Khosro Zangeneh Kamali, PhD scholar at the Australian National University, with the team's electrically programmable silicon metasurfaces proof of conceptKhosro Zangeneh Kamali, Australian National University
Posted on 02/24/2023 11:37:38 AM PST by Red Badger
A research team from the UK's Nottingham Trent University, the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales Canberra has developed a proof-of-concept display technology that could replace the LCD panels common to many of today's big-screen TVs.
Though some modern high-end televisions may sport quantum-dot displays or OLED panels, many of the cheaper models available will use LCD (liquid crystal display) technology, polarizing filters and LED backlighting. But the researchers say that the limit has been reached for development of this kind of technology.
"The capability of conventional displays has reached its peak and is unlikely to significantly improve in the future due to multiple limitations," said Dragomir Neshev, Professor in Physics at the Australian National University. "Today there is a quest for fully solid-state flat display technology with a high resolution and fast refresh rate. We have designed and developed metasurface pixels that can be ideal for the next-generation display. Unlike liquid crystals, our pixels do not require polarized lights for functioning, which will halve screens’ energy consumption."
To control individual pixels at a high modulation rate, the proof-of-concept platform employs transparent conductive oxide to serve as an electrically driven heater that can quickly change the optical properties of the silicon metasurface cells, which are reported to be 100 times thinner than liquid crystal cells or 200 times thinner than a human hair. The technology results in response times of under a millisecond – 10 times faster than the detection limit of the human eye.
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Khosro Zangeneh Kamali, PhD scholar at the Australian National University, with the team's electrically programmable silicon metasurfaces proof of conceptKhosro Zangeneh Kamali, Australian National University
Tech PING!..............
So...a 65” flat screen tv that will weigh around 5 lbs?
Oh good! I was getting worried that the technology that’s currently being used to pushed the liberal’s agendas to our homes would somehow slow down. Glad that’s not the case! /s
Cool.
I’d like to watch a TV show about this ... it would be so meta.
“will halve [LCD] screens’ energy consumption”
I’ve got an ancient Panasonic PLASMA TV in our living room which consumes the power of a locomotive. But it’s hardly ever on, so not a big deal. Besides, this time of year, all that heat does not go to waste. Maybe I’m getting windmill electrons to power the TV which means my natural-gas fired furnace doesn’t run as much. Libs would be ecstatic.
My Panasonic did the same. I just used the heat another way. Set up fans to blow it around. It got a great picture too, but you did not want to leave it on while nobody was watching.
The Panasonic plasma picture is still great and the TV must be 15 years old now. It was our first flat screen TV after retiring our 20 year old conventional 27 inch Sony Trinitron which had a great picture, too. We’ve been here since 1983 and have had only two televisions! I had one small repair done on the plasma TV maybe six or seven years ago.
That is really remarkable.
I don’t like to talk about how old my TV is.
If I do, it will probably quit working tomorrow.
LOL...yes, they are always listening. In fact, Hal is probably sending it this conversation.
I’ll bet this guy gets more ass than a toilet seat!
imagine how much ass a toilet seat gets when stacy abrams plops down on one...
We had a 36” Toshiba CRT tv. Damn thing weighed over 200lbs. We had it for, I don’t know, 15 years or so. When we moved, we had junk haulers come and get it. It was going downhill, anyway.
After the move almost 7 years ago, we bought a Samsung 55” 4K flat screen.
It’s heavy, but it weighs a fraction of what the tube behemoth did. I marvel at the picture even now.
I can’t imagine what this newer tech is gonna even cost when it’s available.
Put a chip in your eyeball.
It will receive the TV signal.
Who needs ‘big-screen’?
Wow, I thought our 27” CRT Sony was heavy (must have been close to 100 pounds). That Toshiba weighs like a small car. We didn’t go that big because we had an old-fashioned TV cabinet armoire style with doors to cover the TV and side units with shelves and closed door lowers for electronics. It looked real nice in the living room. Then I bought a low TV stand with electronics and the big, honking plasma on top of it. The living room doesn’t look anywhere near as nice as it used to.
I marvel when I walk through Target or Best Buy or Walmart and see these incredible 65 inch TVs at almost give-away prices. Hard to believe how far we’ve come with this tech.
I remember 20 or more years ago when all the hubbub started about the coming “flat screen TVs.” It always seemed to be years away, but here we are.
Thank goodness for streaming services because I can watch what I want when I want it. I never watch any network tv at all.
“I never meta–display I didn’t like…”
Thank goodness for streaming services because I can watch what I want when I want it. I never watch any network tv at all.
Same here!
Breakfast=ruined! Thanks, man! Never thought of it like that. Lolol!
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