Flexible Displays – Page 57

SDC to Triple Flexible OLED Production in 2015

by Tom Allen

The OLED Association says that Samsung has been investing in existing fabs, aiming to triple flexible OLED production by the end of the year. A new tool from Tera Semicon will be installed. Capacity …

Transparent Flexible Conductors Proliferate at Display Week

by Ken Werner

You could make a case for Transparent Flexible Conductors (TFCs) based on thinness, lightweight and ruggedness even when they are being applied to displays with rigid substrates. Now that flexible displays are entering the …

Challenges Remain, but Some Display Jobs are Now Done

by Bob Raikes

This week, we have been very busy following up the SID show and we are just finalising the report as I write this article. Now I’m away from it, it’s getting clearer what the …

AUO Wins Award and Impresses

by Bob Raikes

AUO started by showing us its 1.3″ (320 x 320 – 257ppi 350 cd/m²) plastic AMOLED and its 1.4″ “Full Circle” (400 x 400 – 287ppi 350 cd/m²) OLED which won the SID Best …

LG Display Shows 18″ Flex Display

by Bob Raikes

We had a tour of the LG Display booth that started with a look at the latest 55″, 65″ and 77″ UltraHD OLED TV panels. There is no question that the visual performance of …

BOE Has Impressively Wide Range

by Bob Raikes

BOE came to the SID last year for the first time. This time, the company was back with an impressive display from the low end to the high end. As the company explained in …

Wearable-Flexible Display Market Update (WF10)

by Phillip Wright

Following the session and panel discussion with five speakers moderated by Jack Kent of IHS titled What are Wearables for Anyway, the Display Week 2015 Market Focus Conference – Wearables-Flexible proceeded to an overview …

UniPixel Updates on X-Sense Acquisition (IC14)

by Bob Raikes

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 …

CBrite Looks for LTPS/IGZO Alternative (IC8)

by Bob Raikes

Boo Nilsson is from CBrite which develops new backplane technologies. The company is based in Santa Barbara and has offices in Taiwan and China. The company has technology that is competitive with IGZO and …

Special Wearables Address on Android Wear and Google’s Wish List (WF1)

by Phillip Wright

The opening presentation at the Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference organized by IHS at the 2015 SID Display Week was delivered by Sidney Chang, Head of Business Development for Android Wear at Google. Chang opened …

LG Display Warns of “Depressing Overcapacity” (KN3)

by Bob Raikes

The final keynote speaker was Dr In Byeong Kang, Senior VP and CTO of LG Display, and his topic was ‘the challenges and opportunities of the display market’. First, he looked back into the …

GM Likes HUDs and Free Form Displays But Not OLEDs (18)

by Bob Raikes

The first speaker in the final section was Thomas Seder, Chief Technologist for the HMITBD group at General Monitors. He said that GM’s main strategy is to try to increase the performance of products …