Patent ID: 8482496

Claim:
A display apparatus comprising: a transparent substrate, an array of pixels including a plurality of MEMS light modulators wherein each pixel includes at least one MEMS light modulator, and a control matrix including, a plurality of scan line interconnects running in a first direction, each enabling a plurality of pixels along the first direction to respond to data voltages; and a plurality of data interconnects running in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, each providing data voltages to a plurality of pixels along the second direction; and for each pixel in the array: a set of switches comprising a first switch and a second switch directly connected in series, wherein the first switch and second switch are formed on the transparent substrate, and wherein the first switch and second switch together connect an energy source to at least one MEMS light modulator of the respective pixel, a data switch coupled to a corresponding one of the scan line interconnects and a corresponding one of the data interconnects for controlling the state of the at least one MEMS light modulator of the respective pixel.