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Dutch scientists have discovered a type of graphene bubble that can change colour as it expands and contracts.
These 'mechanical pixels' could form the basis of screens of the future, which would be more flexible, durable and energy efficient than current LED technology.
The researchers say that, since their initial discovery of the pixels, they have now developed a technique to accurately control their colour changes.
They claim that they are now working on prototypes, and hope to have a screen ready to show off at the Mobile World Congress conference in March 2017.
The researchers made the discovery by setting up silicon panels layered with two thin sheets of graphene.
The silicon panels are pitted with small holes around ten times the width of a human hair, which the graphene layer stretches across like the skin of a drum.
When putting pressure through these cavities, the scientists noticed that the resulting bubbles of graphene changed colour with their size.
As the pressure inside the silicon deviated, the bubbles became concave or convex, shifting how light refracted through the graphene and triggering a series of colour changes.
The Verge
These 'mechanical pixels' could form the basis of screens of the future, which would be more flexible, durable and energy efficient than current LED technology.
The researchers say that, since their initial discovery of the pixels, they have now developed a technique to accurately control their colour changes.
They claim that they are now working on prototypes, and hope to have a screen ready to show off at the Mobile World Congress conference in March 2017.
The researchers made the discovery by setting up silicon panels layered with two thin sheets of graphene.
The silicon panels are pitted with small holes around ten times the width of a human hair, which the graphene layer stretches across like the skin of a drum.
When putting pressure through these cavities, the scientists noticed that the resulting bubbles of graphene changed colour with their size.
As the pressure inside the silicon deviated, the bubbles became concave or convex, shifting how light refracted through the graphene and triggering a series of colour changes.
The Verge