The SID will celebrate 50 years of LCD research later this year with a special conference, taking place at Prince Philip House at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London, on Thursday 7th June, 2018, from 10 am to 4 pm. Confirmed speakers include:
- Cyril Hilsum, CBE, FRS, FREng. Chief Scientist at RSRE who set up collaboration between RSRE, Hull and BDH that led to the world’s first room temperature liquid crystal, and was instrumental in using amorphous silicon for TFT in LCD.
- Martin Schadt, Inventor of the Twisted Nematic Display that created the industry, as well as making fundamental contributions to photo alignment.
- Peter Raynes, FRS. Made many of the key early inventions in LCD at RSRE, including the rules for producing wide temperature LCs, defect free alignment of the TN and the Supertwist Nematic LCD.
- Phil Bos, Inventor of the pi-cell LCD and major contributions to non-display applications of LC, notably in the field of liquid crystal lenses and adaptive optics; long standing member of the Glenn Brown Institute at Kent, Ohio.
- Henning Sirringhaus, FRS. Pioneer of Organic TFT for display applications, and founder of Plastic Logic and Eight19.
Interested parties can register here. Tickets cost £60 for SID members, £80 for non-members and £50 for students.
