koch, research and development manager for the Technology
Development Organization at HP, will offer a technical presentation on the HP
roll-to-roll manufacturing platform on which eSkins technology was developed.
The presentation will take place at noon on Thursday, June 4, in Room 217A/B.
The conference, hosted by the Society for Information Display, is being held
May 31 to June 5 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio.
Additionally, HP will present two technical papers on Multicomponent Oxide
Transistors, which are enabling a new generation of display technology with
higher refresh rates, increased speeds and better stability:
- “Zinc Indium Oxide TFTs for Active-Matrix-Display Backplane”
(session 21), by Randy Hoffman, senior engineer, HP, on Wednesday, June 3,
at 10 a.m. CT in Ballroom C21
- “Fabrication of Zinc Tin Oxide TFTs by Self-Aligned Imprint Lithography
(SAIL) on Flexible Substrates” (session 58), by Warren Jackson, senior
researcher, HP, on Friday, June 5, at 9:40 a.m. CT in Ballroom C1
Posted June 1st, 2009
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