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DuPont Displays’ Target: A $1000 OLED-TV by 2020

by Ken Werner

It is widely agreed that if OLED is to be truly cost-competitive with LCD for television applications, the OLED materials must be printed instead of being deposited by vacuum thermal evaporation as they are …

Tags:DuPont| OLED Materials| Solution Processing| Vol 22 - Issue 39

What will Apple Do Next?

by Ken Werner

Whenever I hear this question, my curmudgeonly inclination is to answer, “Who cares?” Perhaps a better question is “What revolutionary new product would allow Apple to continue earning profit margins far larger than the …

Tags:Apple| Apple Watch (iWatch)| Vol 22 - Issue 37

Are the Folks at QD Vision Worried?

by Ken Werner

Although QD Vision’s message at Display Week in San Jose was bullish, if I worked there I’d be worried. Why is that? TV set architecture is progressing along two parallel paths: 1) Very thin …

Tags:QD Vision| Quantum Dots| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 22 - Issue 35

Trying to Make Portable Devices Exciting Again

by Ken Werner

Makers of eReaders, especially Amazon, are still selling a lot of eReaders; and makers of tablet PCs are still selling a lot of tablet PCs. But sales of eReaders have been stable for years …

Tags:Flexible Displays| LG Displays (LGD)| phablets| Samsung Display| Vol 22 - Issue 33

Flexible OLED Manufacturing Ramps Up

by Ken Werner

In late July, LG Display announced it will invest KRW 1.05 trillion (USD 902 million) in a Gen 6 line for manufacturing flexible OLEDs (LGD to Invest $906 Million in G6 OLED Fab – …

Tags:AMOLED| Flexible Displays| LG Displays (LGD)| Samsung Display| Tianma

“The Only Disruptive Technology at Display Week”

by Ken Werner

At SID Display Week, in an aisle on the show floor, I had a brief conversation with Candice Brown-Elliott, Nouvoyance CEO and creator of the Pentile Matrix pixel configuration widely used in Samsung OLED …

Tags:MicroLED| Vol 22 - Issue 30

How Sharp Makes Its “Free-form” Displays

by Ken Werner

For some time, Sharp has been showing examples of its “free-form” displays, which do both the “row” and “column” driving through one edge of the display, leaving the rest of the display to be …

Tags:Free Form Displays| sharp| Vol 22 - Issue 28

Three Nuggets from CE Week

by Ken Werner

Nature abhors a vacuum, and the Consumer Electronics Association abhors a season without one of their trade shows in it. For some years, the one-time early-summer lacuna has been filled by CE Week in …

Tags:CE Week| Dolby Atmos| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Quantum Dots: The Plot Thickens

by Ken Werner

A lot of the conversation about quantum dots at Display Week revolved around the European Commission’s rejection of their own technical committee’s recommendation that cadmium-based quantum dots continue to be exempt from prohibition as …

Tags:3M (MMM)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nanosys| QD Vision| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Transparent Flexible Conductors Proliferate at Display Week

by Ken Werner

You could make a case for Transparent Flexible Conductors (TFCs) based on thinness, lightweight and ruggedness even when they are being applied to displays with rigid substrates. Now that flexible displays are entering the …

Tags:Flexible Displays| ITO Replacement| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Display Glass at SID Display Week 2015 – Du Pont/Kateeva to Print OLEDs?

by Ken Werner

Without new materials and new manufacturing processes, display evolution is just – for the most part – evolutionary. On the show floor at Display Week, we saw three major categories of new and evolving …

Tags:Asahi Glass Corporation (AGC)| Corning| DuPont| Glass| InkJet Deposition| Kateeva| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NEG| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Sharp Shows Aquos 4K Line to the New York Press

by Ken Werner

Yesterday (June 10) at a Lower West Side exhibit space in New York, Sharp showed media people its line-up of Aquos UHD-TVs now hitting retailer’s floors and websites in the US. Sets were exhibited …

Tags:sharp| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 24