"MEMS: DLP pioneer tells how TI did it with mirrors"

Solid-state physicist and Texas Instruments Inc. fellow Larry Hornbeck won an Emmy for his invention of the digital micromirror device (DMD), the microelectromechanical system at the heart of TI's digital light processing (DLP) technology for projection displays. In addition to advancing the state of the art for digital cinema, front projectors and HDTV, Hornbeck's MEMS micromirror is enabling 3-D metrology systems that measure with finer detail, confocal microscopes that eliminate the out-of-focus "haze" normally seen around fluorescent samples, and holographic storage systems that write data in three dimensions instead of just two. Hornbeck told EE Times' R. Colin Johnson that TI has still more applications up its sleeve for digital micromirrors.
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