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SID’s 2019 Display Industry Awards

Display Week is in full swing as this is posted and, unfortunately, I am not there to write a Display Daily straight from the trade show floor or the technical symposium. So, instead, I’ll report on the new products that the SID has seen fit to choose for its 2019 Display Industry Awards. These awards … Read more

OLED Materials Innovator CYNORA Secures US$25M in First Closing of Series C Round. CYNORA Names Adam Kablanian as New Chief Executive Officer

Marking the initial closing of its Series C funding round, CYNORA announced that it has secured US$25M in financing from investors in Asia, Europe and the US. Germany-based CYNORA is an emerging materials leader with a novel technology to produce ultra-high-efficiency emitter systems required for next-generation Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) displays. The company has … Read more

BenQ Materials to Reveal the Diversified Foldable AMOLED Applications at Display Week 2019

It recently opens a completely new mobile page ? a smart phone using multiple new technologies and materials to create a display that is flexible enough to fold. Among others, BenQ Materials with its leading position in the area of optical materials, a full line of functional film solutions for different applications, color shift solutions … Read more

DigiLens Unveils Affordable and Sturdy Plastic AR Lenses at Display Week

One of the more important developments that will be revealed at the 2019 SID Display Week event will come from DigiLens, a California-based company focused on waveguide technology for AR/VR and Head-up Display (HUD) applications. And what did they reveal: the worlds first plastic waveguide offering a full color image in an AR eyeglasses-type demonstrator. … Read more

Universal Display Corporation to Showcase Organic Vapor Jet Printing and Phosphorescent OLED Innovations at SID Display Week 2019

Universal Display Corporation (Nasdaq: OLED), enabling energy-efficient displays and lighting with its UniversalPHOLED® technology and materials, announced that the Company will exhibit and present at the Society for Information Display (SID) Display Week 2019 International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition being held May 12-16 in San Jose, California. At Booth #940 in the San Jose convention … Read more

Google Pixel 3a ‘Good Enough’ Smartphone Strategy

In case you lost your ticket to the latest Google fest last week (Google I/O 2019), the company launched a pair of new ‘good enough’ ($400 and $480) smartphone devices, among other important announcements and upgrades in the Google-verse. The Pixel 3a and 3a XL are meant to break open the lagging smart device market … Read more

New IDC Spending Guide Forecasts Consumer Spending on Technology to Reach $1.3 Trillion in 2019, Led by Communication and Entertainment Use Cases

Consumer spending on technology is forecast to reach $1.32 trillion in 2019, an increase of 3.5% over 2018. According to the inaugural Worldwide Semiannual Connected Consumer Spending Guide from International Data Corporation (IDC), consumer purchases of traditional and emerging technologies will remain strong over the 2018-2022 forecast period, reaching $1.43 trillion in 2022 with a … Read more

Polymer for use with Quantum Dots is Under Development

A team of researchers at the Optical Sciences Division within the Materials Science and Technology Division at the Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, DC) and headed by Michael H. Stewart are developing a transparent, luminescent material The material is a thiol-yne nanocomposite polymer designed to hold light emitting Quantum Dots (QDs). Potential applications for the technology … Read more

OLED is Everybody’s Favorite Display, but…

It is still true that, for the most part, experienced display evaluators prefer OLED-TVs to quantum-dot-enhanced or RG-phosphor-enhanced LCD-TVs. The evaluators tend to value the color saturation, very dark black levels, good motion rendering, and essentially non-existent halo effect. But, as my colleague, Bob Raikes, noted in yesterday’s Display Daily (A Couple of Things I’ll … Read more

NEC Takes the Lead in the “Resolution Revolution” with Ultra-High Definition on 55” Displays

NEC Display Solutions Europe announces a new product that places the company in the vanguard of a “resolution revolution” that will see ultra-high definition (UHD) available on smaller, more affordable displays. NEC today launches the latest addition to its portfolio of ultra-high definition (UHD) displays with the launch of its new MultiSync® V554Q model for … Read more