May 2016 – At the San Francisco SID Display Week event the business track highlighted the state of the industry and directions that are being followed. The highlight was the high growth being seen in the AMOLED marketplace. This is being driven by the high unit volumes of mobile devices. Correspondingly, the LCD marketplace was…
August 5, 2014, Emerging Display Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Paul Semenza from NPD DisplaySearch, Bob Senior from Canatu, and Sri Srinivas from Raydiance discussed the emerging flexible and curved displays. The drivers for non-planar displays are greater flexibility in design and the conflicting demands for smaller and lighter versus larger screens. Semenza opened with a…
February 13, 2014, Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium, UC-Berkeley, CA—Ana Arias presented work on flexible electronics that can change forms and shapes to provide different measurements for health, medicine, and imaging. These platforms will use other substrates than standard semiconductors, but may be hybrid integration of organic and silicon circuits. Flexible circuits usually are processed…
October 24, 2013, Robo Business, Santa Clara, CA—Henrik Christensen from Georgia Tech highlighted the issues included in the 2013 US National Robotics Roadmap. The roadmap identifies the business drivers and technology applications and barriers to greater adoption. The opportunities for growth in robotics comes from the co-functions possible. Co-workers, co-infrastructure, and co-protectors are all possible….
July 11, 2012, Flextech Alliance Workshop, San Francisco—Matt Grimshaw from Future Fab International moderated a panel on metal oxide thin film transistors at a workshop held during the Semicon conference. Panel members included Malcolm Thompson, chief technical advisor from Flextech Alliance, David Barnes, analyst from Bizwitz, David Allee from the Flexible Display Center at Arizona…
January 25, 2011, Photonics West, San Francisco–Cheng-Dong Kim, vice president of R&D at the LG Research Center talked about “technology challenges in e-paper to flexible display application”. The universe of displays is changing dramatically, and the old standby CRTs are rapidly becoming obsolete. User needs and requirements are driving technology changes in displays. CRTs are…