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Samsung’s foldable smartphone wins 2020 Nikkei products award

What They Say Nikkei gave an award to the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip for being recognised as one of 2020’s ‘Nikkei Superior Products and Services’. A total of 36 products were presented with Awards. What We Think The article also gives background to Samsung’s development in the smartphone market. However, I can’t help thinking that … Read more

An Update on Circularly Polarized Light Emission in OLED Polymers

Polymers that emit circularly polarized light have the potential to enable more efficient OLED displays. However, at this time, the origin of circular polarized light emission in such materials is not well understood. Now, research by a team headed by Jessica Wade of the Department of Physics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus (London, UK) … Read more

PMA Research Channel Tracking Reports Reveal Best-Selling Projectors in November

PMA Research, the worldwide market information experts on front projectors, has posted highlights from their most recent Projector Tracking Service results to the “Top-Selling Projectors” area of their website. For more than 25 years now, PMA Research has collected monthly sell-through data from leading U.S. projector dealers, retailers, web resellers, and distributors. Their Tracking Service … Read more

Thanks & Happy New Year to our Subscribers

I’d just like to take this opportunity to thank all our subscribers for their support in the change to our business model. These are challenging times and we really appreciate your support. I always welcome feedback at [email protected]. I’d also like to wish you all good health and prosperity for the year ahead. (other things, … Read more

LG Display to Showcase Lifestyle of Future with Transparent OLED at CES 2021

LG Display, the world’s leading innovator of display technologies, announced brand-new Transparent OLED applications to be showcased at the upcoming all-digital CES 2021. The company has applied its cutting-edge transparent OLED displays to objects and situations that people encounter on a daily basis, thereby presenting an upgraded lifestyle of the future. Among LG Display’s most … Read more

LG Display to showcase lifestyle of future with Transparent OLED at CES 2021

What They Say LG Display has announced that it will show its transparent OLEDs in its CES 2021 online showcase. Applications will include the home, in a restaurant (image below) and in a subway system as a virtual window.The company said that it has now achieved 40% transparency. What We Think I still haven’t seen … Read more

Cleaning Things Up: Standards Redux

In this final instalment in our series about technical hygiene in the Covidian Era, we provide some blunt musings about Covid-aware hygiene standards, especially national and industry-specific standards. Come along with us for an untamed ride of nuance and perspective through the wilderness of covidian concern. Musing #1: Contextual versus national standards. An educator recently … Read more

QNED (or not QNED) Again

What They Say We reported yesterday that LG Electronics had announced its QNED technology. It seems that the firm didn’t mean the Quantum nanorods that we reported on previously. Are Quantum Nano Emitting Diodes (QNEDs) the Next Big Thing?. Instead, the company has decided to use the acronym QNED to mean a combinaton of Quantum … Read more

More Developments in Korean Perovskites

What They Say A research group from Kaist and the Seoul National University has developed a new Perovskite materials according to a paper in Advanced Materials. The approach creates a new materials design strategy that can extend the stability of perovskite nanoparticles in air and with water. The nanoparticles maintain high photoluminescence quantum yield for … Read more