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SID 2017 Report: Is StoreDot Shifting Focus Away from OLEDs?

by Ken Werner

We first became interested in StoreDot a couple of years ago at CES when they showed organic molecules that have properties similar to those of quantum dots. (StoreDot: An Organic Quantum Dot Alternative) This …

Tags:Batteries| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 23

SID 2017 Report: Merck Discusses Flexible LCDs

by Ken Werner

Apologies, because of some production issues, these items were omitted from our main SID 2017 report. Among the many things Merck representatives were happy to discuss at their Display Week booth was the continuing …

SID 2017 Report: 3M Adds More Display Films to its Arsenal

by Ken Werner

Apologies, because of some production issues, these items were omitted from our main SID 2017 report. Among the many optical films 3M showed in its booth at SID Display Week, was an optimized phone …

PixelDisplay: Old Wine in a New Bottle

by Ken Werner

PixelDisplay CTO, David Wyatt, is a passionate salesman, and he frequently gathered a small crowd around him as he discussed the introduction of his company’s Vivid Color light-source technology at his I-Zone booth at …

Tags:LED| Phosphors| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 22

An Interview with Universal Display Corp.

by Ken Werner

On the Monday of Display Week, I sat down on a flight of stairs at the Los Angeles Convention Center for an interview with Janice DuFour (formerly Janice Mahon), VP of Tech Commercialization and …

Cynora Promises High-Efficiency Blue TADF OLED in 2017

by Ken Werner

Cynora CMO Andreas Haldi began his presentation at the SID/DSCC Business Conference by saying, “We are very happy that OLEDs are not still perfect.” As evidence of the “booming” market in OLEDs, he cited …

A Better On-Chip Red Phosphor from GE (and Samsung?)

by Ken Werner

In a Display Week booth, General Electric showed its RadiantRed TriGain red phosphor which is intended to be used within an LED package. The phosphor consists of Potassium Silicon Fluoride (PSF) doped with Mn4+, …

Nanoco and Kyulux to Develop and Market Their Technologies Collaboratively

by Ken Werner

During Display Week, British quantum-dot (QD) developer Nanoco and German Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence (TADF) developer Kyulux announced a collaboration and joint development agreement. The announcement called each of the partners a “world leader” …

The Next Step for Quantum Dots

by Ken Werner

In their booth on the floor of the Society for Information Display’s Display Week at the Los Angeles Convention Center yesterday, some of the folks at quantum-dot-maker Nanosys seemed almost giddy. Samsung’s 2017 QLED …

Tags:Nanosys| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 20

This is War!

by Ken Werner

Nobody at Samsung will quite say they are at war with OLED-TV, but it’s not hard to read between the lines. Since its final, grudging flirtation with OLED-TV a couple of years ago, Samsung …

Tags:OLED TVs| QLED| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 18

Three Premium 2017 LCD-TVs Plot Different Paths to Enhanced Performance

by Ken Werner

The white LEDs used in conventional LCD-TV backlight units — which are actually blue LEDs with a broadband yellow phosphor inside the package — produce a white light that has insufficient output and purity …

Tags:Colour (Color)| LCD Backlights| LED| Quantum Dots| Vol 24 - Issue 16

THX Goes Small

by Ken Werner

THX Ltd., founded by George Lucas in 1983, started by certifying studios and cinemas to “guarantee an artist’s vision is truthfully delivered to audiences worldwide.” Over the years, THX has expanded its certification programs …

Tags:Colour Certification| Notebooks| THX| Vol 24 - Issue 14