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Philips Research, Holst Centre and imec Illustrate Feasibility of Autonomous Smart Windows

Demonstrated how an e-Skin panel could be powered by energy harvested from a mobile phone

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

At the 17th International Display Workshops (IDW ‘10) in Fukuoka, Japan in December 2010, a demonstration was presented that showed how an e-Skin panel, developed by Philips Research, could be powered by energy harvested from a mobile phone. Thanks to an RF energy harvester developed by Holst Centre and imec, the e-Skin device could be switched from black to transparent (and vice versa) without the need of a battery. The combined effort illustrates the feasibility of applications such as ene...

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