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Aledia Uses Nanowires for MicroLEDs

by Bob Raikes

This week I was in Grenoble in the Alps and took the chance to visit Leti, the major French R&D. At the exhibition, I also caught up with a LETI spin-off, Aledia, which has …

Tags:France| MicroLED| R&D (Research & Development)| Vol 24 - Issue 25

Merck to Work with Leeds University on LC Applications

by Bob Raikes

Merck said that it is working with the University of Leeds to develop a range of digital optical applications with liquid crystals under its “Emerging Innovation – LC 2021” strategic initiative. Mark Verrall, Head …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)| Merck| Mobile Display Monitor| R&D (Research & Development)| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Tabletop 360º Display Can be Viewed Glasses-free

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers headed by Yongjun Lim at the 5G Giga Communication Research Laboratory within the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea) is developing a novel tabletop holographic display. The system …

Tags:Holographic Displays| R&D (Research & Development)| Vol 24 - Issue 19| Volumetric Displays

A New Full Color Reflective Display Based on Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers headed by Dan Luo within the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology (Shenzhen, China) has developed improved Cholesteric Liquid Crystal (CLC) materials …

Tags:China| Cholesteric| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| R&D (Research & Development)| Reflective Display| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Intel and Carnegie Mellon Set Up Mobile Video Research Programme

by Alan Spencer

According to a white paper, “Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update”, by 2021, the average person will have multiple connected mobile devices, and 75% of mobile data traffic will be …

Tags:AR/VR| Intel| Mobile Display Monitor| R&D (Research & Development)| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 16

EU Launches $4.3 million HyperOLED Project

by Alan Spencer

The EU has launched a three-year $4.3 million project to develop efficient hyper-fluorescence TADF OLED emitters. The new project called HyperOLED aims to develop materials and matching device architectures for high-performance, hyper-fluorescence TADF OLED …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Merck| Mobile Display Monitor| R&D (Research & Development)| TADF| Vol 24 - Issue 16

LED Device Under Development that both Emits and Detects Light

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers lead by Moonsub Shim, a professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, IL), is developing a novel type of LED. The so-called nanorod LED is …

Tags:LED| Novel Displays| Quantum Dots| R&D (Research & Development)| Vol 24 - Issue 11

A New Color Filter Technology

by Arthur Berman

A new color filter technology is under development that claims to have the potential to advance the commercialization of the next generation of ultra-high definition TVs. At the same time, the technology also has …

Tags:Colour Filters| Korea| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Plasmonic Displays| R&D (Research & Development)| Vol 24 - Issue 05

Large Cost-Effective OLED Microdisplays Project launched by EU

by Bob Raikes

An EU project has been launched called LOMID (Large Cost-Effective OLED Microdisplays) with the aim of developing a next-generation 1920 x 1200 resolution flexible OLED microdisplay for VR and AR applications. The project will …

Tags:AMOLED| Europe| Mobile Display Monitor| R&D (Research & Development)| Vol 24 - Issue 04

KAIST Enhances the Image Quality of a Dynamic Holographic Display

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers led by Park Yong-keun, a professor in the Physics Department at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (Daejeon, Republic of Korea), has announced the achievement of a …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| R&D (Research & Development)| Vol 24 - Issue 04

TanvasTouch Adds Haptic Capability to Touchscreen Displays

by Arthur Berman

Tanvas (Chicago, IL), a startup out of the Neuroscience and Robotics Laboratory at Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering (Evanston, IL), is developing a novel means to add haptic capability to touchscreen displays. The technology …

Tags:Haptics| R&D (Research & Development)| Touch| Vol 24 - Issue 03

OLED Research Centre Planned For Switzerland

by Yvette Raikes

Idemitsu Kosan plans to set up a wholly owned subsidary, Idemitsu OLED Materials Europe AG in Basel, Switzerland, which will develop organic EL materials. It will cost CHF2 million ($2 million) and the company …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| R&D (Research & Development)| Vol 24 - Issue 02