AREA ARRAY MODULATION AND LEAD REDUCTION IN INTERFEROMETRIC MODULATORS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a light modulator capable of displaying additional shades of gray in monochrome display and additional colors in color display.SOLUTION: A light modulator comprises: an array comprising rows and columns of interferometric display elements, each element being divided into one or more sub-elements of one or more sub-rows; array connection lines configured to transmit operating signals to the display elements, where one connection line corresponds to one row of display elements in the array; sub-array connection lines electrically connected to each array connection line; and a plurality of switches configured to transmit the operating signals from each array connection line to the sub-rows to effect image data modulation.