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Blue Laser Annealing Excites Researchers

by Ken Werner

At the recent imaginary (or is that virtual?) SID Display Week, two optimistic papers outlined advances in blue laser annealing (BLA) as a higher quality, less expensive, and much more scalable alternative to excimer …

Tags:Blue Laser Annealing (BLA)| Excimer Laser ELA| LTPS TFT

This Time, Fluidic Self-Assembly is Working

by Ken Werner

In April, eLux, Inc. (Vancouver, WA) announced it had achieved two milestones on the road to commercial development of microLED displays, the first being the optimization and automation of its fluidic assembly process. Before …

Tags:MicroLED| Production Technology

Double Barreled OLED Story

by Ken Werner

Think of an old-style, side-by-side, double-barreled shotgun. Each of those barrels contains a story about a very interesting recent development in TV-sized OLED display panels. But the barrels are twisted so they fire in …

Tags:LG Displays (LGD)| OLED TVs| QD OLEDs| Samsung

LG Board of Directors Guillotines Moribund Smart Phone Business

by Ken Werner

In 1789 Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a member of the French National Assembly, spearheaded the passing of a law that required all death sentences to be carried out by “means of a machine,” so decapitations …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Smartphones

What’s a Kyulux?

by Ken Werner

The subject is emitting materials for OLED displays. Let’s review. What are now called first-generation materials were (and are) fluorescent emitters. Without troubling you with molecular quantum mechanics, these materials eventually create a maximum …

Tags:OLED Materials| R&D (Research & Development)| TADF

E Ink Launches Kaleido Plus: Significantly Improved Color eReader Display

by Ken Werner

E Ink launched the first geration of its Kaleido color eReader display in Q2 2020. Conceptually, the Kaleido was not unlike previous E Ink color eReader displays. That is, it was an active-matrix monochrome …

Tags:E Ink| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Reflective Display

Two New Things

by Ken Werner

Thing 1. Ford Develops Analog Volume Control that Isn’t for Mustang Mach-E As best I can tell from Ford’s photo of the Mustang Mach-E’s display and control suite, the only mechanical controls are on …

Tags:Automotive| E Ink| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Touch Controllers

The Classroom of the Future

by Ken Werner

I, like all other CES 2021 registrants, have been receiving emails from the Consumer Technology Association to please, please log in to CES 2021 before it goes off line in a couple of weeks. …

Tags:Covid-19| Education

TADF Is the Future of OLED, but the Future Comes Slowly

by Ken Werner

Earlier this month Cynora — the German company that is one of the two leading developers of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters for next-gen OLED displays — announced customer availability of the “industry’s …

Tags:OLED Materials| TADF

But I’m Not Going to Talk About That

by Ken Werner

Perhaps the most significant display-related announcement at this year’s imaginary CES concerned TCL Electronics’ development of a miniLED display module with zero optical distance between the miniLED and LCD layers. But I’m not going …

More on LG’s MiniLED TVs to Wrap up 2020

by Ken Werner

This is the last Display Daily of 2020. I will try to make it horrible to match the year. Two weeks ago, I mentioned that LG would be introducing 4K and 8K 70-inch miniLED …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| QNED| Quantum Dots| TVs (TV Sets)

The New Generation of LCD-TVs

by Ken Werner

Yeah, I know. Every time the bezel gets narrower or the “smart TV” interface gets a re-skin, it’s a “new generation.” But I’m talking about a significant technical improvement viewers can really see, and …

Tags:MiniLED| Samsung| TCL| TVs (TV Sets)