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WO2025136446A1
WO2025136446A1 PCT/US2024/034281 US2024034281W WO2025136446A1 WO 2025136446 A1 WO2025136446 A1 WO 2025136446A1 US 2024034281 W US2024034281 W US 2024034281W WO 2025136446 A1 WO2025136446 A1 WO 2025136446A1
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  • An electrophoretic display changes color by modifying the position of a charged colored particle with respect to a light-transmissive viewing surface.
  • electrophoretic displays are typically referred to as “electronic paper” or “ePaper” because the resulting display has high contrast and is sunlight-readable, much like ink on paper.
  • Electrophoretic displays have enjoyed widespread adoption in eReaders, such as the AMAZON KINDLE® because the electrophoretic displays provide a book-like reading experience, use little power, and allow a user to carry a library of hundreds of books in a lightweight handheld device.
  • electrophoretic displays included only two types of charged color particles, black and white.
  • color as used herein includes black and white.
  • the white particles are often of the light scattering type, and comprise, e.g., titanium dioxide, while the black particle are absorptive across the visible spectrum, and may comprise carbon black, or an absorptive metal oxide, such as copper chromite.
  • a black and white electrophoretic display only requires a light-transmissive electrode at the viewing surface, a back electrode, and an electrophoretic medium including oppositely charged white and black particles.
  • the white particles move to the viewing surface
  • the black particles move to the viewing surface.
  • the back electrode includes controllable regions (pixels) - either segmented electrodes or an active matrix of pixel electrodes controlled by transistors - a pattern can be made to appear electronically at the viewing surface.
  • the pattern can be, e.g., the text to a book.
  • electrophoretic displays with three or four reflective particles operate similar to the simple black and white displays because the desired color particle is driven to the viewing surface.
  • the driving schemes are far more complicated than only black and white, but in the end, the optical function of the particles is the same.
  • Advanced Color electronic Paper also included four particles, but the cyan, yellow, and magenta particles are subtractive rather than reflective, thereby allowing thousands of colors to be produced at each pixel.
  • the color process is functionally equivalent to the printing methods that have long been used in offset printing and ink-jet printers. A given color is produced by using the correct ratio of cyan, yellow, and magenta on a bright white paper background. In the instance of ACeP, the relative positions of the cyan, yellow, magenta and white particles with respect to the viewing surface will determine the color at each pixel.
  • a related type of electrophoretic display is a so-called microcell electrophoretic display.
  • the charged particles and the fluid are not encapsulated within microcapsules but instead are retained within a plurality of cavities formed within a carrier medium, typically a polymeric film. See, e.g., U.S. Patents Nos. 6,672,921 and 6,788,449.
  • a color filter array may be deposited over the viewing surface of the monochrome (black and white) display. Displays with color filter arrays rely on area sharing and color blending to create color stimuli. The available display area is shared between three or four primary colors such as red/green/blue (RGB) or red/green/blue/white (RGBW), and the filters can be arranged in one-dimensional (stripe) or two-dimensional (2x2) repeat patterns. Other choices of primary colors or more than three primaries are also known in the art.
  • RGB displays three (in the case of RGB displays) or four (in the case of RGBW displays) sub-pixels are chosen small enough so that at the intended viewing distance they visually blend together to a single pixel with a uniform color stimulus (‘color blending’).
  • color blending The inherent disadvantage of area sharing is that the colorants are always present, and colors can only be modulated by switching the corresponding pixels of the underlying monochrome display to white or black (switching the corresponding primary colors on or off).
  • the brightness and saturation of colors is lowered by area-sharing with color pixels switched to black.
  • Area sharing is especially problematic when mixing yellow because it is lighter than any other color of equal brightness, and saturated yellow is almost as bright as white. Switching the blue pixels (one fourth of the display area) to black makes the yellow too dark.
  • U.S. Patent Nos. 8,576,476 and 8,797,634 describe multicolor electrophoretic displays having a single back plane comprising independently addressable pixel electrodes and a common, light-transmissive front electrode. Between the back plane and the front electrode is disposed a plurality of electrophoretic layers. Displays described in these applications are capable of rendering any of the primary colors (red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow, white and black) at any pixel location.
  • a second form of electrophoretic medium capable of rendering any color at any pixel location is described in U. S. Patent No. 9,921,451.
  • the electrophoretic medium includes four particles: white, cyan, magenta and yellow, in which two of the particles are positively-charged and two negatively charged.
  • displays of the ‘451 patent also suffer from color mixing with the white state. Because one of the particles has the same charge as the white particle, some quantity of the same-charge particle moves with the white toward the viewing surface when the white state is desired. While it is possible to overcome this unwanted tinting with complex waveforms, such waveforms greatly increase the update time of the display and in some instances, result in unacceptable “flashing” between images.
  • a color electrophoretic display providing an improved black optical state in accordance with one aspect of the invention includes a light-transmissive electrode layer at a viewing surface, aback electrode layer, and an electrophoretic medium disposed therebetween.
  • the electrophoretic medium comprises a non-polar fluid and a multi-pigment particle system comprising five types of charged electrophoretic pigment particles dispersed in the non-polar fluid.
  • the five types of charged electrophoretic pigment particles comprise: a first type of particle having a first optical property and a first charge polarity; a second type of particle having a second optical property, and having a second charge polarity with a first charge magnitude, said second charge polarity being opposite to the first charge polarity a third type of particle having a third optical property, and having the second charge polarity with a second charge magnitude smaller than the first charge magnitude; a fourth type of particle having a fourth optical property, and having the second charge polarity with a third charge magnitude smaller than the second charge magnitude; and a fifth type of particle having a fifth optical property, and having the second charge polarity with a fourth charge magnitude greater than the first charge magnitude.
  • the first type of particle is white
  • the fifth type of particle is black
  • the second, third, and fourth types of particles are each a different one of cyan, magenta, and yellow.
  • the second, third, and fourth types of particles are cyan, magenta, and yellow, respectively.
  • the first charge polarity is negative and the second charge polarity is positive.
  • charge magnitude i.e., charge density per unit area of the pigment particle surface
  • zeta potential the electrical potential at the shear plane for electrophoretic motion
  • the first charge magnitude is about 80 mV to about 100 mV.
  • the fourth charge magnitude is about 100 mV.
  • the first type of particle has a charge magnitude of about - 55 mV to about -70 mV.
  • the thin film transistors comprising the layer of metal oxide semiconductor enable switching of control voltages greater than 25 V and less than -25 V while the light-transmissive electrode layer is held at constant voltage for changing optical states of pixels of the electrophoretic display.
  • the black particles include a polymer shell grafted on a surface of the particles.
  • the third type of particle is magenta and includes a polymer shell coated on the particles by dispersion polymerization.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-section showing the positions of the various colored particles in a four-particle electrophoretic medium when displaying black, white, the three subtractive primary and the three additive primary colors.
  • FIG. 2D illustrates a transition in the four particle display between a first optical state having all of the particles of the first charge polarity at the viewing surface and a fourth optical state having the particles with the second (opposite) polarity behind the low charged particles of the first polarity, which are located at the viewing surface.
  • FIG. 6 is a schematic cross-section showing the positions of the various colored particles in a five-particle electrophoretic medium in accordance with one or more embodiments when displaying black, white, the three subtractive primary and the three additive primary colors.
  • FIG. 7A is a general illustration of an electrophoretic display having five types of particles in a non-polar fluid, wherein a full range of colors is available at each pixel electrode. It is understood that in some embodiments, a type of negatively-charged particle is white, one type of positively charged particle is yellow, one type of positively charged particle is magenta, one type of positively charged particle is black, and one type of positively charged particle is cyan. However, the invention is not limited to the exemplary color sets.
  • FIG. 7B illustrates a transition in the five-particle display between a first optical state having all of the particles of a first charge polarity at the viewing surface and a second optical state having the particles with the second (opposite) polarity at the viewing surface.
  • FIG. 7C illustrates a transition in the five-particle display between a first optical state having all of the particles of the first charge polarity at the viewing surface and a third optical state having the particles with the second (opposite) polarity behind the middle charged particles of the first polarity, which are located at the viewing surface.
  • FIG. 7D illustrates a transition in the five-particle display between a first optical state having all of the particles of the first charge polarity at the viewing surface and a fourth optical state having the particles with the second (opposite) polarity behind the low charged particles of the first polarity, which are located at the viewing surface.
  • FIG. 7E illustrates a transition in the five-particle display between a first optical state having all of the particles of the first charge polarity at the viewing surface and a fifth optical state having the particles with the second (opposite) polarity behind a combination of the low charged particles and the medium charged particles of the first polarity, which are located at the viewing surface.
  • Various embodiments disclosed herein relate to a five-particle electrophoretic medium in a display device providing an improved, more saturated black optical state at the device viewing surface.
  • U.S. Patent No. 11,686,989 discloses a four-particle electrophoretic medium, including a first particle of a first polarity, and three other particles having the opposite polarity, but having different magnitudes of charge.
  • a system includes a negatively-charged white particle and positively-charged yellow, magenta, and cyan particles having subtractive primary colors.
  • some particles may be engineered so that their electrophoretic mobility is nonlinear with respect to the strength of the applied electric field. Accordingly, one or more particles will experience a decrease in electrophoretic mobility with the application of a high electric field (e.g., 20V or greater) of the correct polarity.
  • a high electric field e.g. 20V or greater
  • Such a four-particle system is shown schematically in FIG. 1, and it can provide white, yellow, red, magenta, blue, cyan, green, and black at every pixel.
  • the disclosed four-particle electrophoretic media can also be updated faster, require “less flashy” transitions, and produce color spectra that is more pleasing to the viewer (and thus, commercially more valuable). Additionally, the disclosed formulations provides for fast (e.g., less than 500 ms, e.g., less than 300 ms, e.g., less than 200 ms, e.g., less than 100 ms) updates between black and white pixels, thereby enabling fast page turns for black on white text.
  • fast e.g., less than 500 ms, e.g., less than 300 ms, e.g., less than 200 ms, e.g., less than 100 ms
  • one subtractive primary color could be rendered by a particle that scatters light, so that the display would comprise two types of light-scattering particle, one of which would be white and another colored.
  • the position of the light- scattering colored particles with respect to the other colored particles overlying the white particle would be important. For example, in rendering the color black (when all three colored particles lie over the white particles) the scattering colored particle cannot lie over the nonscattering colored particles (otherwise they will be partially or completely hidden behind the scattering particle and the color rendered will be that of the scattering colored particle, not black).
  • FIG. 1 shows an idealized situation in which the colors are uncontaminated (i.e., the light-scattering white particles completely mask any particles lying behind the white particles).
  • the masking by the white particles may be imperfect so that there may be some small absorption of light by a particle that ideally would be completely masked.
  • Such contamination typically reduces both the lightness and the chroma of the color being rendered.
  • a particularly favored standard is SNAP (the standard for newspaper advertising production), which specifies L*, a*, and b* values for each of the eight primary colors referred to above.
  • SNAP the standard for newspaper advertising production
  • FIGS. 2A-2E show schematic cross-sectional representations of a display layer with four particle types.
  • the display layer includes a first (viewing) surface 13 on the viewing side, and a second surface 14 on the opposite side of the first surface 13.
  • the electrophoretic medium is disposed between the two surfaces. Each space between two dotted vertical lines denotes a pixel. Within each pixel the electrophoretic medium can be addressed and the viewing surface 13 of each pixel can achieve the color states shown in FIG. 1 without a need for additional layers, and without a color filter array.
  • the first surface 13 includes a common electrode 11, which is light-transmissive, e.g., constructed from a sheet of PET with indium tin oxide (ITO) disposed thereon.
  • an electrode layer 12 which includes a plurality of pixel electrodes 15.
  • Such pixel electrodes are described in U.S. Patent No. 7,046,228, the content of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
  • TFT thin film transistor
  • the scope of the present invention encompasses other types of electrode addressing as long as the electrodes serve the desired functions.
  • the top and bottom electrodes can be contiguous.
  • pixel electrode backplanes different from those described in the ‘228 patent are also suitable, and may include active matrix backplanes capable of providing higher driving voltages than typically found with amorphous silicon thin-film-transistor backplanes.
  • Newly-developed active matrix backplanes may include thin film transistors incorporating metal oxide materials, such as tungsten oxide, tin oxide, indium oxide, zinc oxide or more complex metal oxides such as indium gallium zirconium oxide.
  • metal oxide materials such as tungsten oxide, tin oxide, indium oxide, zinc oxide or more complex metal oxides such as indium gallium zirconium oxide.
  • Such metal oxide transistors also allow for less leakage in the “off” state of the thin-film transistor (TFT) than can be achieved by, e.g., amorphous silicon TFTs.
  • TFT thin-film transistor
  • the transistor will be in the “off” state for approximately a proportion (n-l)/n of the time required to refresh every line of the display.
  • TFTs typically include a gate electrode, a gate-insulating film (typically SiCh), a metal source electrode, a metal drain electrode, and a metal oxide semiconductor film over the gateinsulating film, at least partially overlapping the gate electrode, source electrode, and drain electrode.
  • a gate electrode typically SiCh
  • metal source electrode typically include a metal source electrode, a metal drain electrode, and a metal oxide semiconductor film over the gateinsulating film, at least partially overlapping the gate electrode, source electrode, and drain electrode.
  • Such backplanes are available from manufacturers such as Sharp/Foxconn, LG, and BOE. Such backplanes are able to provide driving voltages of ⁇ 30V (or more).
  • intermediate voltage drivers are included so that the resulting driving waveforms may include five levels, or seven levels, or nine levels, or more.
  • IGZO-TFT indium gallium zinc oxide
  • IGZO-TFT has 20-50 times the electron mobility of amorphous silicon.
  • a source driver capable of supplying at least five, and preferably seven levels provides a different driving paradigm for a four-particle electrophoretic display system.
  • These levels may be chosen within the range of about - 27V to +27V, without the limitations imposed by top plane switching as described above.
  • FIGS. 2A-2E show an electrophoretic medium including four types of electrophoretic particles in a non-polar fluid 17.
  • a first particle (W-*; open circle) is negatively charged and may be surface treated so that the electrophoretic mobility of the first particle is dependent upon the strength of the driving electric field (discussed in greater detail below). In such instances, the electrophoretic mobility of the particle actually decreases in the presence of a stronger electric field, which is somewhat counter-intuitive.
  • a second particle (M++*; dark circle) is positively charged, and may also be surface treated (or purposely untreated) so that either the electrophoretic mobility of the second particle is dependent upon the strength of the driving electric field, or the rate of unpacking of a collection of the second particle, after having been driven to one side of the cavity containing the particles upon reversal of the electric field direction, is slower than the rate of unpacking of collections of the third and fourth particles.
  • a third particle (Y+; checkered circle) is positive, but has a charge magnitude that is smaller than the second particle. Additionally, the third particle may be surface treated, but not in a way that causes the electrophoretic mobility of the third particle to depend upon the strength of the driving electric field.
  • the third particle may have a surface treatment, however such a surface treatment does not result in the aforementioned reduction in electrophoretic mobility with an increased electric field.
  • the fourth particle (C+++; gray circle) has the highest magnitude positive charge and the same type of surface treatment as the third particle.
  • the particles are nominally white, magenta, yellow, and cyan in color to produce colors as shown in FIG. 1.
  • the color sets are not limited to one reflective particle and three absorptive particles.
  • the system could include one black absorptive particle and three reflective particles of red, yellow, and blue with suitably matched reflectance spectra to produce a process white state when all three reflective particles are mixed and viewable at the surface.
  • the first particle (negative) is white and scattering.
  • the second particle (positive, medium charge magnitude) is magenta and absorptive.
  • the third particle (positive, low charge magnitude) is yellow and absorptive.
  • the fourth particle (positive, high charge magnitude) is cyan and absorptive.
  • Table 1 below shows the diffuse reflectance of exemplary yellow, magenta, cyan and white particles useful in electrophoretic media, together with the ratio of their absorption and scattering coefficients according to the Kubelka-Munk analysis of these materials as dispersed in a poly(isobutylene) matrix.
  • Table 1 Diffuse reflectance of preferred yellow, magenta, cyan and white particles.
  • the electrophoretic medium may be in any of the forms discussed above.
  • the electrophoretic medium may be unencapsulated, encapsulated in discrete capsules surrounded by capsule walls, encapsulated in sealed microcells, or in the form of a polymer-dispersed medium.
  • the pigments are described in detail elsewhere, such as in U.S. Patent Nos. 9,697,778 and 9,921,451.
  • white particle W1 is a silanol-functionalized light-scattering pigment (titanium dioxide) to which a polymeric material comprising lauryl methacrylate (LMA) monomers has been attached as described in U.S. Patent No. 7,002,728.
  • White particle W2 is a polymer-coated titania produced substantially as described in Example 1 of U.S. Patent No. 5,852,196, with a polymer coating comprising an approximately 99: 1 ratio of lauryl methacrylate and 2,2,2-trifluoroethyl methacrylate.
  • Yellow particle Y1 is C.I. Pigment Yellow 180, used without coating and dispersed by attrition in the presence of Solsperse 19000, as described generally in U.S. Patent No. 9,697,778.
  • Yellow particle Y2 is C.I. Pigment Yellow 155 used without coating and dispersed by attrition in the presence of Solsperse 19000, as described generally in in U.S. Patent No. 9,697,778.
  • Yellow particle Y3 is C.I. Pigment Yellow 139, used without coating and dispersed by attrition in the presence of Solsperse 19000, as described generally in in U.S. Patent No. 9,697,778.
  • Yellow particle Y4 is C.I. Pigment Yellow 139, which is coated by dispersion polymerization, incorporating trifluoroethyl methacrylate, methyl methacrylate and dimethylsiloxane-containing monomers as described in Example 4 of U.S. Patent No. 9,921,451.
  • Magenta particle Ml is a positively-charged magenta material (dimethylquinacridone, C.I. Pigment Red 122) coated using vinylbenzyl chloride and LMA as described in U.S. Patent No. 9,697,778 and in Example 5 ofU.S. Patent No. 9,921,451.
  • Magenta particle M2 is a C.I. Pigment Red 122 which is coated by dispersion polymerization, methyl methacrylate and dimethylsiloxane-containing monomers as described in Example 6 of U.S. Patent No. 9,921,451.
  • Cyan particle Cl is a copper phthalocyanine material (C.I. Pigment Blue 15:3) that is coated by dispersion polymerization, incorporating methyl methacrylate and dimethylsiloxane-containing monomers as described in Example 7 of U.S. Patent No. 9,921,451.
  • the color gamut is improved by using Ink Jet Yellow 4GC (Clariant) as the core yellow pigment, with incorporation of methyl methacrylate surface polymers.
  • the zeta potential of this yellow pigment can be tuned with the addition of 2,2,2-trifluoroehtyl methacrylate (TFEM) monomers and monomethacrylate terminated poly(dimethylsiloxane).
  • Black particles may be formed from CI pigment black 26 or 28 or the like (e.g., manganese ferrite black spinel or copper chromite black spinel) or carbon black.
  • the charge polarity of any of the above particles, as well as the charge magnitude, can be engineered using a variety of surface treatments. Additionally, the surface treatment may improve compatibility of the core particles to the monomer in a reaction medium, or chemical bonding with the monomer, in forming the shell of the composite color particles. As an example, the surface treatment may be carried out with an organic silane having functional groups, such as acrylate, vinyl, — NH2, — NCO — , — OH or the like. These functional groups may undergo chemical reaction with the monomers.
  • the color core particles may also be surface treated with an inorganic material, such as silica, aluminum oxide, zinc oxide or the like or a combination thereof.
  • Sodium silicate or tetraethoxysilane may be used as a common precursor for silica coating.
  • the structure of the coating may be porous to reduce density.
  • TFEM fluorinated acrylates or fluorinated methacrylates
  • fluorinated monomers namely 2,2,3,4,4,4-hexafluorobutyl acrylate and 3,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,7,7,8,8,8-tridecafluorooctyl acrylate
  • fluorinated monomers namely 2,2,3,4,4,4-hexafluorobutyl acrylate and 3,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,7,7,8,8,8-tridecafluorooctyl acrylate
  • Electrophoretic media additives and surface treatments for facilitating differential electrophoretic mobility, as well as proposed mechanisms for interaction between the surface treatment and surrounding charge control agents and/or free polymers, are discussed in detail in U.S. Patent No. 9,697,778, incorporated by reference in its entirety.
  • one way of controlling the interactions among the various types of particles is by controlling the kind, amount, and thickness of polymeric coatings on the particles.
  • the second type of particle may bear a polymeric surface treatment
  • the third and fourth types of particles bear either no polymeric surface treatment or a polymeric surface treatment having a lower mass coverage per unit area of the particle surface than the second type of particles.
  • the Hamaker constant (which is a measure of the strength of the Van der Waals interaction between two particles, the pair potential being proportional to the Hamaker constant and inversely proportional to the sixth power of the distance between the two particles) and/or the interparticle spacing need(s) to be adjusted by judicious choice of the polymeric coating(s) on the three species of particles.
  • different types of polymers may include different types of polymer surface treatment.
  • Coulombic interactions may be weakened when the closest distance of approach of oppositely-charged particles is maximized by a steric barrier (typically a polymer grafted or adsorbed to the surface of one or both particles).
  • the polymer shell may be a covalently-bonded polymer made by grafting processes or chemisorption as is well known in the art, or may be physisorbed onto the particle surface.
  • the polymer may be a block copolymer comprising insoluble and soluble segments.
  • the polymer shell may be dynamic in that it is a loose network of free polymer from the electrophoretic medium that is complexed with a pigment particle in the presence of an electric field and a sufficient amount and kind of charge control agent (CCA - discussed below).
  • CCA charge control agent
  • a particle may have more associated polymer, which causes the particle to interact differently with the container (e.g., microcapsule or microcell) and the other particles.
  • TGA thermal gravimetric analysis
  • a particle typically the first and/or second particle
  • a particle can have a covalently-attached polymer shell that interacts strongly with the container (e.g., microcell or microcapsule). Meanwhile the other particles of the same charge have no polymer coating or complex with free polymers in the solution so that those particles have little interaction with the container.
  • a particle typically the first and/or second particle
  • will have no surface coating so that it is easier for that particle to form a charge double layer and experience electrophoretic mobility reduction in the presence of strong fields.
  • the fluid 17, in which the four types of particles are dispersed, is clear and colorless.
  • the fluid contains the charged electrophoretic particles, which move through the fluid under the influence of an electric field.
  • a preferred suspending fluid has a low dielectric constant (about 2), high volume resistivity (about 10 15 Ohm. cm), low viscosity (less than 5 mPas), low toxicity and environmental impact, low water solubility (less than 10 parts per million (ppm), if traditional aqueous methods of encapsulation are to be used; note however that this requirement may be relaxed for non-encapsulated or certain microcell displays), a high boiling point (greater than about 90°C), and a low refractive index (less than 1.5).
  • the last requirement arises from the use of scattering (typically white) pigments of high refractive index, whose scattering efficiency depends upon a mismatch in refractive index between the particles and the fluid.
  • suitable dielectric fluids include hydrocarbons such as Isopar®, decahydronaphthalene (DECALIN), 5-ethylidene-2-norbornene, fatty oils, paraffin oil, silicon fluids, aromatic hydrocarbons such as toluene, xylene, phenylxylylethane, dodecylbenzene or alkylnaphthalene, halogenated solvents such as perfluorodecalin, perfluorotoluene, perfluoroxylene, dichlorobenzotrifluoride, 3,4,5 -trichlorobenzotri fluoride, chloropentafluorobenzene, di chlorononane or pentachlorobenzene, and perfluorinated solvents such as FC-43, FC-70 or FC-5060 from 3M Company, St.
  • hydrocarbons such as Isopar®, decahydronaphthalene (DECALIN), 5-ethylidene-2-norbornen
  • the electrophoretic media typically also include one or more charge control agents (CCA), and may also include a charge director.
  • CCA and charge directors typically comprise low molecular weight surfactants, polymeric agents, or blends of one or more components and serve to stabilize or otherwise modify the sign and/or magnitude of the charge on the electrophoretic particles.
  • the CCA is typically a molecule comprising ionic or other polar groupings, hereinafter referred to as head groups. At least one of the positive or negative ionic head groups is preferably attached to a non-polar chain (typically a hydrocarbon chain) that is hereinafter referred to as a tail group. It is thought that the CCA forms reverse micelles in the internal phase and that it is a small population of charged reverse micelles that leads to electrical conductivity in the very non-polar fluids typically used as electrophoretic fluids.
  • CCAs provides for the production of reverse micelles including a highly polar core that may vary in size from 1 nm to tens of nanometers (and may have spherical, cylindrical, or other geometry) surrounded by the non-polar tail groups of the CCA molecule.
  • three phases may typically be distinguished: a solid particle having a surface, a highly polar phase that is distributed in the form of extremely small droplets (reverse micelles), and a continuous phase that comprises the fluid. Both the charged particles and the charged reverse micelles may move through the fluid upon application of an electric field, and thus there are two parallel pathways for electrical conduction through the fluid (which typically has a vanishingly small electrical conductivity itself).
  • the polar core of the CCA is thought to affect the charge on surfaces by adsorption onto the surfaces.
  • adsorption may be onto the surfaces of the electrophoretic particles or the interior walls of a microcapsule (or other solid phase, such as the walls of a microcell) to form structures similar to reverse micelles, these structures hereinafter being referred to as hemi-micelles.
  • ion exchange between hemi- micelles and unbound reverse micelles can lead to charge separation in which the more strongly bound ion remains associated with the particle and the less strongly bound ion becomes incorporated into the core of a free reverse micelle.
  • the ionic materials forming the head group of the CCA may induce ion-pair formation at the particle (or other) surface.
  • the CCA may perform two basic functions: charge-generation at the surface and charge-separation from the surface.
  • the charge-generation may result from an acid-base or an ion-exchange reaction between some moiety present in the CCA molecule or otherwise incorporated into the reverse micelle core or fluid, and the particle surface.
  • useful CCA materials are those which are capable of participating in such a reaction, or any other charging reaction as known in the art.
  • Non-limiting classes of charge control agents that are useful in the media of the present invention include organic sulfates or sulfonates, metal soaps, block or comb copolymers, organic amides, organic zwitterions, and organic phosphates and phosphonates.
  • Useful organic sulfates and sulfonates include, but are not limited to, sodium bis(2-ethylhexyl) sulfosuccinate, calcium dodecylbenzenesulfonate, calcium petroleum sulfonate, neutral or basic barium dinonylnaphthalene sulfonate, neutral or basic calcium dinonylnaphthalene sulfonate, dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid sodium salt, and ammonium lauryl sulfate.
  • Useful metal soaps include, but are not limited to, basic or neutral barium petronate, calcium petronate, cobalt, calcium, copper, manganese, magnesium, nickel, zinc, aluminum and iron salts of carboxylic acids such as naphthenic, octanoic, oleic, palmitic, stearic, and myristic acids and the like.
  • Useful block or comb copolymers include, but are not limited to, AB diblock copolymers of (A) polymers of 2-(N,N-dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate quaternized with methyl p-toluenesulfonate and (B) poly(2-ethylhexyl methacrylate), and comb graft copolymers with oil soluble tails of poly(12-hydroxystearic acid) and having a molecular weight of about 1800, pendant on an oil-soluble anchor group of poly(methyl methacrylatemethacrylic acid).
  • Useful organic amides/amines include, but are not limited to, polyisobutylene succinimides such as OLOA 371 or 1200 (available from Chevron Oronite Company LLC, Houston, Tex.), or SOLSPERSE 17000 or 19000 (available from Lubrizol, Wickliffe, OH: Solsperse is a Registered Trade Mark), and N-vinylpyrrolidone polymers.
  • Useful organic zwitterions include, but are not limited to, lecithin.
  • Useful organic phosphates and phosphonates include, but are not limited to, the sodium salts of phosphated mono- and diglycerides with saturated and unsaturated acid substituents.
  • Useful tail groups for CCA include polymers of olefins such as poly(isobutylene) of molecular weight in the range of 200 - 10,000.
  • the head groups may be sulfonic, phosphoric or carboxylic acids or amides, or alternatively amino groups such as primary, secondary, tertiary or quaternary ammonium groups.
  • One class of CCAs that are useful in the disclosed four-particle electrophoretic media are disclosed in U.S. Patent Publication No. 2017/0097556, incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
  • Such CCAs typically include a quaternary amine head group and an unsaturated polymeric tail, i.e., including at least one C-C double bond.
  • the polymeric tail is typically a fatty acid tail.
  • a variety of CCA molecular weights can be used. In some embodiments, the molecular weight of the CCA is 12,000 grams/mole or greater, e.g., between 14,000 grams/mole and 22,000 grams/mole.
  • Charge adjuvants used in the media of the present invention may bias the charge on electrophoretic particle surfaces, as described in more detail below.
  • Such charge adjuvants may be Bronsted or Lewis acids or bases.
  • Exemplary charge adjuvants are disclosed in U.S. Patent Nos. 9,765,015; 10,233,339; and 10,782,586, all of which are incorporated by reference in their entireties.
  • Exemplary adjuvants may include polyhydroxy compounds which contain at least two hydroxyl groups include, but are not limited to, ethylene glycol, 2, 4,7,9- tetramethyldecyne-4,7-diol, polypropylene glycol), pentaethylene glycol, tripropylene glycol, triethylene glycol, glycerol, pentaerythritol, glycerol tris(12-hydroxystearate), propylene glycerol monohydroxystearate, and ethylene glycol monohydroxystearate.
  • the charge adjuvant is present in the electrophoretic display medium in an amount of between about 1 to about 500 milligrams per gram (“mg/g”) of the particle mass, and more preferably between about 50 to about 200 mg/g.
  • Particle dispersion stabilizers may be added to prevent particle flocculation or attachment to the capsule or other walls or surfaces.
  • non-aqueous surfactants include, but are not limited to, glycol ethers, acetylenic glycols, alkanolamides, sorbitol derivatives, alkyl amines, quaternary amines, imidazolines, dialkyl oxides, and sulfosuccinates.
  • the bistability of electrophoretic media can be improved by including in the fluid a polymer having a number average molecular weight in excess of about 20,000, this polymer being essentially non-absorbing on the electrophoretic particles; poly(isobutylene) is a preferred polymer for this purpose.
  • a particle with immobilized charge on its surface sets up an electrical double layer of opposite charge in a surrounding fluid. Ionic head groups of the CCA may be ion-paired with charged groups on the electrophoretic particle surface, forming a layer of immobilized or partially immobilized charged species.
  • a diffuse layer comprising charged (reverse) micelles comprising CCA molecules in the fluid.
  • an applied electric field exerts a force on the fixed surface charges and an opposite force on the mobile counter-charges, such that slippage occurs within the diffuse layer and the particle moves relative to the fluid.
  • the electric potential at the slip plane is known as the zeta potential.
  • some of the particle types within the electrophoretic medium have different electrophoretic mobilities depending upon the strength of the electric field across the electrophoretic medium. For example, when a first (low strength, i.e., around ⁇ 10V or less) electric field is applied to the electrophoretic medium, the first type of particles move in one direction relative to the electric field, however, when a second (high strength, i.e., around ⁇ 20V or more) electric field is applied, having the same polarity as the first electric field, the first type of particles begins to move in the opposite direction relative to the electric field. It is theorized that the behavior results from conduction within the highly non-polar fluid being mediated by charged reverse micelles or counter-charged electrophoretic particles.
  • any electrochemically-generated protons are probably transported through the non-polar fluid in micelle cores or adsorbed on electrophoretic particles.
  • a positively-charged reverse micelle may approach a negative electrophoretic particle traveling in the opposite direction, wherein the reverse micelle is incorporated into the electric double layer around the negatively charged particle.
  • the electric double layer includes both the diffuse layer of charge with enhanced counter-ion concentration and the hemi-micellar surface-adsorbed coating on the particle; in the latter case, the reverse micelle charge would become associated with the particle within the slip envelope that, as noted above, defines the zeta potential of the particle.
  • an electrochemical current of positively-charged ions flows through the electrophoretic fluid, and the negatively-charged particles may become biased towards a more positive charge.
  • the electrophoretic mobility, e.g., of the first negative type of particle is a function of the magnitude of the electrochemical current and the residence time of a positive charge close to the particle surface, which is a function of the strength of the electric field.
  • positively-charged particles can be prepared that also exhibit different electrophoretic mobilities depending upon the applied electric field.
  • a secondary (or co-) CCA can be added to the electrophoretic medium to adjust the zeta potentials of the various particles. Careful selection of the co-CCA may allow alteration of the zeta potential of one particle while leaving those of the other particles essentially unchanged, allows close control of both the electrophoretic velocities of the various particles during switching and the inter-particle interactions.
  • a portion of the charge control agents intended for the final formulation are added during synthesis of the electrophoretic particles to engineer the desired zeta potential and to influence the reduction in electrophoretic mobility due to a strong electric field.
  • adding quaternary amine charge control agents during polymer grafting will result in some amount of the CCA being complexed to the particles. (This can be confirmed by removing the particles from the electrophoretic fluid and subsequently stripping the surface species from the pigments with THF to remove all adsorbed species.
  • the CCA includes a quaternary amine head group and a fatty acid tail.
  • the fatty acid tail is unsaturated.
  • the particles in the electrophoretic medium include high CCA loading, it is important that the particles for which consistent electrophoretic mobility is desired do not have substantial CCA loading, e.g., less than 50 mg of a charge control agent (CCA) per gram of finished particle, e.g., less than 10 mg of a charge control agent (CCA) per gram of finished particle.
  • CCA charge control agent
  • an electrophoretic medium including four types of particles in the presence of Solsperse 17000 in Isopar E benefits from the additions of small amounts of acidic entities such as, e.g., aluminum salts of di-t-butyl salicylic acid (Bontron E-88, available from Orient Corporation, Kenilworth, NJ)).
  • Addition of the acidic material moves the zeta potential of many particles (though not all) to more positive values.
  • about 1% of the acidic material and 99% of Solsperse 17000 moves the zeta potential of the third type of particle (Y+) from -5mV to about+20mV. Whether or not the zeta potential of a particular particle is changed by a Lewis acidic material like the aluminum salt will depend upon the details of the surface chemistry of the particle.
  • Table 2 shows exemplary relative zeta potentials of the three types of colored and singular white particles.
  • the negative (white) particle may have a zeta potential of -30mV, and the remaining three particles are all positive relative to the white particle. Accordingly, a display comprising positive cyan, magenta, and yellow particles can switch between a black state (with all colored particles in front of the white particle with respect to the viewing surface) and a white state, with the white particle closest to the viewer, and blocking the viewer from perceiving the remaining three particles.
  • the white particle has a zeta potential of 0V
  • the negatively-charged yellow particle is the most negative of all the particles, and thus a display comprising this particle would switch between a yellow and a blue state. This would also occur if the white particle were positively charged.
  • the positively-charged yellow particle however, would be more positive than the white particle unless its zeta potential exceeded +20mV.
  • the behavior of the electrophoretic media of the invention are consistent with the mobility of the white particle (represented in Table 2 as the zeta potential) being dependent upon the applied electric field.
  • the white particle when addressed with a low voltage, the white particle might behave as though its zeta potential were -30mV, but when addressed with a higher voltage it might behave as though its zeta potential were more positive, maybe even as high as +20mV (matching the zeta potential of the yellow particle).
  • the display when addressed with a low voltage, the display would switch between black and white states but when addressed at a higher voltage would switch between blue and yellow states.
  • each box bounded by dashed lines represents a pixel bounded by a top light-transmissive electrode 21 and a bottom electrode 22, which may be a pixel electrode of an active matrix, however it may also be a light-transmissive electrode, or a segmented electrode, etc.
  • the electrophoretic medium can be driven to four different optical states, as shown in FIGS. 2B-2E.
  • FIGS. 2B-2E This results in a white optical state (FIG. 2B), a magenta optical state (FIG. 2C), a yellow optical state (FIG. 2D), and a red optical state (FIG. 2E).
  • FIG. 2B white optical state
  • FOG. 2C magenta optical state
  • FOG. 2D yellow optical state
  • red optical state FIG. 2E
  • the particles When addressed with a low voltage, as in FIG. 2B, the particles behave according to their relative zeta potentials with relative velocities illustrated by the arrows for the case when a negative voltage is applied to the backplane.
  • the cyan particles move faster than the magenta particles, which move faster than the yellow particles.
  • the first (positive) pulse does not change the positions of the particles, since they are already restricted in motion by the walls of the enclosure.
  • the second (negative) pulse exchanges the positions of the colored and white particles, and thus the display switches between black and white states, albeit with transient colors reflecting the relative mobilities of the colored particles. Reversing the starting positions and polarities of the pulses allows for a transition from white to black. Accordingly, black-white updates are provided that require lower voltages (and consume less power) as compared to other black and white formulations achieved with multiple colors via either a process black or a process white.
  • the first (positive) pulse is of a high positive voltage, sufficient to reduce the mobility of the magenta particle (i.e., the particle of intermediate mobility of the three positively-charge colored particles). Because of the reduced mobility, the magenta particles essentially remain frozen in place, and a subsequent pulse in the opposite direction, of low voltage, moves the cyan, white, and yellow particles more than the magenta particles, thereby producing a magenta color at the viewing surface, with the negative white particles behind the magenta particles.
  • this pulse sequence would produce a green color (i.e., a mixture of yellow and cyan particles).
  • the first pulse is of a low voltage that does not significantly reduce the mobility of the magenta particles or the white particles.
  • the second pulse is of a high negative voltage that reduces the mobility of the white particles. This allows more effective racing between the three positive particles, such that the slowest type of particles (yellow in this example) remains visible in front of the white particle, whose movement was diminished with the earlier negative pulse. Notably, the yellow particles do not make it to the top surface of the cavity containing the particles.
  • this pulse sequence would produce a blue color (i.e., a mixture of magenta and cyan particles).
  • FIG. 2E shows that when both pulses are of high voltage, the magenta particle mobility would be reduced by the first high positive pulse, and the racing between cyan and yellow would be enhanced by the reduction in white mobility caused by the second high negative pulse. This produces a red color. Importantly, if the starting position and the polarities of the pulses are reversed, (equivalent to viewing the display from the side opposite the viewing surface, i.e., through electrode 22), this pulse sequence would produce a cyan color.
  • One way to achieve this objective is to provide an array of non-linear elements, such as transistors or diodes, with at least one nonlinear element associated with each pixel, to produce an "active matrix" display.
  • An addressing or pixel electrode, which addresses one pixel, is connected to an appropriate voltage source through the associated non-linear element.
  • the non-linear element is a transistor
  • the pixel electrode is connected to the drain of the transistor, and this arrangement will be assumed in the following description, although it is essentially arbitrary and the pixel electrode could be connected to the source of the transistor.
  • the pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional array of rows and columns, such that any specific pixel is uniquely defined by the intersection of one specified row and one specified column.
  • the sources of all the transistors in each column are connected to a single column electrode, while the gates of all the transistors in each row are connected to a single row electrode; again the assignment of sources to rows and gates to columns is conventional but essentially arbitrary, and could be reversed if desired.
  • the row electrodes are connected to a row driver, which essentially ensures that at any given moment only one row is selected, i.e., that there is applied to the selected row electrode a select voltage such as to ensure that all the transistors in the selected row are conductive, while there is applied to all other rows a nonselect voltage such as to ensure that all the transistors in these non-selected rows remain non- conductive.
  • the column electrodes are connected to column drivers, which place upon the various column electrodes voltages selected to drive the pixels in the selected row to their desired optical states.
  • the aforementioned voltages are relative to a common front electrode which is conventionally provided on the opposed side of the electro-optic medium from the non-linear array and extends across the whole display.) After a pre-selected interval known as the "line address time" the selected row is deselected, the next row is selected, and the voltages on the column drivers are changed so that the next line of the display is written. This process is repeated so that the entire display is written in a row-by-row manner.
  • each pixel electrode has associated therewith a capacitor electrode such that the pixel electrode and the capacitor electrode form a capacitor; see, e.g., International Patent Application WO 01/07961.
  • N-type semiconductor e.g., amorphous silicon
  • the “select” and “non-select” voltages applied to the gate electrodes can be positive and negative, respectively.
  • FIG. 3 of the accompanying drawings depicts an exemplary equivalent circuit of a single pixel of an electrophoretic display.
  • the circuit includes a capacitor 10 formed between a pixel electrode and a capacitor electrode.
  • the electrophoretic medium 20 is represented as a capacitor and a resistor in parallel.
  • direct or indirect coupling capacitance 30 between the gate electrode of the transistor associated with the pixel and the pixel electrode may create unwanted noise to the display.
  • the parasitic capacitance 30 is much smaller than that of the storage capacitor 10, and when the pixel rows of a display is being selected or deselected, the parasitic capacitance 30 may result in a small negative offset voltage to the pixel electrode, also known as a “kickback voltage”, which is usually less than 2 volts.
  • a common potential V com may be supplied to the top plane electrode and the capacitor electrode associated with each pixel, such that, when Vcom is set to a value equal to the kickback voltage (VKB), every voltage supplied to the display may be offset by the same amount, and no net DC-imbalance experienced.
  • V com is set to a voltage that is not compensated for the kickback voltage. This may occur when it is desired to apply a higher voltage to the display than is available from the backplane alone. It is well known in the art that, e.g., the maximum voltage applied to the display may be doubled if the backplane is supplied with a choice of a nominal +V, 0, or -V, e.g., while V com is supplied with -V. The maximum voltage experienced in this case is +2V (i.e., at the backplane relative to the top plane), while the minimum is zero. If negative voltages are needed, the V com potential must be raised at least to zero. Waveforms used to address a display with positive and negative voltages using top plane switching must therefore have particular frames allocated to each of more than one V com voltage setting.
  • U.S. Patent No. 9,921,451 seven different voltages are applied to the pixel electrodes: three positive, three negative, and zero.
  • the maximum voltages used in these waveforms are higher than that can be handled by amorphous silicon thin-film transistors.
  • suitable high voltages can be obtained by the use of top plane switching.
  • V com is deliberately set to VKB, a separate power supply may be used. It is costly and inconvenient, however, to use as many separate power supplies as there are V com settings when top plane switching is used.
  • top plane switching is known to increase kickback, thereby degrading the stability of the color states.
  • a display device may be constructed using an electrophoretic fluid of the invention in several ways that are known in the prior art.
  • the electrophoretic fluid may be encapsulated in microcapsules or incorporated into microcell structures that are thereafter sealed with a polymeric layer.
  • the microcapsule or microcell layers may be coated or embossed onto a plastic substrate or film bearing a transparent coating of an electrically conductive material.
  • This assembly may be laminated to a backplane bearing pixel electrodes using an electrically conductive adhesive.
  • the electrophoretic fluid may be dispensed directly on a thin open-cell grid that has been arranged on a backplane including an active matrix of pixel electrodes.
  • FIG. 4 shows a schematic, cross-sectional drawing (not to scale) of a display structure 200 suitable for use with the invention.
  • the electrophoretic fluid is illustrated as being confined to microcells, although equivalent structures incorporating microcapsules may also be used.
  • the substrate 202 which may be glass or plastic, bears pixel electrodes 204 that are either individually addressed segments or associated with thin film transistors in an active matrix arrangement. (The combination of substrate 202 and electrodes 204 is conventionally referred to as the back plane of the display.)
  • Layer 206 is an optional dielectric layer according to the invention applied to the backplane.
  • the front plane of the display comprises transparent substrate 222 that bears a transparent, electrically conductive coating 220. Overlying electrode layer 220 is an optional dielectric layer 218.
  • Layer (or layers) 216 are polymeric layer(s) that may comprise a primer layer for adhesion of microcells to transparent electrode layer 220 and some residual polymer comprising the bottom of the microcells.
  • the walls of the microcells 212 are used to contain the electrophoretic fluid 214.
  • the microcells are sealed with layer 210, and the whole front plane structure is adhered to the backplane using electrically-conductive adhesive layer 208.
  • the microcells are less than 20 pm in depth, e.g., less than 15 pm in depth, e.g., less than 12 pm in depth, e.g., about 10 pm in depth, e.g., about 8 pm in depth.
  • amorphous silicon based thin-film transistors TFTs
  • active matrix backplanes 202/024
  • amorphous silicon thin-film transistors become unstable when supplied gate voltages that would allow switching of voltages higher than about +/-15V.
  • the performance of ACeP is improved when the magnitudes of the high positive and negative voltages are allowed to exceed +/-15V. Accordingly, as described in previous disclosures, improved performance is achieved by additionally changing the bias of the top light-transmissive electrode with respect to the bias on the backplane pixel electrodes, also known as top-plane switching.
  • each pixel of the display can be driven at five different addressing voltages, designated +Vhigh, +Vi 0W , 0, -Vi ow and -Vhigh, illustrated as 30V, 15V, 0, -15V and -30V. In practice, it may be preferred to use a larger number of addressing voltages.
  • FIG. 5 shows typical waveforms (in simplified form) used to drive a four-particle color electrophoretic display system described above.
  • Such waveforms have a “push-pull” structure, i.e., they consist of a dipole comprising two pulses of opposite polarity. The magnitudes and lengths of these pulses determine the color obtained. At a minimum, there should be five such voltage levels.
  • FIG. 5 shows high and low positive and negative voltages, as well as zero volts. Typically, “low” (L) refers to a range of about 5 - 15 V, while “high” (H) refers to a range of about 15 - 30V.
  • M medium
  • the value for M will depend somewhat on the composition of the particles, as well as the environment of the electrophoretic medium.
  • the lengths of these pulses (refresh and address) and of any rests (i.e., periods of zero voltage between them may be chosen so that the entire waveform (i.e., the integral of voltage with respect to time over the whole waveform) is DC balanced (i.e., the integral of voltage over time is substantially zero).
  • DC balance can be achieved by adjusting the lengths of the pulses and rests in the reset phase so that the net impulse supplied in the reset phase is equal in magnitude and opposite in sign to the net impulse supplied in the address phase, during which phase the display is switched to a particular desired color.
  • the starting state for the eight primary colors is either a black or white state, which can be achieved with a sustained low voltage driving pulse. The simplicity of achieving this start state further reduces the time of updates between states, which is more pleasing for the user and also reduces the amount of power consumed (thus increasing battery life).
  • a waveform may be divided into sections where the front electrode is supplied with a positive voltage, a negative voltage, and VKB.
  • a five-particle electrophoretic medium can provide a plurality of colored optical states at each pixel, including an improved black optical state.
  • the five-particle electrophoretic medium is similar to the four-particle electrophoretic media disclosed above with the further addition of black particles.
  • the five-particle electrophoretic medium includes a first white particle of a first polarity and four other particles (including the black particle) having the opposite polarity with different magnitudes of charge.
  • the medium includes a negatively-charged white particle and positively-charged yellow, magenta, cyan, and black particles comprising subtractive primary colors.
  • some particles may be engineered as previously discussed so that their electrophoretic mobility is non-linear with respect to the strength of the applied electric field. Thus, one or more particles can experience a decrease in electrophoretic mobility with the application of a high electric field (e.g., 20V or greater) of the correct polarity.
  • a high electric field e.g. 20V or greater
  • Such a five-particle system is shown schematically in FIG. 6, and it can provide white, yellow, red, magenta, blue, cyan, green, and black at every pixel.
  • each of the eight principal colors corresponds to a different arrangement of the five particles, such that the viewer only sees those colored particles that are on the viewing side of the white particle (which is the only particle that scatters light).
  • the colors can be achieved using the same or substantially the same waveforms described above with respect to FIG. 5.
  • the color states such as magenta do not turn black, but rather have a decreased L* value and may have some shift in a* and b* due to the specific absorption spectrum of the black particles.
  • the diminished L* can be counteracted by increasing the intensity of the LEDs feeding into a front light plate between the viewer and the display.
  • FIGS. 7A-7E show schematic cross-sectional representations of a display layer with five particle types similar to FIGS. 2A-2E, respectively, which depict a four-particle system.
  • the display layer includes a first (viewing) surface 13 on the viewing side, and a second surface 14 on the opposite side of the first surface 13.
  • the five-particle electrophoretic medium is disposed between the two surfaces. Each space between two dotted vertical lines denotes a pixel. Within each pixel the electrophoretic medium can be addressed and the viewing surface 13 of each pixel can achieve the color states shown in FIG. 6 without a need for additional layers, and without a color filter array.
  • the white, yellow, cyan, and magenta particles in the five-particle system in accordance with various embodiments are the same as or similar to the respective particles in the four particle media described above with respect to charge polarity, zeta potential, surface treatment, and behavior in the presence of different electric fields.
  • the white particles (W-*) in the five-particle electrophoretic medium are negatively charged and may be surface treated so that the electrophoretic mobility of the particles is dependent upon the strength of the driving electric field.
  • the electrophoretic mobility of the white particles actually decreases in the presence of a stronger electric field, which is somewhat counter-intuitive.
  • the magenta particles (M++*) are positively charged, and may also be surface treated (or purposely untreated) so that either the electrophoretic mobility of the magenta particles is dependent upon the strength of the driving electric field, or the rate of unpacking of a collection of the magenta particles, after having been driven to one side of the cavity containing the particles upon reversal of the electric field direction, is slower than the rate of unpacking of collections of the yellow and cyan particles.
  • the yellow particles (Y+) are positive, but has a charge magnitude that is smaller than the magenta particle. Additionally, the yellow particles may be surface treated, but not in a way that causes the electrophoretic mobility of the yellow particles to depend upon the strength of the driving electric field. That is, the yellow particles may have a surface treatment, however such a surface treatment does not result in the aforementioned reduction in electrophoretic mobility with an increased electric field.
  • the cyan particles (C+++) have a higher magnitude positive charge than the magenta particles and the same type of surface treatment as the yellow particles.
  • the black particles (K++++) have the highest magnitude positive charge.
  • the black particles have a relatively low concentration in the electrophoretic medium.
  • the black particles can comprise 0.5-2% by weight of the entire internal phase, including the solvent, dispersed polymer, CCA, and other pigment particles.
  • the ratio of black to magenta particles by number of particles is typically between 1 : 10 and 1 :5, e.g., 1 :7.
  • the electrophoretic medium of the five-particle system may be in any of the forms discussed above.
  • the electrophoretic medium may be unencapsulated, encapsulated in discrete capsules surrounded by capsule walls, encapsulated in sealed microcells, or in the form of a polymer-dispersed medium.
  • Table 3 below shows exemplary zeta potentials for the particles of a five-particle electrophoretic medium in one or more embodiments.
  • the electrophoretic medium can be driven to a plurality of different optical states, including the four optical states shown in FIGS. 7B-7E: a white optical state (FIG. 7B), a magenta optical state (FIG. 7C), a yellow optical state (FIG. 7D), and a red optical state (FIG. 7E).
  • the remaining four optical states of FIG. 6 can be achieved by reversing the order of the initial state and the driving electric fields, as shown in short hand in FIG. 5.
  • the particles When addressed with a low voltage, as in FIG. 7B, the particles behave according to their relative zeta potentials with relative velocities illustrated by the arrows for the case when a negative voltage is applied to the backplane.
  • the black particles move faster than the cyan particles, which move faster than the magenta particles, which move faster than the yellow particles.
  • the first (positive) pulse does not change the positions of the particles, since they are already restricted in motion by the walls of the enclosure.
  • the second (negative) pulse exchanges the positions of the colored and white particles, and thus the display switches between black and white states, albeit with transient colors reflecting the relative mobilities of the colored particles. Reversing the starting positions and polarities of the pulses allows for a transition from white to black.
  • this embodiment provides black-white updates that require lower voltages (and consume less power) as compared to other black and white formulations achieved with multiple colors via either a process black or a process white.
  • the first (positive) pulse is of a high positive voltage, sufficient to reduce the mobility of the magenta particles and the black particles. Because of the reduced mobility, the magenta and black particles essentially remain frozen in place, and a subsequent pulse in the opposite direction, of low voltage, moves the cyan, white, and yellow particles more than the magenta and black particles, thereby producing a magenta color at the viewing surface, with the negative white particles behind the magenta and black particles.
  • this pulse sequence would produce a green color (i.e., a mixture of yellow and cyan particles).
  • the first pulse is of a low voltage that does not significantly reduce the mobility of the magenta particles, the black particles, and the white particles.
  • the second pulse is of a high negative voltage that reduces the mobility of the black and magenta particles. This allows more effective racing between the four positive particles, such that the slowest type of particles (yellow in this example) remains visible in front of the white particle, whose movement was diminished with the earlier negative pulse. Notably, the yellow particles do not make it to the top surface of the cavity containing the particles.
  • this pulse sequence would produce a blue color (i.e., a mixture of magenta and cyan particles).
  • FIG. 7E shows that when both pulses are of high voltage, the magenta and black particle mobility is reduced by the first high positive pulse, and the racing between cyan and yellow is enhanced by the reduction in the white particle mobility caused by the second high negative pulse. This produces a red color.
  • this pulse sequence would produce a cyan color.
  • the presence of the black particles in the black optical state provides an improved, more saturated black optical state at the viewing surface. It may also shift the chroma of the process black so that a viewer perceives a “more pure” black. This is especially important when using “dark mode” to read white text on a black background.

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Abstract

Un dispositif d'affichage électrophorétique couleur ayant un état optique noir amélioré comprend un milieu électrophorétique ayant cinq types de particules de pigment électrophorétique chargées dans un fluide non polaire : une première particule ayant une première propriété optique et une première polarité de charge; une deuxième particule ayant une deuxième propriété optique et une seconde polarité de charge opposée avec une première amplitude de charge; une troisième particule ayant une troisième propriété optique et une seconde polarité de charge avec une deuxième amplitude de charge inférieure à la première charge; une quatrième particule ayant une quatrième propriété optique et une seconde polarité de charge avec une troisième amplitude de charge inférieure à la deuxième charge; et une cinquième particule ayant une cinquième propriété optique et une seconde polarité de charge avec une quatrième amplitude de charge supérieure à la première charge. Les première et cinquième particules sont blanches et noires, respectivement, et les deuxième, troisième et quatrième particules sont chacune différentes parmi cyan, magenta et jaune.
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