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Samsung Develops World’s First Truly Double-sided LCD

by Darren

Have you ever wanted to watch TV on both sides of a Double-sided LCD panel? Probably not, but the great thing is, you can now if you want, thanks to Samsung. The accomplishment is fairly remarkable. The Samsung LCD can display entirely different images on either side of the LCD.

The breakthrough LCD product makes use of Samsung’s new double-gate, thin-film transistor (TFT) architecture. TFT gates are electronic components that convert the necessary voltage at the pixel level, which controls the liquid crystal alignment needed to reproduce on-screen images. Samsung’s new double-sided LCD has two gates that operate each pixel instead of one, so the screen on the front can display different images than the one on the back. The double-sided display makes use of Samsung’s proprietary Amorphous Silicon Gate (ASG) technology, which accommodates the increased number of TFT gates without increasing the size of the driver integrated circuits. Driver-ICs typically increase in size when more TFT gates are used.

The company is showing the unit at this year’s CES. This is another example of the quantum leaps that LCD manufactures have taken in the last few years.

No word on whether this will be available commercially, but we’ll keep our eye out for news.

For more information: Samsung