E Ink Corporation

Andrew A Drabek

Stephen J Telfer

Richard J Paolini, Jr

Kosta Ladavac

Sunil Krishna Sainis

Lee Yezek

Luke M Slominski

Seth J Bishop

Jennifer M Morrison

Brian Steinberg

Samantha Morrill

Crystal Nguyen

Evan Griffith

A magneto-electrophoretic medium that can be globally and locally addressed and erased. The medium provides a writeable display with no perceivable lag and the ability to write and erase with only minimal power requirements. In particular, the magneto-electrophoretic medium can be erased by providing a subthreshold electric stimulus and supplementing a second non-electric stimulus that disturbs the written state and allows the magneto-electrophoretic particles to return to their original state.

Sub-threshold addressing and erasing in a magneto-electrophoretic writing medium

Polymer shells similar to those described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,822,782 can be formed on pigment particles by (a) physi-sorping a reagent comprising polymerizable groups on to the pigment particles by treating the particle with a reagent having a polymerizable or polymerization-initiating group, such that the reagent will not desorb from the particle surface when the particle is placed in a hydrocarbon medium; or (b) treating pigment particles bearing nucleophilic groups with a reagent having a polymerizable or polymerization-initiating group, and an electrophilic group, thus attaching the polymerizable or polymerization-initiating groups to the particle surface. The zeta potential of the pigment particles can be varied by a process similar to (b) but using a reagent which does not have a polymerizable or polymerization-initiating group.

Electrophoretic particles and processes for the production thereof

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Andrew A Drabek