Jacobson and Comiskey are listed as inventors on the original patent filed in 1996. Two years later, E Ink partnered with Philips to develop and market the technology. Albert and Barrett Comiskey, along with Joseph Jacobson (professor in the MIT Media Lab), Jerome Rubin ( LexisNexis co-founder) and Russ Wilcox. The company was co-founded in 1997 by two undergraduates J.D. E Ink Corporation is headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts. They are the manufacturer and distributor of electrophoretic displays, a kind of electronic paper, that they market under the name E Ink. Company history Į Ink Corporation (or simply "E Ink") is a subsidiary of E Ink Holdings (EIH), a Taiwanese Holding Company (8069.TWO) manufacturer. Subsequently, Albert, Comiskey and Jacobson along with Russ Wilcox and Jerome Rubin founded the E Ink Corporation in 1997, two months prior to Albert and Comiskey's graduation from MIT. Ī second patent was filed by MIT for the microencapsulated electrophoretic display in March 1997. This system may satisfy the practical requirements of electronic paper. The use of a microencapsulated electrophoretic medium solves the lifetime issues and permits the fabrication of a bistable electronic display solely by means of printing. Here we report the synthesis of an electrophoretic ink based on the microencapsulation of an electrophoretic dispersion. But such displays have to date suffered from short lifetimes and difficulty in manufacture.
viewing characteristic result in an "ink on paper" look. It has for many years been an ambition of researchers in display media to create a flexible low-cost system that is the electronic analogue of paper. The advantage of the microencapsulated electrophoretic display and its potential for satisfying the practical requirements of electronic paper were summarized in the abstract of the Nature paper: The scientific paper was featured on the cover of Nature, something extremely unusual for work done by undergraduates. A first patent was filed by MIT for the microencapsulated electrophoretic display in October 1996. The result was a system of microcapsules that could be applied to a surface and could then be charged independently to create black and white images. Ĭomiskey experimented with charging and encapsulating those all-white particles in microcapsules mixed in with a dark dye. Albert and Comiskey were told this approach was impossible by most experienced chemists and materials scientists and they had trouble creating these perfectly half-white, half-black spheres during his experiments, Albert accidentally created some all-white spheres. The initial approach was to create tiny spheres which were half white and half black, and which, depending on the electric charge, would rotate such that the white side or the black side would be visible on the display. Albert, a mechanical engineering major, to create the display technology required to realize his vision. Jacobson, in turn, recruited MIT undergrads Barrett Comiskey, a math major, and J.D. Neil Gershenfeld recruited Jacobson for the MIT Media Lab in 1995, after hearing Jacobson's ideas for an electronic book. While a post-doctoral student at Stanford University, physicist Joseph Jacobson envisioned a multi-page book with content that could be changed at the push of a button and required little power to use. The notion of a low-power paper-like display had existed since the 1970s, originally conceived by researchers at Xerox PARC, but had never been realized.
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