Objective
Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) combines two very well-known technologies, namely the IC/CMOS and the Liquid Crystal (LC) technologies. As both of these are very mature, it is obvious that LCOS has a huge potential for very high-end applications, more than any other (projection) technology.
The aim of the FORK project is the development of a LCOS microdisplay device for very diverse applications in simulation, medical imaging, control rooms and digital cinema. These applications require or benefit from very high pixel counts, high contrast ratio's, very high light fluxes and very good colour and brightness uniformity, analog pixel addressing and high response times.
While some non-European suppliers have announced microdisplay devices for the applications mentioned above, we are not aware of any devices which meet all of these criteria.
In order to meet all of these criteria, additional challenging research is needed in the field of LCOS backplane and driver design, LCOS backplane processing, IC (Integrated Circuit) stitching, new or improved Liquid Crystal (LC) mixtures, LC assembly and thermal design and packaging.
The FORK project consortium gathers European competence centres, each having expertise in one or more of the technology fields mentioned above. This consortium has drawn an ambitious though realistic workplan in which the targeted project objectives can be reached successfully.
The European display and semiconductor industry is under strong international competition, mainly from greater China and other Asian countries. A possible way to escape from the cost pressure is to differentiate by specialties and added-value features generated by innovation, IP and know-how. These values will be generated with the objectives of the FORK project.
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