26.1: Invited Paper: Driving mirasol® Displays: Addressing Methods and Control Electronics

• Published in: SID International Symposium Digest of technical papers Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 330 - 333
• Main Authors: Martin, Russel A., Lewis, Alan, Mignard, Marc, Chuei, Nao, van Lier, Rob, Govil, Alok, Todorovich, Mark, Aflatooni, Koorosh, Gally, Brian, Chui, Clarence
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01-06-2011
• ISSN: 0097-966X; 2168-0159
• DOI: 10.1889/1.3621313

A mirasol display uses optical interference based MEMS pixels with inherent hysteresis and is therefore passively addressable with a near zero power hold state. This paper describes methods of addressing such a display including a method providing low power and fast addressing. The correlation between pixel optical state and capacitance allows automated tuning and invisible adjustment of the drive voltages during operation. We further describe display drive circuit architecture showing the IC configuration for a mirasol display.