The ware for October, 2006 is shown below. Click on the image for a much larger version.
I’m running late on the competition, again…Chumby has been keeping me very busy with trips to Japan, Taiwan and China. I’m glad I know a little Japanese and Mandarin, enough to get around…and I suppose if Chumby doesn’t make it, I’ll at least have some pretty fantastic stories to tell my friends when it’s all over. Anyways, I decided this time to pick a ware that may be very easy to guess, but was very pretty. I was poking around at some of the stuff I had laying around my home office and looking at it under my optical microscope, and I thought this was quite visually appealing, and very different from anything else I had put up for the contest previously.
Since I liked the eyecandy so much, I thought I’d also throw in a couple more images that I thought were particularly interesting (some of the images had the color balanced retouched to enhance details):
This last image of the test area of this ware is quite interesting…it has some test devices with very informative labels.
It looks like an LCD touch-screen. I would say the test areas would be used to check the capacitive coupling of two film layers during manufacturing.
Well those terms are certainly a big hint. Indium tin oxide – a transparent conductor. R-SI – a silicon resistor. D and G – drain and gate from transistors.
So we have a transparent substrate with colour filters, transparent conductors and silicon transistors. You can clearly see a matrix structure too. And the track arrangements at the ends of each row look rather like totem pole drivers.
I’d go for a TFT LCD panel. Maybe even a Chumby LCD panel?
In fact, I notice the columns go up to 960. Hmm… that would be 320 RGB colour pixels. So it is a 320×240 pixel display. Same size as the Chumby.
It looks like a JCB card (a credit card).
I agree it looks like an ITO and an RGB display of some type. 240 x 960, I get it to be a 80×320 pixel display.
Possibly a Polymer LED display/device printed atop an ITO device since any nontouch areas on the ITO would be a good anode to the PLED.
Edit: 240/3 = 80, not 60…
Edit: University Professor: You people can now integrate and derive over 95% of all known equations, but you still can not do simple addition and multiplication!