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Imec, UGent Unveil Breakthrough in Augmented Reality Contact Lens

Curved LCD display holds widespread potential for medical and cosmetic applications

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

The Centre of Microsystems Technology (CMST), imec’s associated laboratory at Ghent University (Belgium), announced it has developed an innovative spherical curved LCD display, which can be embedded in contact lenses. The first step toward fully pixelated contact lens displays, this achievement has potential wide-spread applications in medical and cosmetic domains. Unlike LED-based contact lens displays, which are limited to a few small pixels, imec’s innovative LCD-based technology perm...

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