Patent ID: 7943202

Claim:
A method of fabricating a static interferometric display device, comprising: using a plurality of sputtering modules to form a plurality of static interferometric elements on a substrate, wherein the static interferometric elements each have a plurality of interferometric sub-elements that are each comprised of an interferometric stack, wherein a first sub-element of each element is formed so that an interferometric modulation of light due to the first element's stack transmits at a first color and a second sub-element of each element is formed so that an interferometric modulation of light due to the second sub-element's stack transmits as a second color, wherein the sub-elements of each element are arranged with respect to each other so that all of the elements appear as a third color to a user if all the sub-elements of each element are left unmasked; and using a printing process to mask one or more sub-elements of one or more elements so as to form, with the elements, a static image having multiple colors.