SID Display Week 2015 – Display Daily

US Laser Phosphor Projectors Sales in Jeopardy Because of FDA Ruling

by Chris Chinnock

In February 2015, the FDA issued a ruling that is having a chilling effect on sales of laser phosphor projectors in the US. This ruling classified projectors containing lasers (RGB laser, laser phosphor and …

Quantum Dots: The Plot Thickens

by Ken Werner

A lot of the conversation about quantum dots at Display Week revolved around the European Commission’s rejection of their own technical committee’s recommendation that cadmium-based quantum dots continue to be exempt from prohibition as …

Transparent Flexible Conductors Proliferate at Display Week

by Ken Werner

You could make a case for Transparent Flexible Conductors (TFCs) based on thinness, lightweight and ruggedness even when they are being applied to displays with rigid substrates. Now that flexible displays are entering the …

Touch and Haptics Innovations in 2015 SID iZone

by Phillip Wright

Two developers caught my attention during my visit to the 2015 SID Display Week Innovation Zone (iZone). Redux Technologies and TouchNetix were exhibiting new embedded haptics and touch sensor products, respectively. The Redux Embedded …

Wearable Software Ecosystem: Diversity or Monoculture

by Phillip Wright

The 2015 SID Display Week Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference hosted a session and panel discussion on Software for Wearables with speakers from Mozilla, Intel, and Runtastic. At this point in the penultimate session of …

Challenges Remain, but Some Display Jobs are Now Done

by Bob Raikes

This week, we have been very busy following up the SID show and we are just finalising the report as I write this article. Now I’m away from it, it’s getting clearer what the …

Display Glass at SID Display Week 2015 – Du Pont/Kateeva to Print OLEDs?

by Ken Werner

Without new materials and new manufacturing processes, display evolution is just – for the most part – evolutionary. On the show floor at Display Week, we saw three major categories of new and evolving …

Sharp Highlights Free Form Concepts

by Bob Raikes

We were impressed with the Sharp Free Form displays that we saw at CES, but we were unable to get much more information, so we were pleased to catch up with the company at …

JDI Amazes with Range of Solutions

by Bob Raikes

I’d be tempted to say that the sheer number of things that JDI showed us was the highlight of the booth, but several of the demos were also very impressive. We started by looking …

AUO Wins Award and Impresses

by Bob Raikes

AUO started by showing us its 1.3″ (320 x 320 – 257ppi 350 cd/m²) plastic AMOLED and its 1.4″ “Full Circle” (400 x 400 – 287ppi 350 cd/m²) OLED which won the SID Best …

Fraunhofer Shows Bidirectional SVGA Microdisplay at SID

by Steve Sechrist

The Germany-based Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics group was at SID Display Week 2015 with a new SVGA Bi-directional Microdisplay OLED chip that can both reproduce and record images. The OLED on silicon display …

CSOT Concentrates on LCD & OLED TV

by Bob Raikes

An executive from TCL, the parent of CSOT from China was one of the keynote speakers (TCL Growing with CSOT Supply). CSOT had a booth at the show and the first product we looked …