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Friday, September 01, 2006 High-Definition TV from your Cell PhoneContinued from page 1 By Kevin Bullis
A key challenge for the fiber-based systems will be keeping manufacturing costs down. In the past, researchers have typically tried to make such devices purely out of silicon to take advantage of inexpensive manufacturing. Adding carbon fibers to the mix could increase costs. With this in mind, Thompson and Shayaan Desai, a doctoral student at Cornell who was key to creating the device, developed a manufacturing method that uses traditional silicon fabrication until the final steps, introducing the carbon fibers only at the end of the process. Still, the process is not yet reliable enough for large-scale manufacturing. (In the demonstration system they placed the fibers manually). Wu says success will depend on how much new infrastructure manufacturers have to install to incorporate the fibers. Thompson says a prototype projector should be ready within a year, with commercial products, developed by their startup, Mesmeriz, in Ithaca, NY, likely possible in three to five years. |
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BartStuck on 09/01/2006 at 7:39 AM
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pfergus on 10/12/2006 at 3:35 PM
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briang1621 on 09/01/2006 at 9:17 PM
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However, the development time for high volume production will be length (3+ years). Regardless, I see the development and commercializing of these Micro-Laser-Displays (MLDs) or Intra-LP (Integrated Laser Projector) as another promising result of the research in the MEMs Field.
Brian Glassman
Phineas on 09/04/2006 at 5:27 AM
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Those who are familiar with the hurdles will rail at my naivety, but someday they will be as common as Dick Tracey's wrist radio.
JNo on 11/14/2006 at 1:50 PM
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kkangmin3 on 11/14/2006 at 2:14 PM
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aclem88 on 11/15/2006 at 2:25 PM
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