Self assembling display with substrate

• US 8,300,007 B2
• Filed: 08/02/2006
• Issued: 10/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Enterprise Science Fund, LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Hillis, W. Daniel, Myhrvold, Nathan P., Tegreene, Clarence T., Wood, Lowell L. Jr., Wood, Victoria Y. H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Boddie, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): SCHNIREL, ANDREW B
• Application Number:
  US11/497,793
• Publication Number:
  US 20070030220A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,281 Days
• Field of Search: 345/107
• US Class Current: 345/107
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/02 by a carrier person or animal
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 9/30 in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements panels comprising a number of electrodes in a single cell controlling light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. electro-optical or magneto-optical cell, G02F1/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/95101 in a liquid medium
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/95145 Electrostatic alignment, i.e. polarity alignment with Coulomb charges
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 24/95 at chip-level, i.e. with connecting carried out on a plurality of singulated devices, i.e. on diced chips
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/00 Indexing scheme for arrangements or methods for connecting or disconnecting semiconductor or solid-state bodies as covered by H01L24/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/12041 LED
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/14 Integrated circuits

Abstract

Various embodiments of methods and systems for designing and constructing displays from multiple light-modulating elements are disclosed. Display elements having different light-modulating and self-assembling characteristics may be used during display assembly and operation.

Claims

1. A display comprising:

a) a substrate including a plurality of receptor locations, each of the plurality of receptor locations including a shape, size or surface characteristic; and

b) a plurality of preassembled display elements located at said plurality of receptor locations, each of the plurality of preassembled display elements including at least one first sub-element attached to at least one second sub-element, the at least one first sub-element having a first shape, size or surface characteristic and including a first light-modulating element of a first wavelength band and the at least one second sub-element having a second shape, size or surface characteristic and including a second light-modulating element of a second wavelength band; and

wherein at each of said receptor locations, the shape, size or surface characteristic of said receptor location is complementary to a shape, size or surface characteristic of the preassembled display element located at said receptor location, the shape, size or surface characteristic of said preassembled display element at said receptor location defined by the combination of the first shape, size or surface characteristic of the at least one first sub-element of said preassembled display element and the second shape, size or surface characteristic of the at least one second sub-element of said preassembled display element; and

wherein the first wavelength band and the second wavelength band differ from one another.

2. The display of claim 1, wherein the at least one first light-modulating element includes at least one first light-emitting element and the at least one second light-modulating element includes at least one second light-emitting element.

3. The display of claim 1, wherein the at least one first light-modulating element modulates light in a first wavelength dependent manner by at least one of fluorescing, frequency-converting, scattering, absorbing, reflecting or diffracting light and the at least one second light-modulating element modulates light in a second wavelength dependent manner by at least one of fluorescing, frequency-converting, scattering, absorbing, reflecting, and diffracting light;

wherein the first wavelength dependent manner differs from the second wavelength dependent manner.

6. The display of claim 1, wherein at least one said preassembled display element includes a unique identifier.

7. The display of claim 1, wherein at least one said preassembled display element is capable of storing identifying information.

8. The display of claim 7, wherein said identifying information is updatable.

9. The display of claim 1, wherein at least one of said first or second light-modulating element varies one or more of intensity, brightness, irradiance, polarization, color content, duration, pulse format, or overall energy of light incident on said first or second light-modulating element.

10. The display of claim 1, wherein at least one said preassembled display element is responsive to a control signal.

11. The display of claim 10, wherein said at least one preassembled display element turns on or off in response to said control signal.

12. The display of claim 10, wherein an intensity, brightness, irradiance, polarization, direction-of-emission, or spectral content of light produced by said at least one preassembled display element is modulated in response to said control signal.

13. The display of claim 10, wherein said control signal includes electromagnetic or acoustic energy.

14. The display of claim 10, wherein said control signal includes an electrical, magnetic, acoustic or optical signal.

15. The display of claim 1, wherein said substrate includes a surface characteristic that influences the orientation of said preassembled display elements with respect to said surface.

16. The display of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of receptor locations has a surface characteristic that includes a binding affinity of at least one amino acid sequence, nucleotide sequence, saccharide sequence, protein, or glycoprotein.

17. The display of claim 1, wherein said substrate includes an electrical, acoustic or optical contact for transmitting power or data signals to said preassembled display elements.

18. The display of claim 1, wherein said plurality of preassembled display elements comprises between two and ten different preassembled display element types.

19. The display of claim 18, wherein each preassembled display element type has a different respective shape, size or surface characteristic than each other preassembled display element type.

4. A display comprising:

a) a substrate including a plurality of receptor locations, each of the plurality of receptor locations including a shape, size or surface characteristic; and

b) a plurality of preassembled display elements located at said plurality of receptor locations, each of the plurality of preassembled display elements including at least one first sub-element and at least one second sub-element attached to a carrier, the at least one first sub-element including a first light emitting element of a first wavelength band and the at least one second sub-element including a second light emitting element of a second wavelength band;

wherein at each of said receptor locations, the shape, size or surface characteristic of said receptor location is complementary to a shape, size or surface characteristic of the preassembled display element located at said location; and

wherein the first wavelength band and the second wavelength band differ from one another.

20. The display of claim 4, wherein said carrier includes a polymeric material.

21. The display of claim 4, wherein said carrier includes a semiconductor material.

22. The display of claim 4, wherein said shape, size, or surface characteristic of said carrier includes at least one surface biomolecule.

23. The display of claim 4, wherein said carrier includes at least one control signal input.

5. A display comprising:

a) a substrate including a plurality of receptor locations, each of the plurality of receptor locations including a shape, size or surface characteristic; and

b) a plurality of preassembled display elements located at said plurality of receptor locations, each of the plurality of preassembled display elements including at least one first, second and third sub-elements, the at least one first sub-element having a first shape, size or surface characteristic and including a first light-emitting element of a first wavelength band, the at least one second sub-element having a second shape, size or surface characteristic and including a second light-emitting element of a second wavelength band and the at least one third sub-element having a third shape, size or surface characteristic and including a third light-emitting element of a third wavelength band;

wherein at each of said receptor locations, the shape, size or surface characteristic of said receptor location is complementary to a shape, size or surface characteristic of the preassembled display element located at said location, the shape, size or surface characteristic of said preassembled display element located at said receptor location defined by the combination of the first shape, size or surface characteristic of the at least one first sub-element of said preassembled display element, the second shape, size or surface characteristic of the at least one second sub-element of said preassembled display element, and the third shape, size or surface characteristic of the at least one third sub-element of said preassembled display element; and

wherein the first wavelength band, the second wavelength band, and the third wavelength band differ from one another.

24. The display of claim 5, wherein at least one said preassembled display element is responsive to a control signal.

25. The display of claim 5, wherein an intensity, brightness, irradiance, polarization, direction-of-emission, or spectral content of light produced by said at least one preassembled display element is modulated in response to said control signal.