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Title: Electro-optical switching and memory display device

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6823623

An electro-optical display device having a housing with wall means including one transparent wall and at least one other wall. Counter electrodes are positioned on the transparent wall and display electrodes are positioned on the other wall with both electrodes in electrically conductive relationship with an electrolyte. Circuits means are connected to the display and counter electrodes to apply different predetermined control potentials between them. The display electrodes are covered with a thin electrically conductive polymer film that is characterized according to the invention by having embedded in it pigment molecules as counter ions. The display device is operable to be switched to a plurality of different visual color states at an exceptionally rapid switching rate while each of the color states is characterized by possessing good color intensity and definition.

DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76CH00016
Assignee:
Dept. of Energy
Application Number:
ON: DE84014227
OSTI ID:
6823623
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Portions are illegible in microfiche products
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English