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UniPixel™ panels will be much simpler to fabricate because they have significantly fewer layers than plasma screens or LCD screens. Moreover, UniPixel™’s layers require less precision registration.

• Panels start with a light guide substrate composed of either glass or plastic.
• We then build a simple capacitor structure on top of it. That structure functions as an “optical shutter” at each pixel. A layer of transparent conductor comprises the first layer.
• A patterned stand-off bonding layer that embeds the TFTs keeps the micro-optic structures from touching the conductor.
• An active layer of P.E.T.-type film above attached by the bonding layer is the only moving part in the structure.
• We place a conductive ground plane on the P.E.T. surface as the top plate in the capacitor at each individual pixel.
• This creates a capacitor – two conductive layers separated by a dielectric or insulator. Oppositely charging the conductor layers creates Coulomb Attraction. That drives the opening and closing of the pixel by alternately pulling layers together and releasing them.
• Finally, we place micro optic structures in the Opcuity Active Layer that control light distribution through the surface focusing light output toward the viewer or modifying the viewing properties for the application.
• These layers on top of the light guide are less than 12 microns thick in total.

We believe the output will be superior to anything on the market. Plus the structure and process is so simplified, we believe that higher yielding panel manufacturing will be possible, enabling a quantum leap in production methods over today's factories. Hence our motto, “Simply superior.”