Mirasol displays eliminate the need for backlights by reflecting light between two conductive plates.
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This dispersion was used to dip-coat strips of filter paper, rendering the paper conductive.
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Worse, it also requires the use of conductive gel, which hardly makes for a consumer-friendly product.
It makes use of a completely different, highly manufacturable material for creating transparent, conductive films.
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Electricity, meanwhile, is delivered via a conductive brush that sweeps around a metal ring in the stationary base.
Senior Research Fellow at the London College of Fashion, Dr. Frances Geesin has worked on researching conductive fabrics.
According to Johnson, the online encyclopedia provided them with almost everything they needed to know about crafting conductive materials.
Johnson says that conductive paint opens up an enormous range of creative opportunities.
Xerox is experimenting with its own conductive inks for making electronic paper and circuitry for flat screen monitors and billboards.
Any material that has even the tiniest bit of conductive capability can be a touch sensor with the Makey Makey.
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Cambrios also announced the commercialization of their ClearOhm transparent conductive film, now on the market in a leading smart phone.
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It had two styli connected to pendulums joined to a wire and could reproduce writing on an electrically conductive surface.
The substance, which is derived from graphite, is stronger than diamond, more conductive than copper and more flexible than rubber.
Coatue, which has been working on conductive organic polymers for memory chips, has had major support from Sunnyvale microprocessor maker AMD.
Conductive hearing loss can often be caused by malformations of the external or middle ear or by severe middle ear infections.
Precisia's president, James Rohrkemper, believes that the use of conductive inks and high-speed printing processes could cut antenna costs by 50%.
For the switch, I sewed paths of conductive thread that become bridged by the metal zipper pull when it passes by.
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Digits conductive glove pins allow you to attach special fingertips to any of your gloves to allow them to use a touchscreen.
The cotton fibers are made conductive by coating the fibers, first with gold nanoparticles, and then with a thin layer of PEDOT.
Big hint: They're printed on the board, on strands of conductive ink.
Doping (adding the element niobium to the chemistry), as well as reducing the size of the material to nanoscale, makes it more conductive.
The privately held company was founded in 2002 as a spinout from Carnegie Mellon University, based upon conductive polymer technology developed by Dr. Richard McCullough.
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It is electrically and thermally conductive, is strong and is transparent.
Conductive inks, which typically contain silver flake, carbon and other resins, have been around since the 1970s, when they were introduced in keyboards and windshield defrosters.
Using a conductive capacitor that is integrated as part of the pen, it connects to an electromagnetic field generated by an excitation coil in the digitizer.
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The electronic tongue consists of an array of liquid sensors (electrodes coated with conductive polymers) coupled to pattern-recognition technology that can distinguish particular flavors for taste studies.
Although the fibre in question could not conduct electricity, the same technique should work with conductive molecules, which could serve as minute diodes and other circuit components.
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