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Silver Nanowires Get Large

by Ken Werner

The arguments for replacing indium tin oxide (ITO) with non-ITO transparent conductors are powerful and widely known. Although ITO is quite transparent, it is not a very good conductor. Even more important, as flexible …

Tags:Cambrios| ITO Replacement| SID Display Week 2015| Silver Nanowire| Vol 22 - Issue 22

Waiting for Godot

by Ken Werner

It takes a long time to develop novel display technologies. As a result, product designers sometimes express a desire for display characteristics that the industry cannot supply – at least not yet, and maybe …

Tags:display technology| Novel Displays| Pentile| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 20

Flexible OLEDs and Samsung’s “Smartphatch”

by Ken Werner

Last week Samsung Display officially released some details concerning its “most advanced display,” the third-gen flexible OLED used in the Galaxy S6 Edge smart phone. That the new details are now official does not …

Tags:Curved Displays| Flexible Displays| OLEDs| Samsung| Samsung Display| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 18

OLED TV: Second Wind?

by Ken Werner

A combination of company announcements, seemingly reliable reporting and just plain rumors make it reasonable to believe that OLED television is finally getting its second wind. The reliable reporting centers on LG Display increasing …

Tags:LG Displays (LGD)| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 16

The Amazing, Shrinking LED Pixel Pitch

by Ken Werner

Not many years ago, if you went out to buy an LED sign you could choose between a pixel pitch of 6 mm (for viewing at large distances) and a pixel pitch of 12 …

Tags:Digital Signage| Planar| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 22 - Issue 15

E Ink’s New Killer App

by Ken Werner

E Ink still sells a lot of electrophoretic displays (EPDs) for eReaders but, despite the recent introduction of new and significantly improved eReaders, that is now a mature market. So the company is looking …

Tags:DSE 2015| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Vol 22 - Issue 12

Smart Watches are Smart – but are they Sensible?

by Ken Werner

I’m still trying to convince myself that some combination of features and design elements can make smartwatches a large-volume consumer category. Moto 360 (Photo: Ron Amadeo)In 2014, manufacturers shipped 720,000 Android Wear watches according …

Tags:Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 10| Wearable Market

EE LLC: A Million PCs and Nobody Knows Its Name

by Ken Werner

There is a company you’ve probably never heard of whose display technology sits inside a million notebook PCs. Entertainment Experience LLC has developed a total color management system whose mathematical and vision models are …

Tags:Colour Management & Processing| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Did Google Goof?

by Ken Werner

For the first time ever, Motorola Mobility shipped more than 10 million smartphones in the October-December quarter – the first quarter under Lenovo ownership. That’s an increase of 188%. So, did Google goof? Did …

Tags:Lenovo| Motorola| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 06

Quantum Dot Makers at CES

by Ken Werner

At CES, you could see many quantum-dot-enhanced TVs on the show floor, most of which will appear at retailers in the second half of the year. What you could not see on the floor …

Tags:CES 2015| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nanosys| QD Vision| Quantum Dots| Rec 2020| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 03| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

ITO Alternatives at CES

by Ken Werner

There has been much development and even more talk about new transparent-conductor technologies to replace the brittle and not-all-that-conductive indium tin oxide (ITO), which has been the dominant technology for creating patterns on touch …

Tags:Cambrios| Cima Nanotech| ISE 2015| ITO Replacement| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Silver Nanowire| Vol 22 - Issue 03