Stc, Inc

Northern Telecom Limited

Peter J Ayliffe

Anthony Bernard Davey

James Wilson Parker

Robert George Peall

Paul Mark Harrison

Martin Christopher Geear

Peter F Blomley

Gregory W Yuen

Roger William Harcourt

Stefano Bertolini

Johannes K Zelisse

Ewen R Huffman

This disclosure relates to the fabrication of components on a single crystal substrate. A method is disclosed of overcoming the problems encountered in defining etched features on a silicon substrate. In particular, there is disclosed a method of producing a multichip module comprising a silicon substrate having surface features for the placement of components. An organic dielectric is applied to the substrate prior to the use of an etchant whereby interconnects can be defined.

Crystal substrate processing

A method of making a multilayer printed circuit upon a single crystal substrate for the mounting thereon of a semiconductor laser and an optical fibre pigtail located in a crystallographically etched groove in the substrate wherein all the photolithographic processing required to create the multilayer printed circuit is performed prior to the etching of the groove.

Providing optical coupling with single crystal substrate mounted

A drive circuit for a liquid crystal display uses a sampling technique to derive drive signals from a pair of input waveforms. The waveforms comprise positive going and negative going trapezoidal pulses. By sampling the waveforms at appropriate points, single cycle AC signals and zero voltage signals can be provided. The technique subjects the drive circuit to a voltage stress that is lower than that provided by conventional techniques.

Liquid crystal driving systems

A method of addressing a matrix addressed ferroelectric liquid crystal cell is described that uses parallel entry of balanced bipolar data pulses on one set of electrodes to co-operate with serial entry of unipolar strobe pulses on the other set of electrodes. Data entry is preceded with blanking (erasing) pulses applied to the strobe lines. The polarity of the strobing and blanking pulses is periodically reversed to maintain charge balance in the long term.

Addressing liquid crystal cells using bipolar data strobe pulses

Addressing liquid crystal cells using unipolar strobe pulses

In operating a display device incorporating a matrix addressed smectic cell, a strobing pulse is applied to each row electrode in turn while data pulses are applied in parallel to the column electrodes. The data pulse voltage excursion is less than the minimum voltage V.sub.T required to switch the cell. For the entry of complete rows the strobing voltage excursion is made larger than twice V.sub.T for fast data entry. For entry of rows in successive segments (e.g. for single character entry) the strobing voltage is less than twice V.sub.T so that successive strobing pulses applied to a single line may be of longer duration but cannot give rise to spurious switching of unselected pixels.

Addressing smectic displays

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