New display technology can replace liquid crystal displays and halve power consumption – T3N – Digital Pioneers

What will the TV screen look like in the future? (Photo: Stokkete/Shutterstock)

LCD panels are commercially available in many large screen televisions. In combination with polarizing filters and LED backlighting, LCD (liquid crystal display) technology is built into many TV models, as high-end TVs have long been equipped with expensive dot-matrix displays or OLED panels.

Australian researchers hypothesize that LCD technology will soon reach the end of its potential. “The performance of traditional performances has reached its peak and is unlikely to improve significantly in the future due to many limitations,” Dragomir Nechev, a professor of physics at the Australian National University, told the online publication. New Atlas.

That’s why he and his team researched a new technology for flat screens with high resolutions and fast refresh rates – and now the first successes can be reported. “We designed and developed surface pixels that may be ideal for next-generation displays,” Nechev said. He stressed that, unlike liquid crystals, these pixels do not require polarized light to work, “which cuts the display’s power consumption in half.”

The new pixels are made of silicon, “which brings with it a long lifespan, unlike the organic materials required by current alternatives,” said Professor Andrey Miroshnichenko of the University of New South Wales Canberra.

The silicon cells are said to be 200 times thinner than a human hair. This technology results in sub-millisecond response times – that’s ten times faster than the human eye can register.

According to the researchers, the new technology could make it possible to produce flat screen displays thinner with a resolution 100 times higher than current LCD screens, while at the same time significantly reducing power consumption.

Meta surfaces will now be enhanced with the help of AI. said the principal investigator on the project, Mohsen Rahmani, professor of engineering from Nottingham Trent University.

As the most important aspect of the research, it confirms that the new technology “could lead to a significant reduction in energy consumption” – excellent news given the multiplicity of screens and televisions in use every day around the world.

LCD TVs with a screen diagonal of 40 inches are consumed loudly Firefox Currently averaging around 100 watts per hour.