Front-lit reflective display device and method of front-lighting reflective display

This application describes a front-lit reflective display assembly including a reflective display and an illumination article for front-lighting the display when the article is optically coupled to a light source. The illumination article includes a variable index light extraction layer optically co...

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Hauptverfasser: SHERMAN, AUDREY ANNE, SOLOMONSON STEVEN D, STAY MATTHEW S, HAO, ENCAI, SCHAFFER, KEVIN ROMAN, YANG, ZHAOHUI, THOMPSON, DAVID SCOTT, WHEATLEY JOHN A, WOODY JOSEPH W, PEKUROVSKY, MIKHAIL L, MEIS, MICHAEL ALAN, BRYAN, WILLIAM JAMES
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Sprache:chi ; eng
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Zusammenfassung:This application describes a front-lit reflective display assembly including a reflective display and an illumination article for front-lighting the display when the article is optically coupled to a light source. The illumination article includes a variable index light extraction layer optically coupled to a lightguide. The variable index light extraction layer has first and second regions, the first region comprising nanovoided polymeric material, the second region comprising the nanovoided polymeric material and an additional material, the first and second regions being disposed such that for light being transported at a supercritical angle in the lightguide, the variable index light extraction layer selectively extracts the light in a predetermined way based on the geometric arrangement of the first and second regions. Front-lit reflective display devices including the front-lit reflective display assembly optically coupled to a light source are also described.