E-Paper Displays

9Electrowetting Displays

Doeke J. Oostra

VP Business Development, Etulipa, a Miortech company, High Tech Campus 10, 5656 AE Eindhoven, The Netherlands

9.1 Overviews

Several excellent overviews on electrowetting display development have been written. Heikenfeld et al. [1] gave a detailed overview of the potential and limitations of many reflective display techniques, including electrowetting, and that same team also created an overview of application guidelines to create electrowetting displays in a scalable fabrication process [2]. In 2014 a review of paper‐like displays was written by Peng Fei Bai et al., including a description of the capability of electrowetting displays [3]. Shui et al. present an overview of reflecting technologies, including electrowetting display technology [4]. Feenstra published an overview of the history and capability of developed electrowetting displays in the Handbook of Visual Display Technology in 2016 [5]. Mugele and Heikenfeld have written a comprehensive document on the fundamental principles and practical applications of electrowetting, published in 2019 [6].

Furthermore, in 2020 the commercial status of electrowetting microfluidics status was recapped by J Li and C‐J Kim [7]. Etulipa is the first company that has developed electrowetting displays commercially used at the moment of writing this chapter, in 2020. In comparison with the above reviews, this chapter focuses on the technical considerations that determined successful introduction ...