LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)

IBC 2022 Round-Up – Codecs and Broadcast

by Bob Raikes

As well as our dash around the monitor and virtual production topics at IBC, we stopped in with a small number of other exhibitors that have in the past shown interesting technology developments. The …

Tags:Codecs| DVB| EBU| IBC 2022| LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)| Light Field Displays| NHK| UltraHD (4KTV)| UltraHD Alliance

Links Week Ending 9th September 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the end of this week. There are a lot as I was so …

Links Week Ending 26th August 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the end of this week. Best Outdoor Projector for 2022 Can you make …

CLAP Successfully Develops Retardation Film for OLED Displays Based on its Own Liquid Crystal Material Technology

by Artem Alekseenko

CLAP, a Korean company specializing in organic semiconductors, display materials and parts, announced that it had succeeded in localizing Retardation Film for OLED displays. OLED is a vivid color self-emissive display, and its application …

Tags:LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)| OLED Monitors

BOE & Merck Clarify an LGD Mystery

by Bob Raikes

Most of the time on Display Daily in the last year or two, we have tended to talk about mostly about OLED, microLED and QD OLED, the new technologies that are changing the premium …

Meta Teases Progress on Clearer VR Vision

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In the recent SID Display Week Keynote, Meta gave some information on the use of stacked LC lenses to allow variable focus in XR headsets. RoadtoVR summarised a paper given at …

Tags:LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)| Optics| Virtual Reality

Acer Introduces Gaming Notebook with Switchable AS3D

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A hat-tip to graphics guru Dr Jon Peddie for pointing me to a new Acer notebook, the Predator Helios 300, that features a 15.6″ autostereo switchable LC lenticular lens on top …

Tags:Acer| Autostereo 3D| LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)| Notebooks

Innolux to showcase innovative display solutions at Touch Taiwan 2022

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Innolux put out a press release that explained what the firm was planning to show at Touch Taiwan, but Digitimes added an item or two to that. Innolux said it would …

Nitto Denko Challenges Flexibility With LCD

by Bob Raikes

At the recent Display Week, there were many papers presented on rollable and flexible displays and Samsung set out the importance and significance of stretchable displays. Most of the talks focused on OLEDs, but …

Novel LC Metalens Offers Electric Zoom

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Researchers from Cornell’s School of Applied and Engineering Physics and Samsung’s SAIT have made a new metalens that can be focused using voltage instead of mechanically moving its components. Metalenses are …

Tags:LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)| Optics

Interview: Compound Photonics Partners with GLOBALFOUNDRIES to Manufacture Microdisplay Chip

by Artem Alekseenko

Compound Photonics (CP) and GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) have announced a strategic partnership to manufacture IntelliPix, CP’s microdisplay technology platform. IntelliPix was announced last year as an integrated CMOS backplane and display driver IC for monolithic …

Tags:LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)| LCOS| Microdisplays| MicroLED

The Means to Extend the Life of LCDs is Under Development

by Arthur Berman

Failures in the operation of liquid crystal displays are often associated with a change in the ionic conductivity of the liquid crystal material. More specifically, an increase in conductivity can degrade the quality of …

Tags:LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)| Manufacturing