Amorphyx's AMNR-LCD Backplane Technology Featured in Research Collaboration with BOE at Display Week
LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) May 23, 2018 -- Amorphyx, an electronic device technology startup based in the US Pacific Northwest, is demonstrating the world's first use of quantum tunneling electronics to replace thin film transistors in LCD backplanes. The 5-inch diagonal 85ppi 60 Hz refresh rate color LCD integrates the fast, flexible and simple Amorphous Metal Nonlinear Resistor (AMNR) backplane circuit technology with ADvanced Super Dimension Switch (ADSDS) pixel technology owned by BOE, a global leader in semiconductor display industry as well as a supplier of IoT technologies, products and services. The combination creates an LCD with the image quality of UHD TV from a dramatically simplified backplane fabrication process.
Amorphyx replaces the semiconductor-based thin film transistors (TFT) used in today's display backplanes with quantum tunneling to improve image quality, increase fabrication plant output capacity, and reduce panel manufacturing cost. Quantum tunneling electronic devices leverage the properties of quantum physics to simplify device physical structure while increasing switching speed and eliminating leakage current. The prototype LCDs on exhibition in Display Week's I-Zone feature 65% aperture ratio and a 1000:1 contrast ratio. The AMNR technology supports over 50,000-hour display lifetimes in the UHD LCD TV application.
This breakthrough in thin film electronics technology was jointly designed and fabricated by BOE R&D Center and Amorphyx in less than 6 months. The prototypes were fabricated on G2.5 glass. Thin film depositions were performed by Amorphyx's R&D lab in Corvallis, Oregon, and BOE's laboratory line in Beijing. Amorphyx's AMNR-LCD driver system prototype features the flexibility of the AMNR technology for optimizing image quality in response to variations in manufacturing quality.
In addition to the I-Zone exhibition, Amorphyx CEO John Brewer presents the company in the afternoon "Advanced Materials/Processes Enabling Displays of the Future" session of Tuesday's Investors Conference.
About Amorphyx
Amorphyx is an innovator at the intersection of materials science and electronics for the display industry. We leverage our expertise in amorphous metals and the creation of high-quality thin films in developing the Amorphous Metal Nonlinear Resistor (AMNR) device, subpixel circuit, and manufacturing process for rigid and flexible display backplanes from smartphones to TVs and large-format panels. The AMNR leverages existing backplane manufacturing equipment in enabling display manufacturers to increase market share across their product lines. Amorphyx is a spinout from Oregon State University (oregonstate.edu) and the Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry (sustainablematerialschemistry.org), and a portfolio company at the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI). The Amorphyx logo and "Simple. For A Change." are trademarks of Amorphyx, Inc. For more information, please visit Amorphyx's website at amorphyx.com, and follow the company on Twitter at #amorphyx and on Facebook.
John Brewer, Amorphyx, Inc., http://www.amorphyx.com, +1 5034532765, [email protected]
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