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Team Develops a Backplane Material Better than LTPS

by Ken Werner

In February a team of researchers from Binghamton University (Binghamton, New York), Blue Wave Semiconductors (Baltimore, Maryland), and Solar-Tectic LLC (Briarcliff Manor, New York) published an article in Elsevier Material Letters reporting “the growth …

Tags:Amorphous TFT| LTPS TFT| Vol 25 - Issue 22

TADF Players on the Show Floor Ranged from C to K

by Ken Werner

TADF (thermally activated delayed fluorescence) is a clever quantum-mechanical trick that permits us to make use of the the three quarters of quantum states in fluorescent OLED emitters that are usually unavailable, thus increasing …

X-Celeprint Shows 5.1-inch MicroLED Display

by Ken Werner

At SID Display Week, X-Celeprint has been showing, behind closed doors, a technology demonstration of its 5.1-inch microLED Display. This is the largest microLED display using a micro transfer printing process of which I’m …

Tags:MicroLED| SID Display Week 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 20

The New New Thing

by Ken Werner

It takes a minimum of 20 years for a new display technology to go from concept to commercial product, if it ever does. At SID Display Week 2014 in San Diego, display luminaries celebrated …

Tags:MicroLED| PDP| SID Display Week 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 13

Palomaki and Bertram Uncover LG’s “Nano Cell” Secret

by Ken Werner

In a tightly reasoned article on Peter Palomaki’s blog last week, Palomaki (who I will now call Sherlock Holmes) and collaborator Matt Bertram (Dr. Watson) convincingly argue that LG’s “Nano Cell” LCD-TV technology is …

Samsung Pre-Announces 2018 QLED-TV Line-up at SID-LA

by Ken Werner

At the SID Los Angeles Chapter’s annual One Day Conference on Emerging Display Technology, held on February 9, 2018 at the Costa Mesa Country Club in Costa Mesa, California, Jim Langehennig (Senior Manager for …

Tags:LCD Backlights| Quantum Dots| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 25 - Issue 08

LG and Samsung Assemble Their TV Allies

by Ken Werner

Henry Ford famously said of the Model T, “You can have any color you want as long as it’s black.” Two years ago, you could have any brand of OLED TV you wanted as …

Samsung Acquires Harman and Finds Synergy

by Ken Werner

Whenever one company merges with or devours another, it predicts that a cornucopia of synergistic value will result. More often than not, it doesn’t, but since Samsung completed its acquisition of Harman in March …

Tags:Automotive| Quantum Dots| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Continental: The Future of Mobility is Electric

by Ken Werner

Continental is a huge global Tier 1 supplier to automotive industry that is develops and delivers subsystems for nearly every imaginable automotive function. (A different division is the well-know tire maker.) Among the concepts …

Tags:audio| Automotive| CES 2018| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Harman and Samsung Find Synergy — Really!

by Ken Werner

Tags:Automotive| CES 2018| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 25 - Issue 02

Clearink: “We Look Forward to Astonishing You”

by Ken Werner

In an interview room at CES, we spoke with a very happy Frank Christiaens, CEO of Clearink, the Canadian company that has developed a video-rate electrophoretic display technology using an innovative, fast switching mechanism …

Tags:CES 2018| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 02

Has Visteon Found a Sweet Spot?

by Ken Werner

Tier 1 automotive supplier Visteon thinks it has found a display sweet spot. While other automotive suppliers are developing clusters and cockpits with OLEDs and QLEDs, Visteon feels that exploiting the current oversupply of …