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SID Buzzes and is Up – Again!

by Bob Raikes

The SID was a good event, again, this year, with a boost of 7% on attendance – a function of the location, we suspect, and the increased marketing activity. We heard numbers were up …

Tags:Automotive| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| Quantum Dots| Vol 23 - Issue 21

Quantum Dots Get Hot

by Ken Werner

At Display Week quantum-dot makers had more significant announcements and introductions than many of us expected. Its not that QDs had become boring before Display Week. After all, television market penetration was 25% heading …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nanosys| QD Vision| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

PQC LED hybridised with QD colour converters

Hybrid QD-LED Raises Efficiency

by Milos Pavlovic

(a) Schematic representation, (b) cross-sectional, and (c) top SEM images of a photonic quasi-crystal LED hybridised with QD colour convertersA An international research group has used quantum dots to create a hybrid LED. QDs …

Tags:Colour Filters| Large Display Monitor| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| Vol 23 - Issue 21

BC22 GM Says that HUDs and Displays Have Challenges

by Bob Raikes

Thomas Seder of GM (joined by James Carpenter also of GM for questions) talked about design in cars. He said that a group called EyesOn Design selected a GM Buick Avista for a design …

Tags:Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Large Display Monitor| Mirror Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

BC19 Nanosys Changes QD LCD Architecture

by Bob Raikes

Jason Hartlove, CEO on Nanosys started by saying that all major TV companies are using his technology (except LG – but he’s working on this). Consumers do care about resolution, but at some point …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD Backlights| Mobile Display Monitor| Nanosys| Quantum Dots| ROHS| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

BC14 QDVision Summarises Quantum Dots

by Bob Raikes

Seth Coe-Sullivan is from QDVision and he started by introducing the company. On the firm’s booth at SID, the firm’s marketing was focused on the shipping of commercial products with its technology. Coe-Sullivan also …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

Drinking the QD “Kool-Aid”

by Barry Young

When I wandered into the Exhibit Hall at the Moscone Convention Center West, the first visible display was LG’s 77” HDR UHD AMOLED TV, which was attracting the most interest and largest crowds on …

Tags:OLEDA (OLED Association)| OLEDs| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

Four Breakthroughs at SID 2016

by Bob Raikes

I love the SID DisplayWeek event. I have attended the event every year since 1995, so this was my 22nd visit. As I mentioned in an article last year, looking back at my early …

Tags:Editorial| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| Quantum Dots| Vol 23 - Issue 20

Quantum Dots OverHyped? Check at DisplayWeek

by Bob Raikes

We will shortly have a great Display Daily article from Barry Young of the OLED Association on what he sees as the hype for quantum dots at SID. However, if you are still at …

Tags:OLEDs| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2016

SID’s Display Week Opens with Lots of Quantum Dot News

by Chris Chinnock

I have not had a chance to spend much time on the show floor or paper sessions, so I don’t have the full perspective of SID’s DisplayWeek yet. It is my turn to write …

Tags:Quantum Dots| Rec 2020| ROHS| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 20

Samsung Looks Past OLED to QLED

by Tom Allen

Samsung stopped producing OLED TVs in 2013Korea’s ET News claims that Samsung will skip OLED TVs entirely, to focus on QLED (self-emitting quantum dot) technology. An unnamed Samsung official is quoted as saying, “There …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OLED TVs| QLED| Quantum Dots| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 20