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Last October I had a chance to visit with Incom, and write about this manufacturer of fused fiber optic faceplates. The faceplates are composed of thousands of tiny fiber optics densely packed together – dozens per pixel – to transport the display image from the bottom of the faceplate to the top of it. That … Read more
In paper 25.2 (High-Brightness Solid-State Source for 4K Ultra-Short Throw Projector), Sony described improvements they have made to the laser phosphor material that will improve projector brightness and lifetime. This is destined for their 4K short-throw projector that is used in homes and professional applications, but it will not be implemented in products until the … Read more
For high lumen projectors using laser phosphor, the phosphor material will typically run too hot and burn if exposed to too much blue light. To address this issue, Wavien has proposed a mixture that can be placed in a liquid medium and circulated past a cell for illumination and conversion in a projector. Ken Li’s … Read more
Future Cities Catapult is a British-based company focusing on analyzing issues in today’s urban environments and the development of innovations defining the urban society of tomorrow. The company helps innovators and futurists to develop concepts and technologies that aid in this goal. It focuses on three core themes: promoting healthy cities, building resilience in urban … Read more
The Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference organized by IHS at SID’s 2015 Display Week included a presentation by IHS analysts that touched on What are Wearables for Anyway and a Wearable-Flexible Display Market Update. Coming before the market update provided by Paul Gray, Jack Kent, Senior Manager, Analysis and Research, IHS, tackled a question that really … Read more
Juergen Eichner is from Via Optronics which started as a display enhancement company that quickly started to focus on optical bonding materials, technologies and processes. As a result it has become a supplier of bonding processes and materials to other companies. The headquarters are in Nuremberg in Germany, but there are offices in the US … Read more
New at this years SID Display Week was the special coverage of vehicle displays. Long a niche market for LCD fabs, the space is still dominated by the top automotive component integrators like Continental, Rockwell Collins, and Harman International, who can ruggedize the displays and support them for long product life cycles needed to meet … Read more
Jeff Hawthorne is CEO of UniPixel which makes engineered films and hard coat resins for displays. The firm has just acquired the X-Sense flexible touch film product line from Atmel. The firm’s touch sensor is a GF2 type of configuration and is compatible with a “wide” range of controllers. There is a 5% CAGR for … Read more
Dr Dan Button is from Innova Dynamics and the company effectively used SID to make announcements and come more into public view. It has announced new products with Dai Nippon Printing. Innova is an electronics material company that has a “platform” that allows it to engineer materials to transform their properties. The company chose touch … Read more
Margaret Kohin, SVP, Business Development, eMagin Corporation was invited to present a Special Wearables Address at the Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference organized by IHS at SID’s 2015 Display Week. Kohin’s address was unique at the SID Wearables Conference in that it was the only presentation to address head mounted displays (HMDs) and applications to products … Read more
John Brodd is CEO of Cima Nanotech which is making materials for ITO replacement. There are around 70 staff in the company, mostly in China. Procap touch technology is great, but runs out of performance at around 32″ diagonal when ITO is used to make the patterns. Cima developed Santé material which is around 15 … Read more
The next speaker was Fariba Danesh from glo, which is a VC-backed company developing LED products using nanotechnology. Although founded in Lund, Sweden, the company moved to Silicon Valley to further develop. Danesh said that if you can get really good RGB colours, this helps with very many issues that face display makers. Glo uses … Read more
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