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iBeam Gets Help to Be Disruptive from a Tech Giant

by Bob Raikes

It’s sometimes hard as an independent analyst to work out whether a claimed technical breakthrough is really what it seems. I don’t have a team of engineers and scientists on the payroll to evaluate …

Tags:Investment| LED| Manufacturing| MicroLED| R&D (Research & Development)| Roll to Roll (R2R)| Samsung| SID Display Week 2020| TFT

Bodle Moves Onto the Next Stage

by Bob Raikes

Just before Display Week, I managed to catch up with Peiman Hosseini, a founder of Bodle Technologies, a technology start-up that is developing bistable displays. The company is developing a display application that exploits …

Tags:Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs)| ITRI| R&D (Research & Development)| Reflective Display

What to Expect from DisplayWeek 2020

by Sri Peruvemba

DisplayWeek 2020, the premier event for the display industry hosted by the Society for Information Display (SID), will be held on August 3-7 this year. The entire experience will be online. So what can …

Tags:R&D (Research & Development)| SID Display Week 2020

Developments in Metasurface Technology May Enable Ultra-Thin Lenses

by Arthur Berman

Conventional optical components typically derive light manipulating capabilities from their shape and/or material composition. On the other hand, there are optical components that can manipulate light based on an entirely different approach. This approach …

Tags:Lenses| Metasurfaces| Optics| R&D (Research & Development)

Plasmonics Shows New Potential to Improve Color in Reflective Displays

by Arthur Berman

Plasmonic technology has the potential to be integrated into reflective displays as the means to produce pixels that are extremely compact and that present a wide range of colors. The colors produced using plasmonic …

Tags:Plasmonic Displays| R&D (Research & Development)| Reflective Display

Dicing with MiniLEDs

by Bob Raikes

One of the fun things about taking an interest in displays is that there are such a wide variety of technologies and topics that are relevant, from materials science, semiconductors, optics, electronics, mechanics, environment, …

Tags:LED| MiniLED| R&D (Research & Development)

Impact of Apple and Samsung on the Display Industry

by Ian Hendy

For observers of the display industry over a long horizon, it is pretty clear that Apple and Samsung have had a major impact on innovation and the introduction of new technologies. From the first …

Tags:Apple| LTPS TFT| R&D (Research & Development)| Samsung

Researchers Improve Both Conductivity and Transparency in SnO2 Films

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers headed by Shoichiro Nakao of the Department of Chemistry within the School of Science at the University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) have demonstrated the highest mobility in a thin film …

Tags:Materials| R&D (Research & Development)| Semiconductors

A Biaxially Stretchable Substrate Applicable to OLEDs is Under Development

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers led by Professor Kyung-Chul Choi within the Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (Daejeon, Korea) is developing “stretchable OLEDs that …

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

Consortium Developing Roll-to-Roll Thin Glass Based Optoelectronics

by Arthur Berman

A consortium German companies has established the KODOS project. The acronym stands for “Konfektionierter Dünnglas-Verbund für optoelektronische Systeme” or “Thin Glass Composites for Optoelectronic Systems.” The aim of the consortium is to be able …

Tags:Europe| Flexible Displays| Glass| R&D (Research & Development)

Bright. Long Lasting. Cd-Free. What Else Could You Want from EL-QLED?

by Peter Palomaki

If you follow my articles, or advanced display technology in general, you know that electroluminescent QLED (EL-QLED) is poised to become a game changing direct view display technology for a multitude of reasons – …

Tags:Quantum Dots| R&D (Research & Development)| Samsung

New 3D Printing Method Can Fabricate Freeform, Transparent OLEDs

by Arthur Berman

A research team within the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Nano Science Technology Institute at Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea) is developing a 3D printing technique that enables OLEDs to be printed …

Tags:3D Printers| InkJet Deposition| Korea| OLEDs| R&D (Research & Development)