Saturday, November 15 2003
Thirty years in the making, and about to break through commercially into the retail sign market with a display technology offering by Gyricon LLC of Ann Arbor, Mich., electronic paper stands to revolutionize the way written communication is transmitted, displayed, updated and retained.
United Press International talked to e-paper expert Yu Chen about advances in the field and their future implications. Chen, principal engineer at Kovio Inc., a nanotechnology company in Sunnyvale, Calif., captured widespread attention last May when he reported in the British journal Nature the development of an electronic-ink display screen just three times the width of a human hair, flexible enough to be rolled into a tube just 4 millimeters across and viewable from almost any angle.
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