The electroluminescent threads — which can emit blue, green or yellow light — consist of a coating of zinc sulfide phosphors and thermoplastic polyurethane on a conductive thread. They are stitched into the fabric together with transparent conductive threads, made of silver-nanowire-coated nylon fibre, to form pixels where they overlap. The researchers show that a variety of designs can be embroidered into a textile at a rate of 350 stitches per minute. The light-emitting pixels showed little degradation of intensity after 10,000 cycles of 20% strain and 50 machine washing cycles. To illustrate its use for wearable displays, a 6 × 3 pixels array was added to a football helmet liner, which displayed the results from an accelerometer when the helmet was subjected to different severities of mechanical impact.

电致发光线可以发出蓝光、绿光或黄光，由导电线上的硫化锌荧光粉和热塑性聚氨酯涂层组成。它们与由银纳米线涂层尼龙纤维制成的透明导电线一起缝入织物中，在重叠处形成像素。研究人员表明，各种设计可以以每分钟 350 针的速度绣在纺织品上。经过 10,000 次 20% 应变循环和 50 次机洗循环后，发光像素的强度几乎没有下降。为了说明其在可穿戴显示器中的用途，我们在橄榄球头盔内衬中添加了 6 × 3 像素阵列，该阵列显示头盔受到不同严重程度的机械冲击时加速度计的结果。