SID Display Week 2017 – Display Daily

Foldable Displays: A Panacea for Next Gen Smartphone Markets?

by Sweta Dash

The display and smartphone industries are buzzing with expectations about foldable smartphone displays that can spur replacement demand and bring stronger growth to a mature market. Smartphone demand growth-rates have been slowing down in …

Tags:Flexible Displays| SID Display Week 2017| Stretchable Materials| Vol 24 - Issue 26

SID 2017 Report: Is StoreDot Shifting Focus Away from OLEDs?

by Ken Werner

We first became interested in StoreDot a couple of years ago at CES when they showed organic molecules that have properties similar to those of quantum dots. (StoreDot: An Organic Quantum Dot Alternative) This …

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SID 2017 Report: Merck Discusses Flexible LCDs

by Ken Werner

Apologies, because of some production issues, these items were omitted from our main SID 2017 report. Among the many things Merck representatives were happy to discuss at their Display Week booth was the continuing …

SID 2017 Report: 3M Adds More Display Films to its Arsenal

by Ken Werner

Apologies, because of some production issues, these items were omitted from our main SID 2017 report. Among the many optical films 3M showed in its booth at SID Display Week, was an optimized phone …

The Hardest Sell at SID Could Find Life at Infocomm

by Steve Sechrist

In what was undoubtedly the “hardest sell” at the recent SID Display Week, we found a resurrected Interferometric (Mirasol-like) single pixel prototype featuring a high bright color saturated, tunable pixel lit entirely by reflected …

Tags:display technology| MEMs Displays| Reflective Display| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 23

SID’s Done – time for Infocomm

by Bob Raikes

Phew, that was a busy week. We finished the mammoth SID report, which was a relief and thanks to all of the team that contributed. (We had a problem with some of the mailouts …

SID 2017 Remains a Highlight

by Bob Raikes

SID Display Week is a highlight of the year for me. Apart from the great technology and peek into the future, the event has one of the friendliest press rooms and it’s a great …

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

In an Overstuffed Innovation Zone, the Gems Still Gleamed

by Bob Raikes

The Innovation Zone (I-Zone) at SID Display Week 2017 in Los Angeles had approximately 50 exhibitors, more than double the average of years past. Was 2017 an unusually innovative year? Perhaps, but not on …

ELO Updates its Touch Controller

by Bob Raikes

ELO started our booth tour by showing us its latest solutions (pun intended) for PCap touch on displays that are not only wet, but are also exposed to salt water. As well as obvious …

Tags:ELO| Large Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Touch Controllers| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Samsung Stretchable Display at SID 2017 Display Week

by Steve Sechrist

On the SID Display Week 2017 expo show floor (and in a closed viewing space, Samsung debuted a new two-way stretchable AMOLED display. This took the form of a dynamic stretchable 9.1-inch AMOLED that …

Tianma Has Broad Range of Special Displays

by Bob Raikes

We seem to have met with Tianma at more shows than any of the other panel suppliers – we met at Electronica, CES, MWC and Embedded World – all in the last seven or …

E Ink Flexible Display and More at SID 17

by Steve Sechrist

New at the E Ink booth on the SID expo show floor was the company’s flexible paper and demo of a foldable display based on its new technology. Based on its Mobius Flex technology, …