Electro-optical switching and memory display device

Title: Electro-optical switching and memory display device

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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.

Inventors:: Skotheim, T A; O'Grady, W E; Linkous, C A

Issue Date:: 1983-12-29

OSTI Identifier:: 6823623

Application Number:: ON: DE84014227

Assignee:: Dept. of Energy

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-76CH00016

Resource Type:: Patent

Resource Relation:: Other Information: Portions are illegible in microfiche products

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 42 ENGINEERING; DISPLAY DEVICES; DESIGN; ELECTRODES; FILMS; MEMORY DEVICES; POLYMERS; SWITCHES; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT; 420800* - Engineering- Electronic Circuits & Devices- (-1989)

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  abstractNote = {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.},

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