Abstract: A method for forming an electronic device having a multilayer structure, comprising: embossing a surface of a substrate so as to depress first and second regions of the substrate relative to at least a third region of the substrate; depositing conductive or semiconductive material from solution onto the first and second regions of the substrate so as to form a first electrode on the first region and a second electrode on the second region, wherein the electrodes are electrically insulated from each other by the third region.

Abstract: A method for generating via-hole interconnections by laser ablation, wherein the layers to be removed and ablated from the substrate are essentially transparent to the laser radiation, but the laser light is absorbed in an underlying absorbing layer with a sufficiently high optical density at the laser wavelength.

Abstract: A semiconductor device architecture where the top pixel electrode is deposited in an off-set configuration, such as to overlap the COM electrode, and also the gate electrode of the neighboring device.

Abstract: We describe a method of displaying a document page with a predetermined size using a display device having edges defining lateral dimensions not substantially larger than said predetermined size and having a central re-writable display portion and a non-re-writable border, said document page comprising a central, foreground portion bearing one or both of text and graphics, a background having a background color and at least one margin having said background color, the method comprising: inputting page data defining a page for display; processing said page data to crop margins of said page such that, when displayed on said re-writable display portion, said non-re-writable border gives the appearance of said cropped margins, said processing generating cropped page data; and outputting said cropped page data for display on said re-writable display portion of said display.

Abstract: Producing a plurality of electronic devices by a technique including photolithographically patterning a layer of conductive material (3), and defining at least one device-specific mark (3a) of a respective one of the plurality of devices as part of photolithographically patterning said layer of conductive material.

Abstract: A method of projected capacitance touch sensing on a display screen, the method comprising: updating said display screen by applying a drive waveform to each pixel of the display screen over a plurality of frame periods, wherein a said drive waveform for a pixel defines a transition of the pixel from a current pixel state to an updated pixel state over said plurality of frame periods, and wherein said updating comprises selecting each row of said display screen in turn for a row driving period and driving columns of the display screen with a time slice of drive waveforms for pixels of the row to perform a frame update of said display screen, and repeating said frame update to drive pixels of said display with a plurality of successive time slices of said drive waveforms to drive said pixels with said drive waveforms; sensing a signal from a projected capacitance touch sensing electrode of said display screen during a sensing interval, and using said sensing to provide a touch sensing response; identifying whe

Abstract: A method updates an image displayed on an electronic display. The image can include a first region having multiple lines and a second region also having multiple lines. The method includes driving the pixels of the first and second regions according to one or more frames. In a first frame, driving the pixels of the first and second regions is done by scanning the lines of the regions from a first end of the first region to a second end of the second region, the second end opposite the first end along a scanning direction. In a second frame, driving the pixels of the first and second regions is done by scanning the lines of the regions from the first end to the second end, and the scanning begins before the scanning according to the first frame reaches the second end.

Abstract: A method of selectively eliminating electrical shorts and other electrical defects from specific layers of a multilayer electronic device without damaging underlying layers. The method is based on a combination of an automated detection of the defects and selective laser ablation patterning (SLAP).

Abstract: A technique comprising: forming a conductive element of an electronic device on a portion of the surface of a first organic layer, applying a second organic layer over said conductive element and said first organic layer, and then treating at least one of the first and second organic layers to increase the strength of adhesion between said first and second organic layers. Thereby the retention of said conductive element on said first organic layer is improved.

Abstract: A technique of producing one or more electronic switching devices, each switching device comprising a semiconductor channel between two electrodes, and a dielectric element separating said semiconductor channel from a switching electrode, the method comprising: depositing onto a substrate a layer of material for at least partly forming said semiconductor channel or said dielectric element of said one or more switching devices by transferring said material onto said substrate from a rotating first roller.

Abstract: An electronic document reading device includes an electronic page having at least one display surface and a page support. The page is attached to the page support such that the page is physically turnable. The device also includes a memory to store at least part of a document to be read and a page driver coupled to the memory, to drive the page display surface to display a first stored portion of the document. The device further includes a sensing system to sense turning of the page and an update control system coupled to the sensing system to control update of the display surface with a second stored portion of the document responsive to sensing of the page turning. The update control system is configured to control the updating such that the updating is at least partially hidden from a viewpoint of a user of the device.

Abstract: A technique comprising: mounting a device substrate on a processing support, forming one or more electronic elements on the device substrate with the device substrate thus mounted on the processing support; wherein the device substrate comprises an organic support structure, and provides primary protection for the overlying electronic elements against the ingress of a degrading species from a side of the device substrate opposite to the one or more electronic elements.

Abstract: A technique comprising: using a laser beam to ablate a target surface (2) via projection lens (12) as part of a process of defining one or more elements of one or more electronic devices, wherein the ablating is performed whilst extracting material ablated from the target surface via an extraction device inlet (6) having at least a portion at a level between said target surface (2) and said projection lens (12) and at the level of a plume of ablated material above said target surface.

Abstract: A technique comprising: producing a plurality of devices according to a common production process; and determining the thickness of a layer of one of said plurality of devices using an indicator of a first electrical property dependent on the area of overlap between a first element of the device and a second element of the device partially underlying said first element via said layer, wherein the method further comprises: additionally using an indicator of a second electrical property dependent on the area of overlap between said first element of the device and a third element of the device also partially underlying said first element via said layer, wherein (a) the difference between (i) a measured indicator of said first electrical property, and (ii) a measured indicator of said second electrical property provides a more reliable indicator of the thickness of said layer than (b) an indicator of said first electrical property.

Abstract: A technique, comprising defining at least part of one or more electronic devices on a substrate sheet by means of one or more material removal processes, wherein the substrate sheet is arranged on a lower layer so as to overhang said lower layer more at a first end than it does at an opposite, second end; and removing loose material from under said overhang at said first end by means of a stream of gas directed at said substrate and said lower layer from an outlet, said stream of gas having at said outlet at least a directional component parallel to a direction from said second end to said first end.

Abstract: A technique comprising: forming a plurality of smaller substrates from one or more larger substrates by a reduction process according to which there is some possible variation size between the smaller substrates within a variation range; and, in advance of said reduction process, providing said one or more larger substrates with one or more detection marks whose size and location are selected such that after the reduction process each smaller substrate includes a portion of at least one of said one or more detection marks, said portion having one or more edges that coincide with at least a part of one or more edges of the smaller substrate whatever actual size the smaller substrate has within said variation range.

Abstract: A technique comprising: determining a correction to a drive voltage for the front plane common electrode of a first display device according to the result of one or more measurements of an optical property for the first display device and the result of one or more measurements of said optical property for one or more other devices including an optical medium having the same optical response as the first display device.

Abstract: A technique comprising: assembling together a front plane (1) comprising a first flexible substrate (4) supporting a display medium (6a) and a backplane (2) comprising a second flexible substrate (8) supporting an array of electronic elements (9) for controlling said display medium; and creating an electrically conductive connection between first and second conductive elements (5 10) on opposing faces of the frontplane and backplane by sandwiching an electrically conductive structure (3) between the frontplane and backplane in the region of the first and second conductive elements, wherein the conductive structure is at least more flexible than the least flexible one of the front plane and backplane.

Abstract: A touch sensitive active matrix display device is provided. The device includes a display fabricated on a first flexible substrate, said display having a viewing surface. The device further includes a touch sensitive sensor including a second flexible substrate, under said display. The touch sensor is operated by touching said viewing surface of said display, and said combined display and touch sensitive sensor is flexible.