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Wirelessly powered bistable display tags

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UbiComp '13: Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2493432.2493516

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Paper displays have a number of attractive properties, in particular the ability to present visual information perpetually with no power source. However, they are not digitally updatable or re-usable. Bistable display materials, such as e-paper, promise to enable displays with the best properties of both paper and electronic displays. However, rewriting a pixelated bistable display requires substantial energy, both for communication and for setting the pixel states.

This paper describes a bistable display tag that, from an energy standpoint, is capable of perpetual operation. A commercial off-the-shelf NFC-enabled phone generates RF signals carrying both the information and energy necessary to update the display. After the update is complete, the display continues to present the information with no further power input. We present one example implementation, a companion display for a mobile phone that can be used to capture and preserve a screenshot. We also discuss other potential applications of energy neutral bistable display tags.

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September 2013

846 pages

ISBN:9781450317702

DOI:10.1145/2493432

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ETH Zurich, CH
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Università della Svizzera italiana, CH
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University of Tokyo, JP

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