When Samsung & Sony Fight…
by Bob Raikes
As so often in the display business, Samsung has been the topic of much discussion this week. The company is clearly being attacked in the TV market by Sony, which is looking to recover …
Moiré
by Dummy Admin
The word “moiré” comes from the French word for mohair and is defined as “having a watered or wavelike pattern” (Collins English Dictionary). Moiré patterns can occur whenever similar, regular patterns are superimposed on …
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MIP Map
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“MIP map” is the name given to a collection of images to be used as surface textures when building, or rendering, a 2D representation of a 3D scene. The acronym “MIP” comes from the …
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Liquid Crystal (LC)
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Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are now so common that we take it for granted that people know what we are talking about when we use the phrase. But how many of us know what …
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Light Valve Amplifier/ILA
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Light Valve Amplifier (LVA) is a term used to describe a specific type of light valve developed by Hughes-JVC (Image Light Amplifier (ILA)). An LVA is a device which uses the limited brightness of …
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Light Valve
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A light valve (LV) is a form of optical switch which can be used to vary the amount of light which reaches a target (e.g. a screen) by deflecting the light from its path …
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LEP
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The Universal Display Corporation’s TOLED is based on small-molecule organic light emitting materials. Another of the high-profile OLED development companies, Cambridge Display Technology (CDT), is putting its faith in large-molecule, or polymer, organic light …
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Recruitment Agency Policy
by Dummy Admin
Because of the specialist nature of Meko’s business and of the roles within it, agencies often have difficulty in defining the positions and have rarely been able to find suitable candidates. For this reason, …
OLED – Samsung’s Trinitron or the Slayer of the LCD Monster?
by Bob Raikes
Back in March, in an editorial, I said: “Thinking about this development (OLEDs) made me wonder why Samsung would try to do something so hard. Doh! The reason for pursuing OLED is precisely because …
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LED
by Dummy Admin
One group of electro-luminescent (EL) devices is known as high-field ELs. The other main group is known as the Light Emitting Diodes, which is itself split into two groups consisting of those devices using …
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In-Plane Switching (IPS)
by Dummy Admin
If LCDs are ever to replace the CRT-based display, one of the major problems to be overcome is that of narrow viewing angles. Several solutions have been developed but the different approaches have met …
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High-Field Electro-Luminescents
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The basic electro-luminescent (EL) display is a sandwich consisting of an upper and a lower electrode sandwiching a material which gives off light when excited by high frequency. There are several different types of …
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