Vol 25 – Issue 21 – Display Daily

SID Display Week is One of the Best

by Bob Raikes

SID’s Display Week is always a highlight of the year and this year’s event was one of the best, I think. This year seems to have seen so many spectacular displays for so many …

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Tianma Impressive as Usual

by Bob Raikes

Tianma had its usual long list of developments in a range of different industrial and specialist applications. The first product that we looked at was a circular display designed for automotive and other instrumentation …

SID 2018 Show Floor Roundup

by Bob Raikes

3M was at the show to demonstrate how its films could be used to reduce the power taken by TVs and monitors, which are increasingly being made to support HDR and high levels of …

DNP Hardens Flexible FIlms, has Flexible Colour Filters and new Privacy Film

by Bob Raikes

DNP showed a large transparent front projection screen that is available in 40″ or 80″ and has 50% transparency and haze of about 1.0%. The company expects to see applications in retail as well …

JDI May Have Commercial Problems, but has Technical Highlights

by Bob Raikes

JDI always has an impressive range of displays both in terms of technology and also in applications. Although the company has had some serious financial issues because of its over-reliance on a small number …

Visionox Shows Outfolding OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

Chinese OLED maker, Visionox, presented one of the keynotes at Display Week (KN01 Press Breakfast and Keynote – check it for more on the displays shown) and had a substantial display in Los Angeles. …

Samsung Highlights Flexible OLEDs and Light Fields

by Bob Raikes

Once again, Samsung Display showed a couple of light field displays which we have reported on in a separate article (3D Display Round up). As in recent years, Samsung did not give interviews to …

BOE Overloads us with 8K, Flexible OLEDs and MiniLEDs

by Bob Raikes

BOE had too much to report, again! No doubt we missed some points. We found that staff were not able to give much detail beyond what was on the labels of the products, which …

AUO Has MicroLED at Display Week

by Bob Raikes

AUO was the first panel maker that we met with on the show floor and the company had a wide range of impressive technology to show. AUO was showing a microLED-based prototype display that …

The Shrek of Quantum Dots

by Ken Werner

If you buy a quantum-dot (QD) or QLED-enchanced LCD-TV, it will have quantum dots made by or licensed by Nanosys. There are other quantum dot companies playing around the edges, and some claim they …

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 …

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 …