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With Ultra-Thin Glass, Schott Leads the Way

by Ken Werner

Now that consumer electronics companies have decided the world is hungry for smartphones that fold, display makers have developed an equal appetite for ultra-thin glass (UTG). Since it is glass, UTG has admirable optical …

Tags:Corning| Flexible Displays| Glass| Materials

Singing the EL-QLED Blues

by Peter Palomaki

Perhaps you have been putting on some old blues records to get you through this turbulent time. It’s a normal thing to feel a little down about the world right now. And some days …

Tags:EL-QLEDs| Materials| OLED Materials| OLEDs| QD OLEDs| Quantum Dots

NTHU Research Team Develops New Display Material

by Artem Alekseenko

A research team led by Professor Hsueh-Shih (Sean) Chen of National Tsing Hua University has announced that they have developed a new quantum dot material which is more stable and provides more realistic color. …

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Corning Releases New Display Glass “ASTRA”

by Norbert Hildebrand

It has been a few years since Corning announced a new glass type for the display industry, This is changing this year with the announcement of Astra, a new glass type for the LCD …

Tags:Backplanes| Corning| Glass| Materials| Oxide TFTs

KAIST Developing a Replacement for Glass in Flexible Displays

by Arthur Berman

One of the key components desired in a display that is both flexible and transparent is a polymer material that is itself flexible and that presents optical and thermal properties similar to that of …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Korea| Materials| R&D (Research & Development)

New Graphene Quantum Dot Fabrication Technology Under Development

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers headed by Professor Shin Hyun-seok of the Department of Natural Science within the Department of Energy Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) (Ulsan, Republic of Korea) …

Tags:Graphene| Materials| Quantum Dots

IC03 OTI Reveals the ‘Dirty little Secret’ of OLEDs for IT

by Bob Raikes

OTI Lumionics was next up and the speaker was Michael Helander who is the founder and CEO. The company focuses on the electrode materials to help with manufacturing, which is an under-served market. The …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Materials| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| SID Display Week 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 21

BC20 Nanosys Pushing QD Costs Down

by Bob Raikes

Russel Kempt is from Nanosys and he started by saying that the company is qualifying its P6 production line that is ‘significantly’ larger than the previous P4 line which can make volume quantum dots …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Materials| Mobile Display Monitor| Nanosys| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 21

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Solar-Tectic LLC and Blue Wave Win Patent

by Damir Lokas

We reported on new materials from Solar-Tectic LLC (“ST”) last month and the company has now said that it, and Blue Wave Semiconductors, Inc., (“BWS”), has said that it has a new patent (U.S. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Materials| Mobile Display Monitor| Patents| TFT| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Praxair to Supply Nitrogen to Samsung OLED Facility

by Andrew Fenn

Long-term Samsung partner Praxair, an industrial gas supplier from the US, has signed a new agreement to construct and operate an air separation plant that will supply 700 tonnes of nitrogen per day to …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Materials| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 41

A Better On-Chip Red Phosphor from GE (and Samsung?)

by Ken Werner

In a Display Week booth, General Electric showed its RadiantRed TriGain red phosphor which is intended to be used within an LED package. The phosphor consists of Potassium Silicon Fluoride (PSF) doped with Mn4+, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Materials| Mobile Display Monitor| Phosphors| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 21

KIT Develops Printable Glass

by Norbert Hildebrand

A group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has succeeded on printing glass structure using a 3D printing process. The process was published recently and demonstrated at the Hannover Industrial Fair. The process …

Tags:Glass| Large Display Monitor| Materials| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 19