Liquid crystal displays, with their wafer-thin profile, superb optical performance and low power consumption are so familiar in today’s world that it is easy to lose sight of the enormous amount of scientific research that underpins them.
The requirements for tomorrow’s displays are for even thinner profile, longer battery life, the use of environmentally benign materials, intuitive interfaces and dramatic new visual experiences such as 3D. These challenges continue to inspire a worldwide community of physicists, materials scientists, software programmers and electronics engineers.
For more than a decade Sharp Laboratories in Oxford has been at the forefront of displays research with a team made up of people from areas as diverse as optical simulation, image processing, nano technology and circuit design. We have published papers at numerous international conferences, filed patents on over a hundred inventions and seen our technology go into numerous products that have sold in their millions. Some of the R&D themes the team is currently pursuing include:
- 3D Displays
- Interactive Sensor Displays
- Dual View Displays
- Veil View Displays
- Displays with Integrated Drivers
