Emerging digital micromirror device (DMD) applications

Dana Dudley; Walter M. Duncan; John Slaughter

doi:10.1117/12.480761

20 January 2003 Emerging digital micromirror device (DMD) applications

Dana Dudley, Walter M. Duncan, John Slaughter

Proceedings Volume 4985, MOEMS Display and Imaging Systems; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.480761
Event: Micromachining and Microfabrication, 2003, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

For the past six years, Digital Light Processing technology from Texas Instruments has made significant inroads in the projection display market. With products enabling the world’s smallest data and video projectors, HDTVs, and digital cinema, DLP technology is extremely powerful and flexible. At the heart of these display solutions is Texas Instruments Digital Micromirror Device (DMD), a semiconductor-based “light switch” array of thousands of individually addressable, tiltable, mirror-pixels. With success of the DMD as a spatial light modulator for projector applications, dozens of new applications are now being enabled by general-use DMD products that are recently available to developers. The same light switching speed and “on-off” (contrast) ratio that have resulted in superior projector performance, along with the capability of operation outside the visible spectrum, make the DMD very attractive for many applications, including volumetric display, holographic data storage, lithography, scientific instrumentation, and medical imaging. This paper presents an overview of past and future DMD performance in the context of new DMD applications, cites several examples of emerging products, and describes the DMD components and tools now available to developers.

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Dana Dudley, Walter M. Duncan, and John Slaughter "Emerging digital micromirror device (DMD) applications", Proc. SPIE 4985, MOEMS Display and Imaging Systems, (20 January 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.480761

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