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Samsung's New Carbon Nanotube Color E-Paper

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the in-living-color dept.

Iddo Genuth writes to tell us that Samsung and Unidym have shown the world's first carbon nanotube-based color e-paper. Interestingly, the new film is electrically conductive while remaining almost completely translucent and only 50 nanometers thick. "The company also mentions that the EPD [electrophoretic displays] has important advantages over conventional flat panel displays. EPDs have very low power consumption and bright light readability, which means that even under bright lights or sunlight, the user would be able to view the display clearly. Furthermore, since the device uses the thin CNT films, applications can include e-paper and displays with thin, flexible substrates. Power consumption is lowered due to the EPD's ability to reflect light and therefore able to preserve text or images on the display without frequently refreshing."

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  1. Colored ePaper is nice and all, but. . . by CrtxReavr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    . . . does this get us any closer to a space elevator?

    -CR

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    1. Re:Colored ePaper is nice and all, but. . . by CrtxReavr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Yes, moderate me off-topic because any mention of a space elevator in a CNT thread is completely irrelevant. . .

      -CR

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  2. Forget flexibility, I want a vivid ambiently... by distantbody · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ...lit e-reader, and eventually an ambiently lit 'e-painting' that looks just like the real thing but I can change it as often as I want.

    What the hell is up with this "http://slashdot.org/index2.pl", It is hanging my whole system for 3 seconds just for some lame heavily scripted web2.0-ness?! I want the old slashdot back! Help me tag it (which now suck though) 'slashdotsucks'!

  3. It's a series of tubes? by Toe,+The · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    With Ted Stevens'conviction in the news, the joke deserves a bit of a revival. :)

  4. Re:But... is she spry??? by rts008 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Aha! Bad Santa, 2003...I guess I dated myself with no out, or recourse!!! LOL!!!

    *Looks up 'Bad Santa' on IMDB in futile attempt to not look foolish*

    *sheepishly* 'What kind of sandwiches?' (nerd/geek mindset over-rules dignity)

    36 Years old?!?!?
    Eghads, time is flying by faster now!!

    Hey you kids, get off of my lawn!!!!....but leave me my internet connection....please!

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