SBIR/STTR Research Award
Self Powered Cholesteric Reflective Flexible Displays
Award amount
$69,996Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- KENT DISPLAYS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2004-12-09
- Contract end date
- 2005-06-09
- UEI
- M13KBK5QKF43
- Solicitation number
- 2004.3
- Topic code
- A04-033
Research abstract
A reflective display that simultaneously serves to generate power from ambient light is developed to create a flexible body worn display that does not require battery replacement or user charging. Taking advantage of optical features unique to the bistable cholesteric technology, the dual purpose reflective display makes efficient use of ambient light to convert into electrical power remaining light not reflected by the image even while the device is being operated as a display. Not possible with other known display technologies, a self powered, high resolution cholesteric display on a flexible substrate is developed for maps, text, photos and graphics at a page turn rate, on the average, of several pages per minute.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Adjustable Film for Faint Image eXtrapolation (AFFIX)
- STTR Phase II: Digital eWriter for The Classroom
- STTR Phase I: Digital eWriter for the Classroom
- STTR Phase I: Controlled Phase Separation for Graphic Smart Card Display
- STTR Phase II: Photochemically Switched Chiral Materials for Chiral Nematic Displays
Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
12 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1997–2024). Reported award amounts total $3,516,852. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Science Foundation, Department of Defense