SID Display Week 2018

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ePaper Roundup: E Ink and ClearInk

by Ken Werner

Last year at Display Week, there were several start-ups showing reflective displays of one sort or another. This year, the interlopers were gone, and we were free to concentrate on was now-maturing E Ink …

Tags:E Ink| EPD (Electrophoretic)| eReaders| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 21

MicroLEDs Raise their Epitaxial Heads at Display Week

by Ken Werner

microLED displays — displays consisting of micron-scale inorganic LED chips that are not individually packaged — have been much discussed but little seen. At Display Week, though, several microLED technology demonstrations could be seen …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Projectors| SID Display Week 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 21

Display Glass and Plastic Roundup

by Ken Werner

As soon as you walked into the exhibition area at Display Week 2018 you were confronted with an impressive flexible display substrate, the one used in LG Display‘s flexible 77 display (Fig. 1). In …

Tags:Barrier Layers (Films)| Film materials| Google Glass| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 21

Quantum Dot Symposium Roundup

by Peter Palomaki

Quantum Dots (QDs) were again a hot topic at Display Week. I attended over two dozen talks with a focus on QDs, and many more where QDs were a secondary topic in the conversation …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 21

QD Supplier Roundup

by Peter Palomaki

Nanosys Nanosys has been a leader in the QD space for years, and they had a clear presence on the trade show floor strategically placed alongside Samsung’s booth. They had their usual demos of …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| Samsung| SID Display Week 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 21

IC09 Other speakers at the Investors’ Conference.

by Bob Raikes

The first speaker in the afternoon session was the CEO of Cynora, Gildas Sorin, but he didn’t add anything to the presentation at the business conference although he did say that the firm is …

Tags:Film materials| Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2018| TADF| Vol 25 - Issue 21

IC08 Mattrix is the New NVerPix – with New Switches

by Bob Raikes

Mattrix Technologies was previously NVerPix – a company that we reported on in 2016 when it announced its technology (and won the iZone award nVerpix Shows Breakthrough OLED Pixel Design) However, the founders fell …

Tags:CNTs (Carbon Nanotubes)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2018| TFT| Vol 25 - Issue 21

IC07 PixelDisplay Continues to Progress

by Bob Raikes

David Wyatt is from PixelDisplay, a company that we have reported on from SID last year and CES this year. He is an engineer from Nvidia and invented the company’s VividColor technology. Chris did …

Tags:Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Phosphors| SID Display Week 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 21| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

IC06 FlexEnable Heading for Profitability with Displays and Sensors

by Bob Raikes

FlexEnable was represented by its CEO, Chuck Milligan. He explained how the company had developed a G3.5 fab in Dresden, Germany, because of the scale of its investment (under the name, Plastic Logic). Unfortunately, …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Organic TFTs| SID Display Week 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 21

IC05 Amorphyx Can Replace TFTs with Quantum Tunnelling

by Bob Raikes

Amorphyx is a new company that is working on new technology for backplanes and the CEO is John Brewer who started by saying that TFTs have very bad performance and the industry needs to …

Tags:Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| SID Display Week 2018| TFT| Vol 25 - Issue 21

IC04 Ares Solves a Problem for Flexible Displays

by Bob Raikes

Dr David Arreaga is founder of Ares Materials from Texas which makes films for flexible displays. The films are based on polysulphide which have not been used so far in the flat panel display …

Tags:Film materials| Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 21

IC03 OTI Reveals the ‘Dirty little Secret’ of OLEDs for IT

by Bob Raikes

OTI Lumionics was next up and the speaker was Michael Helander who is the founder and CEO. The company focuses on the electrode materials to help with manufacturing, which is an under-served market. The …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Materials| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| SID Display Week 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 21