Pioneer in virtual imaging technologies and OLED mircodisplays, eMagin has displayed its latest high contrast, low power VGA OLED-XL microdisplay at the SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing Conference and Exposition conducted from 25 to 27 April,2011 in Orlando, Florida.
The VGA OLED microdisplay is a 15 µ pixel microdisplay with a voltage drive pixel method based on the company’s True Black technology. It offers a 0.5" diagonal monochrome display that consumes less than 60 mW of power, which is half of the power demand for eMagin’s SVGA+ OLED-XL microdisplay. It delivers superior quality images with contrast rations higher than 10,000:1.
For the first time, eMagin is employing pulse width modulation pixel hold times to nearly eradicate motion objects in video images, with an additional advantage of offering superior gray level response and dimming range for night vision and low light applications. The complete 680x520 pixel arrangement can be utilized for electronic arrangement of a 640x480 or VGA window with the capability to shift the image up to 20 pixels vertically and/or horizontally, or the complete arrangement can utilize entire pixels for optimum resolution display.
A 30-bit digital RGB interface drives the VGA OLED-XL microdisplay, which comes in color and monochrome white. The monochrome yellow and green editions will be released later in 2011.
According to Andrew Sculley, who serves as President and Chief Executive Officer at eMagin, the latest VGA OLED-XL is ideal for most of the sensors utilized in a wide range of sophisticated commercial, industrial and defense applications such as industrial thermal imaging cameras, laser target designators and thermal weapon sights.