EETimes meldt dat Sharp een nieuwe technologie heeft uitgedokterd weermee LCD's met grotere afmetingen en een hogere helderheid mogelijk worden. Deze 'Ultra High Aparture' technologie zal voor het eerste toegepast worden in 28" flatpanel van NTT Corp. Het scherm heeft een resolutie van 2560 bij 2048 pixels . De UHA displays hebben als bijkomend voordeel dat het stroomverbruik bij een gelijke helderheid circa 20% lager is:
Sharp Corp. announced an LCD technology last week that will take its active-matrix displays into new realms of size and resolution. The ultra-high-aperture (UHA) technology will debut in a 28-inch-diagonal screen with more than 5 million pixels that NTT Corp. will incorporate into a monitor by year's end for such applications as medical imaging and museum archiving.
[...] The pixel aperture of UHA technology is about 20 percent larger than in Sharp's previous active-matrix silicon LCDs, according to the company. One result is that for comparable brightness, the new LCD's power dissipation will be about 20 percent lower. Alternatively, the display will be able to crank out higher brightness than a conventional LCD at the same power level.
[...] Sharp has developed UHA prototypes of both a 28-inch and a 6.4-inch LCD. The 28-inch display features a 2,560 x 2048-pixel quadruple-SXGA format, 116-pixel/inch resolution and 180-nit brightness, and it consumes 72 watts. The 6.4-inch display, in a 1,024 x 768-pixel XGA format with 202-pixel/inch resolution, provides a 62 percent aperture ratio, according to Sharp. The smaller display will be offered in both backlit and reflective versions for mobile Internet appliances. Production will begin next spring.