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Article: Will our newspapers be printed on electronic paper?(E Ink and Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs develop electronic paper)(Company Business and Marketing)
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- Network World
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- October 18, 1999
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Lucent and E Ink are collaborating on a futuristic product they describe as electronic paper. The companies say electronic paper could become a new format for the printing and distribution of newspapers and books.
The electronic paper is actually made from flexible plastic sheets similar to transparency pages used with overhead projectors and is made through a process similar to ink-on-paper printing, officials of Lucent's Bell Labs division and E Ink say. The plastic sheets would be covered by plastic transistors developed at Bell Labs that have the same properties as conventional silicon chips - wires, insulators and semiconductors - but are flexible and can be ...