January 7, 2013, CES, Las Vegas—Press day at CES is a chance for exhibitors to capture some members of the press for a while, and make a pitch about their latest and greatest new gadgets. This event is an opportunity to package a message and put new releases into some perspective, in an environment more…
December 10, 2012, International Electron Devices Meeting, San Francisco—Seonki Kim from Samsung presented a view of the current state of the art and the future prospective for the display industry. Changes will take place at both the macro and micro levels for all displays. Displays have evolved from analog CRTs by adding color, and these…
December 6, 2012, Printed Electronics USA, Santa Clara, CA—Erkki Soininen Canatu from Canatu described the work in carbon nanotubes and fullerenes for flexible and formable touch screens. The materials are positioned as replacements for ITO-based touch sensors. Carbon nanotubes with a fullerene attached are conductive, transparent, non-reflective, and flexible as conductors. This work is addressing…
October 2012 – At a San Jose press event, the team from Imagination Technologies in the UK held a briefing to overview their current product offerings and their historical product shipments reaching the 1B unit level. The company is on track to be included in products that are shipping at the rate of 1M units/day…
October 24, 2012, Renesas DevCon, Anaheim, CA—We talked with Cathy Dotson, Dale Maunu, Dean Collins, and Yuji Kondo from NLT Displays about their various display products. The displays are from the former NEC LCD Technologies company and geared for industrial use. The context for the display group is that they are not in the consumer-grade…
August 14, 2012, Emerging Display Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA—G. Rajeswaran form Moser Baer Technologies presented the advances in OLED technology for displays and lighting. The latest technologies have evolved from work starting in the mid ’80s. Kodak started their efforts to make solar cells, but the materials didn’t absorb energy, they emitted light. Along…
August 13, 2012, Display Search Emerging Display Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Waguih Ishak from the Corning West Technology Center described their efforts to improve the glass characteristics to enable the latest displays. Corning conducts a lot of R&D in materials and processing to improve their glass. As a glass manufacturer, Corning been in the business…
August 13, 2012, Display Search Emerging Display Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Michael Spaid from Cambrios talked about new transparent conductive materials for touch sensors. The availability of rare earth materials like indium is driving the industry to look at alternatives. The number of layers requiring transparent conductors in touch displays is increasing and getting more…
August 13, 2012, Emerging Display Technologies Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Jennifer Colegrove from DisplaySearch reviewed the touch and interactive technologies markets. The markets and supply chains are growing in revenue as well as the number of vendors involved. Touch screen module revenue was $4.3billion in ’09, growing to $7.1B in ’10. This is expected to exceed…
August 13, 2012, Display Search Emerging Display Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Mark Hamblin from Touch Revolution compared and contrasted touch on lens and in-cell technologies. The need for higher performance and lower costs are competing with increased manufacturing complexity in the target technologies. Capacitive touch interfaces need two layers of ITO to form the sensor…