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

Abstract

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.

5.1: Invited Paper: A 5.7″ Color Mirasol® XGA Display For High Performance Applications

“…To ensure that mirasol® displays consume as little power as possible, a low power drive scheme has been developed [4]. This scheme is a derivative of conventional passive matrix methods although in combination with bi-stable IMOD elements it scales to large format displays without sacrificing image quality.…”