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SID ME Chapter Spring Meeting - Dresden, 18./19.03.2010 (2009-11-16 10:39)
The SID Mid Europe Chapter organizes yearly spring and fall meetings with technical and scientific presentations, attracting many European display professionals. The 2010 spring meeting will focus on different aspects of Personal Projection Displays based on OLED and MEMS devices, and their applications in Head-mounted Displays (HMD), Head-up Displays (HUD) and pico-projectors. Basic OLED and MEMS technology will be covered as well as electronic and optic components and systems or applications in consumer multimedia, automotive, industrial and security markets. Both lecture and poster sessions will be organized. The meeting will close on the second day with a visit to the laboratories of the Fraunhofer IPMS.
The 2010 SID-ME Spring Meeting will take place in Dresden on March 18-19, 2010.
The conference topic is "Personal Projection Displays - OLED and MEMS and new technologies for HMD, HUD and pico-projectors".
The meeting will be organised by Fraunhofer IPMS, Prof Karl Leo is chairing the conference.
Final Call for Papers:
Authors are kindly invited to submit manuscripts for oral or poster presentations.
Please send a one-page A4 summary and a 50 word abstract using the online form provided.
The deadline for submission is already on November 20, 2009.
Major topics:
- OLED and MEMS micro display technology and device design
- HMD, HUD and pico projector system design (electronics, optics, interfaces,...)
- Applications of HMD, HUD and pico-projectors in consumer multimedia, automotive, industrial and security markets
Exhibition:
An industrial exhibition will be held in conjunction with the conference, limited space is available for interested companies.
Please contact sidme2010@ipms.fraunhofer.de as soon as possible.
Call for SID-ME Chapter Student Award
The SID-MEC Student Award is granted for an outstanding scientific or technical achievement in, or contribution to research on information display. The award amounts 1500 Euro, with the obligation to present the contribution at the SID-MEC meeting where the award is presented. The conference fee is waived. The applicant must be a student member at an institute in the SID-MEC region (Note the favourable offer of $5.00 per year for student members).
The award committee consists presently of: Norbert Fruehauf, Herbert De Smet and Gerrit Oversluizen.
Application for SID-ME Chapter Student Award must include following details: Name, SID Membership No., Institute/University, Address, Title of contribution, Abstract (100-150 words), References (SID-ME member).
Application deadline is January 31, 2010.
Please send your application to the following email address: Herbert.DeSmet@elis.UGent.be
Further details on the conference, the location and registration process can be found in the flyer attached and at www.ipms.fraunhofer.de/sidme2010. Ines Schedwill (Fraunhofer IPMS) will help you in case of questions at sidme2010@ipms.fraunhofer.de.
According to the latest market research, revenues from digital out of home (DOOH) advertising in Europe will quadruple over the next five years ? from Euro 158 million in 2007 to a forecast of Euro 626 million by 2012. This means that DOOH media will be the only media to post real revenue growth in the next five years, while traditional media are challenged by a sluggish ad market and competition from the internet.
As the number and size of Europe?s DOOH networks increases, in-depth market knowledge will be at a premium. Don?t miss this unique opportunity to learn from the experience of professionals representing every link in the DOOH value chain ? from systems integrators and network operators to agencies, location owners and brand managers.
There will be no supplier presentations, so delegates will be able to focus their time on the business of DOOH and then address commercial interests by networking with other delegates and attending the Integrated Systems Europe AV tradeshow.
The conference will present the hard facts about the business, backed up by a wealth of market experience, delivered by top industry professionals from companies like Ströer, Clear Channel Outdoor, CBS Outdoor, ECE, JCDecaux, Metro Group, Posterscope, Interpublic Group and others. However, places are limited and will be allocated on a strictly first come, first served basis.
DFF has negotiated reduced rates for DFF members to participate at the Digital Out of Home Business Conference.
The Conference is connected to the Integrated Systems Europe 2009 at takes place at the Amsterdam Exhibition Center RAI in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) on February 2-3, 2009.
This is a dedicated business conference on digital signage. The focus of the conference is primarily to inform about business models and concepts on how to access the market. Apart from the technological information, the conference will bring you together with you potential clients in that field and explain their perspectives and issues.
The DOOH Conference will provide a platform for information exchange, a networking opportunity for professionals from a wide range of disciplines, and a unique insight into the technologies available.
Co-located with the Integrated Systems Europe AV tradeshow, the Conference will deliver papers from professionals representing every link in the DOOH value chain. These leading industry experts will share their thoughts and experiences without any commercial bias, providing an invaluable source of market information.
We could negotiate a reduced participation fee for DFF members, resulting in a 999 Euro fee for the two day conference. To benefit of this agreement, please contact the DFF secretariat at dff@vdma.org.
More information on the conference can be found at the following website or in the attachment.
http://www.iseurope.org/kcms
Global FPD Partners Conference (GFPC) 2008
Green & Growth - New FPD Driving Forces
April 9(Wed) - 12 (Sat)
Phoenix Seagaia Resort, Miyazaki, Japan
http://www.semi.org/gfpc
Organizer: SEMI
Supported by: Miyazaki Prefecture
Sponsored by: Korea Display Industry Association (KDIA),
LCD TV Association,
Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ),
Nikkei BP, Taiwan TFT LCD Association(TTLA) and
U. S. Display Consortium (USDC)
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GFPC is the only annual conference exclusively dedicated to company CEOs, presidents and senior-level executives in the global flat panel display (FPD) industry.
GFPC provides valuable networking opportunities and fosters information exchange and cooperation among executives within the FPD industry.
This year's theme is "Green and Growth - New FPD Driving Forces" and discussions will center around environment-related issues and growth drivers including new applications, markets and technologies.
* PRE-REGISTER ONLINE TODAY! *
>> http://www.semi.org/gfpc
Program Schedule
>> http://www.semi.org/gfpc
KEYNOTES
Opening Keynote Speech: Hsuan-Bin Chen, Vice-Chairman & CEO, AU Optronics
China LCD Industry: Xinhua Fu, President, SVA
Media & Display: Koki Tabe, General Manager, Public Relations, Softbank
Digital Cinema: Kazuo Hagimoto, Executive Director, NTT
EHS/Innovation: Yukinori Kuwano, President, Photovoltaic Power Generation Technology Research Association
Automobile: Keiji Yamamoto, President & CEO, Toyota InfoTechnology Center
Global Business Environment: Kazuhiko Toyama, CEO, Industrial Growth Platform
Closing Remarks: Shigeaki Mizushima, Executive Director & the GM of Display System Division, Sharp (invited)
PANEL DISCUSSION
Next Generation & Trend of Smartphone
Moderator: Yosuke Mochizuki, Nikkei Business Publications
Panelists: Vodafone, HTC, Willcom, NOKIA, RIM
This panel will discuss future trends as well as the various demands they will place on displays
The End of Paper Era, Future of e-Paper
Moderator: Makoto Omodani, Tokai University
Panelists: Toppan Printing, Seiko Epson, Sony (Invited), Google (Invited)
Potential users of e-paper and suppliers will discuss their requirements for e-paper and their roadmaps for commercialization.
Grand Final Panel gNew Opportunities for Continuing Growth of Display Industry h
Moderator: Ho Kyoon Chung, Samsung SDI
Panelists: Bundesdruckerei, 3M, Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Samsung Electronics, Sharp (invited)
This panel will discuss new growth opportunities, bringing in experts in the field of new application for FPDs.
BREAK-OUT PANELS
Attendees will break into groups to discuss the following themes:
1. BRICs/VISTA & Flat Panel Display
Moderator: Hideki Wakabayashi, President, Finnowave Investments
Panelists: InfoVision Optoelectronics, BRICs Research Institute, Matsushita Electric Industrial
2. Current Status and Future Prospects of OLED
Moderator: Hiroshi Asakura, Editor-in-Chef, Nikkei Microdevices, Nikkei Business Publications
Panelists: Idemitsu Kosan, Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology, Samsung SDI, Sumitomo Chemical, Sony
3. Solar Business & Technology
Moderator: J.C. Kim, CEO & Chairman, Edwards Korea
Hiroaki Kitahara, Representative, Technology and Business
Panelists: TS Corp., Manufactures from China, Europe, Japan (Invited)
EXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLE
Topics: gNew Opportunities for Growth in the Display Industry h
This unique session provides an opportunity for participants and speakers to freely exchange opinions and ideas in small groups.
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REGISTRATION FEE
SEMI Member: 304,500 Yen/person
Non-Member: 325,500 Yen/person
* Further Information:
>> http://www.semi.org/gfpc
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please visit http://www.semi.org/gfpc
or contact: SEMI Japan E-mail: jeventinfo@semi.org
Tel: +81.3.3222.5993 Fax: +81.3.3222.5790
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Training Workshop on Display Metrology at University Pforzheim on April 3-4, 2008
The DFF is organising a Display Metrology Workshop together with Prof. Karlheinz Blankenbach from the University Pforzheim.
The workshop combines the theory of display metrology with practical hands-on training and addresses managers, engineers and scientific staff that are engaged with specifications, data sheets and the characterisation of flat panel displays.
The workshop is held at the University Pforzheim on April 3-4, 2008.
The fee for the two-day workshop including the complete documentation and catering is 850 Euro per person.
DFF members can attend the workshop for a reduced fee of 530 Euro per person.
More detailed information and the application form.
This event jointly organised by the UK Display Masters, SID UKI and Displays & Lighting KTN will take place at Nottingham Trent University between 1st and 3rd April 2008. See Adria Events Calendar. This two day course spread over three days for easy traveling is an excellent introduction to all major displays technologies.
EU and EUREKA launch Eurostars programme for research-performing SMEs (2008-01-05 16:21)2007-10-03 - Europe has taken 'another step in the realisation of the European Research Area, this time to the benefit of SMEs [small and medium sized enterprises]', according to EU Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik, who helped to launch EUREKA's Eurostars programme on 2 October.
The programme will provide financial support, from both EU and the EUREKA member country funds, to Europe's young and innovative companies, described by Mr Potocnik as the 'lifeblood' of Europe's economy. The programme is aimed specifically at a niche market of research and innovation-performing businesses that fulfil the EU-adopted definition of an SME, are based in a country participating in Eurostars, and that invest 10% or more of their annual turnover in research.
'SMEs are the driving motor of the European economy because they are flexible. They can adapt quickly to the needs of the market,' said the Commissioner.
Importantly, the initiative has been welcomed by the SME community. Speaking at the launch, chairman of the European Federation of high-tech SMEs, Emmanuel Leprince, spoke of his 'high expectations' for the programme. He also talked of a 'glass ceiling' that is preventing most SMEs from reaching their full potential. Eurostars will help these young companies, so often considered by investors as the 'dangerous option', to get a foot on the ladder.
The attraction of Eurostars is that it is designed specifically for SMEs involved in research, said Mr Leprince. 'The Commission tackles red tape, regulations, standards etc. These are all important issues, but they are not the specific problems of SMEs,' he explained.
Some SME representatives would however like to see the criteria for participation widened so that more companies can benefit. Ullrich Schröder, research and development (R&D) advisor at the European craft and SME employers' organisation (UEAPME), said that the number of SMEs investing 10% or over in research is quite small, and that the barrier should be lowered to 5% in line with the definition of a high-tech SME used by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Representing the Slovenian Presidency of EUREKA, Ales Mihelic, General Director of the Slovenian Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, conceded that 10% is quite high, but pointed out that EUREKA has made it easier for more companies to participate by saying that they can also invest 10% of their full-time equivalent (FTE) in R&D.
Mr Potocnik highlighted how Eurostars will complement existing EU initiatives intended to support SMEs conducting research. Under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) the Commission set the target of having SMEs make up 15% of project participants. This target proved difficult to meet in some areas however. Under FP7, the Commission has simplified administrative procedures, increased the funding of SME projects from 50% to 75% of the project's cost, and introduced the guarantee fund. All of these measures are intended to make it easier for SMEs to participate in FP7.
But as the Commissioner pointed out, 'In FP7 Cooperation projects, SMEs aren't usually leading the projects.' Eurostars will enable SMEs to do just that, benefitting from ?100 million in Commission funding and ?300 million from 22 EU Member States and five countries associated to FP7. This capital is expected to attract a further ?400 million in private investment.
'Eurostars fills a gap that was existing, using tools that were on our market but not used in this combination,' said Mr Potocnik. The Commission's participation comes under Article 169 of the EU Treaty, which allows for the participation of the Community in research programmes run jointly by a number of EU Member States.
The Commissioner referred to these new and closer links between EUREKA and the framework programmes as a marriage. Alluding to questions over the Commission's commitment to funding Eurostars beyond its initial six-year timeframe, he said: 'As we all know, in a marriage, it is not enough to say 'yes' only at the beginning. You have to show that you mean it constantly.'
The imagery continued as the Commissioner concluded his speech, claiming that he was happy to be the best man at this marriage, and wishing Eurostars a long and happy life, with lots of healthy SMEs.
For further information, please visit:
http://www.eurostars-eureka.eu
2007-10-30 - A new EUREKA programme on microelectronics research will be established in 2008 when the current MEDEA+ programme comes to an end. The new programme, CATRENE, has two important novelties: the Light House Projects, which will address socioeconomic needs; and a new structure reflecting the increasing convergence between technology and applications.
The public-private partnership will aim at ensuring the continued development of European expertise in semiconductor technology and applications. Like MEDEA+, CATRENE will include all key actors in the value chain, from those working with applications, technology and materials to equipment suppliers. Industrial companies of all sizes, universities and research institutes will also participate, supported by public authorities.
'For more than a decade the EUREKA JESSI, MEDEA and MEDEA+ programmes have made it possible for Europe's industry to reinforce its position in semiconductor process technology, manufacturing and applications, and to become a key supplier to markets such as telecommunications, consumer electronics and automotive electronics,' said Jozef Cornu, chairman of MEDEA+ and designated chairman of CATRENE.
'Nanoelectronics will offer enormous opportunities to those who are the first to master and bring to market new technologies and applications and we believe that CATRENE will play a vital role in helping Europe's microelectronics industry to go from strength to strength,' Mr Cornu added.
The Lighthouse Projects will be focused research and development (R&D) programmes addressing major socioeconomic needs such as transportation, healthcare, security, energy and entertainment. New challenges are expected to arise in these areas as Europe's population ages, healthcare and energy costs shoot up, and transport systems are besieged by bottlenecks.
While previous programmes were divided into technology and applications sub-programmes, the increasing convergence of technology and applications were taken into account during the design phase of CATRENE. The new structure will focus on large application markets, identified in a roadmap of required technologies.
The MEDEA+ team identifies the following as CATRENE's key technology goals: maintaining and increasing Europe's strength in intellectual property (IP) across the entire electronics supply chain; maintaining and increasing Europe's leadership in lithography and silicon-on-insulator materials; ensuring that European companies are among the world leaders in advanced semiconductor technologies that allow entire systems to be integrated in a single package; and strengthening European expertise in applying a deep knowledge of semiconductor process technology to the efficient design of new electronics applications.
Like MEDEA+, CATRENE will run for four years, and will be extendable by a further four years.
MEDEA+ supported 77 projects, involving 20,000 person-years and around 450 partner organisations from large companies (38%), small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) (37%) and institutes and academia (25%). It led to important innovations in areas such as automotive and traffic control, broadband communications, secure society, energy-saving and healthcare.
For further information, please visit:
http://www.medeaplus.org
2007-11-15 - The European Eco Tv project has developed an innovative way of recycling the highly polluting components found in television and computer screens and turning them into such materials as ceramic floor tiles.
Over the last few years, flat screens and plasma displays have increased in popularity and gradually replaced cathode ray tube televisions and computer monitors in millions of households and businesses.
This technological shift has lead to major environmental concerns. As one United Nations University study found recently, electronic waste is set to rise from 10.3 to 12.3 million tonnes per year from 2005 to 2020 within the EU 27.
With this in mind, the researchers behind Eco Tv embarked on a project to recycle highly polluting electronic waste materials such as lead, barium and strontium, giving them a new lease of life, and helping to prevent the spread of landfills.
The project addresses the guidelines set out by several EU Directives, including the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive. This Directive places the responsibility for the disposal of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) with the equipment manufacturers. It also compels these companies to use the waste in an ecologically-friendly manner, either by ecological disposal or reuse.
The project, lead by the Provincial Council of Valencia in collaboration with the Valencian Construction Technology Institute (AIDICO) and E-misszió Environmental Association (Hungary), is currently half way through its two year duration.
The first results to come out of the project include ceramic tiles and resin based materials which could be applied to cement as an insulating component and a construction material.
Although at this stage the project is focusing exclusively on the 'Ecoparks' found in the Province of Valencia, the project partners hope that in the future it could evolve into a larger scale project employed in many European centres specialising in collecting, sorting and recycling urban waste.
Eco Tv is a subproject of the Regional Framework Operation (RFO) Perspective 2007-2013 and is co-financed by the European Union through the interregional cooperation programme Interreg IIIC South.
The initiative aims at establishing a strategy that can plan the joint use of Structural Funds in four regions of the European Union: Saxony-Anhalt (Germany), Central Region (France), Northern Great Plain (Hungary) and Valencian Region (Spain).
The results of the Eco Tv project were presented on 13 November in Valencia at a seminar entitled 'New challenges in electrical and electronic waste management'.
2007-08-22 - London, UK
The UK Department of Trade and Industry has granted funding to partners in industry and academe for the development of light sources for backlighting applications.
The two-year, ₤1.2 million effort is expected to yield high-brightness 405-nm LEDs with integrated photonic quasicrystals. Engineered to channel generated light to a exit cone, the structures could significantly increase the LEDs' efficiency, enabling flat panel displays incorporating the devices to use less electricity during operation.
Leading the project and providing gallium nitride and system integration expertise will be the Oxford-based Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd. The University of Glasgow and the Institute of Photonics at the University of Strathclyde, also in Glasgow, will construct the devices.
Seen at: Euro Photonics, June/July 2007
2007-08-22 - Bath, UK
An international group if researchers is seeking to produce organic LEDs (OLEDs) incorporated into thin plastic films for use in a variety of novel applications.
The consortium, known as Modecom and led by the University of Bath, UK, has received ?1.3 million in funding for the three-year project. The goal is to create products that are efficient and inexpensive enough for mass production. Depending on how they are made, the devices could be a source of either light or power.
The researchers said that the OLEDs eventually could be used for lighting displays on clothing, such as in an emergency situation where police and ambulance personnel could change the colour of their clothing with the press of a button. Other potential uses for the technology might include flashing messages on individual products (e.g. health warnings) or as a lightweight power source that could be rolled up and carried into remote locations.
The researchers come from the UK, the US, China, Belgium, Italy, and Denmark. The European Union is funding the European and Chinese groups.
Seen at: Euro Photonics, June/July 2007
2007-08-17 - OSRAM Opto Semiconductors plans to stop producing passive matrix displays based on OLEDs (PM-OLEDs) at the end of 2007. Instead, the company will focus its OLED activities on developing market-ready OLED lighting solutions. Its display manufacturing line in Penang, Malaysia, will cease production at the end of the year and the 270 employees there will be transferred to other activities within OSRAM Opto Semiconductors.
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has been manufacturing and marketing PM-OLEDs under the brand name of Pictiva? since the end of 2003. However, demand for the displays has lagged far behind the company's expectations. As a result the company has decided to withdraw from the display business and concentrate exclusively on its core business of lighting.
Dr Rudiger Muller, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors CEO, commented, "We have decided for strategic reasons to withdraw from the passive matrix display business and close our production line in Penang. Obviously we shall honor our obligations toward our customers and employees and look for constructive solutions in close cooperation with these groups. Our attention in the OLED sector will now be focused exclusively on our core business, lighting solutions with organic LEDs, for example for area lighting."
www.osram-os.com
2007-07-17 - BASF and Bosch are cooperating on special research activities with the Dresden-based company Heliatek GmbH. BASF Venture Capital GmbH and Robert Bosch GmbH are each investing ?1.6 million in the start-up company, which was founded in 2006. The other investors are Wellington Partners and the High-Tech Gründerfonds.
Heliatek specialises in the manufacture of new-generation organic solar cells. The company is working on an ultra-efficient technology to build large-scale modules on cheap, flexible substrates using a roll-to-roll production process.
More information on www.heliatek.com and www.basf-vc.de and www.bosch.com
2007-07-17 - BASF and Bosch are to cooperate in the field of organic photovoltaics (OPV) and are founding members of the technology initiative of Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The German government and its industry partners have pledged to invest in research to promote the new technology, which is aimed at making the manufacture of solar cells much more cost-effective and at the same time increasing the areas of application. The BMBF will provide ?60 million for research, while the initiative's current industry partners ? BASF, Bosch, Merck and Schott ? plan to spend up to ?300 million.
BASF is researching semi-conductive organic materials with high thermal and photo-thermal stability. BASF contributes its broad-based expertise in the field of organic electronics and the design, synthesis and production of complex organic compounds to the project.
As part of the newly launched initiative, the Bosch Group will be looking at issues relating to industrial production. Siegfried Dais, deputy chairman of the Bosch Board of Management explained that they want to use organic photovoltaics to make solar energy available cost-effectively which can only be done through efficient mass production, and that Bosch will be developing the appropriate processes.
The researchers want to develop organic solar cells that convert at least 10% of the incident light into energy and offer a service life of more than ten years.
Dr Stefan Marcinowski, BASF Executive Research Director, said, "BASF is working in close interdisciplinary collaboration with Bosch ? and at an early stage. This will allow us to jointly create the conditions needed to develop the product more swiftly and to gain a competitive advantage globally. Organic photovoltaics becomes a strategic focus of our Growth Clusters Energy Management and Nanotechnology."
More information on www.bosch.com and www.basf.com
2007-07-17 - Novaled has achieved outstanding results in lifetime for green bottom emission PIN OLEDs with more than 200,000 hours at an initial brightness of 1,000 cd/m2 and very low driving voltages.
The achievement of a green PIN PHOLED? phosphorescent OLED device in bottom-emission geometry with a CIE of (0.36, 0.61) of above 200,000 hours was attained by combining Universal Display's high-efficiency phosphorescent OLED materials with low-voltage Novaled PIN-OLED? technology and doped transport materials.
Jan Blochwitz-Nimoth, CTO, said, "This achievement demonstrates that the Novaled PIN OLED? not only provides very good lifetime results, but in addition is the most suitable approach for reaching lowest operating voltages."
Jan Birnstock, VP Technology Transfer, added, "We expect that very low driving voltages below 2.6 V which we already achieved for Ir(ppy)3 can also be obtained for other phosphorescent green emitters."
Full story at www.novaled.com
2007-07-17 - Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) has signed a patent licence agreement with an undisclosed major Japanese chemical company. The licence encompasses certain light emitting polymer (LEP) devices.
The licensee has paid an upfront fee to CDT and will also pay royalties based on its sales revenues for products which incorporate LEP technology.
www.cdtltd.co.uk
2007-07-12 - KALUGA, Russia - Samsung Electronics will soon build a large-scale TV factory near Moscow, according to a June 11 report in Korean newspaper, The Chosun Ilbo. According to the report, the company said it would construct a 195,000-sq.-meter, $57-million factory in Kaluga, which is 85 km southwest of Moscow.
Construction is scheduled to begin next month and finish by October 2008, with production aimed at 2.2 million units annually by 2010.
Seen at: http://www.informationdisplay.org/newsa … Art=news59
2007-02-05 - Telecom Italia and Polymer Vision are to launch the world's first rollable display-enabled mobile device in 2007. Telecom Italia will market the device in Italy while Polymer Vision will market it in the rest of the world. The device will be presented as a world first at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona.
The device uses Polymer Vision's rollable display technology which enables mobile devices to incorporate a display larger than the handset itself and offers a readability similar to printed paper. The product follows up on the Readius® concept device which Polymer Vision presented less than 18 months ago. Telecom Italia customers will be able to buy entire newspapers and books over the mobile network and then store them in the terminal's 4 Gigabyte memory.
Seen at http://www.cintelliq.com
Press release and pictures at
http://www.polymervision.com/News-Cente … theCE.html and
http://www.telecomitalia.it
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2007-01-31 - Ciba Specialty Chemicals and VTT Technical Research Centre are to collaborate on a two-year multidisciplinary research project which will focus on the development of novel materials and processes for printing organic electronics and aims to open up new application areas. Tekes, the Finnish funding agency for research and innovation, will fund most of the project costs.
Ciba is already developing novel organic electroluminescent and semiconductor materials both on its own and with research partners. Ciba and VTT have already collaborated for several years on research into roll-to-roll printing processes for organic electronics. Ciba also recently announced that it is collaborating with the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research to develop novel conductive polymers for printable applications.
Seen at http://www.cintelliq.com
Press releases at
http://www.cibasc.com and
http://www.vtt.fi
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2007-01-28 - Lighting firm Osram GmbH and Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV have signed a patent cross-license agreement covering optoelectronic semiconductors. The agreement involves the mutual licensing of patents for all inorganic and organic LED technologies, Osram (Munich, Germany) said.
'We expect this to put us in an even better position to use LED technology to serve the demands of the market' , said Ruediger Muller, president and CEO of Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).
The agreement relates to patents held by Philips (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), including its U.S. subsidiary Philips Lumileds Lighting Company (San Jose, Calif.), and by Osram, including its subsidiary Osram Opto Semiconductor, Osram said.
More at http://ledsmagazine.com/articles/news/4/1/32
The original press releases can be found at
http://www.osram.com and http://www.philips.com
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2007-01-24 - Polymer Vision is to work with Innos to establish the world's first production facility for organic semiconductor-based rollable displays. Manufacturing is expected to start this year.
Polymer Vision has spent the past three years processing displays in its own pilot facility in Eindhoven to develop the technology to maturity. Polymer Vision and Innos will transfer the process technology and finalise qualifications in Southampton, UK, where Innos has already started installing equipment in its newly built cleanroom. In line with its strategy to use mainstream Thin Film Transistor equipment, Polymer Vision is confident that it will rapidly scale up to commercial volumes in 2007.
About Innos
Based in Southampton, UK, Innos provides industry and academic institutions with access to full processing capability for silicon-based devices. It has an expert team of engineers, technicians and academics in addition to over 20 years experience of silicon processing expertise, applying nanomaterials concepts to silicon-based devices.
Full story at http://www.polymervision.com/News-Cente … Index.html and
http://www.innos.co.uk
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2007-01-17 - OLED-T and Microsharp are to collaborate on a two year project to develop a high efficiency white-light, thin, flexible, on-plastic OLED solid state lighting system. The prototype will initially be geared towards the flat panel display market, in particular micro and flexible displays.
OLED-T and Microsharp will be looking to develop prototypes that take advantage of the increasing trend towards better performing and thinner units that offer lower operating costs. For the purposes of the project OLED-T will be developing new white OLED materials.
The total grant for the project is £225,000. Part of this funding has been provided by the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Electronics and Photonics Collaborative R&D Competition of the Technology Programme.
Seen at http://www.cintelliq.com
Full story at http://www.oled-t.com and
http://www.microsharp.co.uk
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2007-01-16 - OTB Display has mass-produced thin film encapsulated OLED devices on its in-line manufacturing equipment which meet the shelf-life requirements for commercial use. According to OTB Display, the deposition of the thin film encapsulation has been proven to give the same optical performance as the conventional, more expensive glass-can encapsulated devices.
Bas van Rens, OTB Display CEO, explained, "Our integrated in-line mass manufacturing equipment now routinely produces displays which pass the accelerated shelf life of 504 hrs at 60°C / 90% humidity. In our development program we observe rapid progress and we expect to be able to announce shelf lifes exceeding 1000 hours at 85°C/ 85% this year."
The full press release can be found at
http://www.otbdisplay.com/display/files … _Jan07.pdf
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2007-01-03 - Polymer Vision, which has been operating within Philips' Technology Incubator group, is set to become an independent company. The new company will be called Polymer Vision Ltd., and will focus on products for the rollable display market. Technology Capital has invested ?21 million in the company and will become the major shareholder. Philips will retain a 20 percent stake in the new company.
The transaction will allow Polymer Vision to push ahead with its commercialisation plans to meet strong market demand from the mobile device industry. Volume production of its 5-inch monochrome rollable display will start this year in cooperation with existing partners. The company will continue to operate from its location at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Read the full story at
http://www.polymervision.com/News-Cente … Group.html
http://www.research.philips.com/technol … elpap.html
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New volume manufacturing facility to ramp-up in 2008 in Dresden.
2007-01-03 - Plastic Logic announced today that it will build the first factory to manufacture plastic electronics on a commercial scale. The facility will produce flexible active-matrix display modules for ?take anywhere, read anywhere? electronic reader products. It will utilize Plastic Logic?s unique process to fabricate active-matrix displays that are thin, light and robust; enabling a reading experience closer to paper than any other technology.
The factory will have an initial capacity of over one million display modules per year and production will start in 2008. The factory will be located in Dresden, Germany. According to the company the market for portable electronic reader devices is predicted to grow to 41.6 million units by 2010.
To fund this commercialisation programme, Plastic Logic has completed a first closing of $100 million of equity finance led by Oak Investment Partners and Tudor Investment Corporation. Existing investors Amadeus, which led the seed financing of Plastic Logic, Intel Capital, Bank of America, BASF Venture Capital, Quest for Growth and Merifin Capital also participated. The financing is one of the largest in the history of European venture capital.
Read more at
http://www.plasticlogic.com/news-detail.php?id=300
www.amadeuscapital.com
www.oakinv.com
www.tudorfunds.com
www.intel.com/capital
www.bankofamerica.com
www.basf-vc.de
www.questforgrowth.com
www.merifin.com
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2006-12-22 - As the European Commission announced in their Official Journal today, the first call for proposals in the Information and Communication Technology sector (ICT) has been launched (Reference: OJ C316).
The Call Identifier is FP7-ICT-2007-1. The total budget of the call is ? 1.019 million. The deadline is 08 May 2007 at 17:00 (Brussels local time). The call is made in the Coorperation Specific Programme of the 7th framework programme of the European Commission.
As announced at the IST-Conference in Helsinki in November, part of this call is also dedicated to the organic electronics and displays technology sectors (see newsbit published before). Please check pages 24ff (chapter 3.3) of the work programme for further details (Objective ICT-2007.3.2: Organic and large-area electronics, visualisation and display systems).
The workprogramme and more information can also be found at
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/
You can also get help at your National Contact Point
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp6/ncp.htm
We recommend to employ the adria competence mapping database for partner searches.
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2006-12-07 ? Photonics have been given a firm place in the EU?s 7th Framework Programme (FP7). The European Commission plans to create a new unit dedicated to photonics and to increase funding for the enabling technology by more than 40% (90 million ?) for photonics in the years 2007-08. These were the positive results that the Photonics21 European Technology Platform presented at its annual meeting in Brussels.
From 2007 the European Commission will establish a separate unit for photonics under the Directorate G in the DG Information Society and Media (INFSO). By creating this new unit which will be headed by Thierry van der Pyl, the EC follows a recommendation of Photonics21 that was expressed in the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA).
adria has contributed to the Photonics21 SRA in the Displays and Lighting area with its vision paper and in workshops and discussions.
For more information please visit
http://www.photonics21.org
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2006-11-23 - At the European Commissions Information Society Technologies (IST) FP7 launch in Helsinki, Marc Boukerche of the EC reported yesterday that a budget of ?63 million would be available for the Organic and Large Area Electronics and Display Systems areas as part of the 2007 FP7 IST Workprogramme. The first call for proposals will be opened in December and is expected to close in April/May 2007.
In session 7B Marc Boukerche gave details on objectives and the expected outcome of the programme. His presentation can be downloaded at http://ec.europa.eu/information_society … fm?id=1052
In the same session, introductions to selected topics for this area have been given by
? W. Mildner (PolyIC) - Organic Electronics ? Chances and challenges for a future technology platform
? I. Sexton (De Monfort University) - Multi User 3D displays, 3D TVs
? H. Metras (CEA-LETI) - Trends in wireless sensors: towards the use of nanoscale devices
The presentations can also be downloaded at the session website above.
4.500 delegates from all over Europe joined the official launch of the IST in the EU Commissions 7th Framework Programme in Helsinki (http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/istevent/2006/). A follow-up meeting in Cologne will help to form consortia for the call.
The Photonics area (including OLED) will be part of call 2 (May/June 2007).
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2006-11-23 - A UK consortium, consisting of Keeling & Walker, Patterning Technologies and Nottingham Trent University, has developed a process for inkjet printing transparent conductors for displays, which is cheaper than using indium tin oxide (ITO).
The inkjet-able material is antimony tin oxide (ATO) which is cheaper and easier to obtain than indium. The consortium turned ATO into an ink as it is too inert to be etched in the traditional sputter-pattern-etch process used to deposit ITO.
Keeling & Walker used a proprietary process for making nano-particulate ATO which can be dispersed into a printing medium, in this case water. This means that the substrate has to be wettable to be printed. The consortium is working on non-water inks for difficult surfaces.
After printing, the ink is annealed to fuse the particles into a continuous conductor. So far, thermal annealing at 700°C gives the best results. A sheet resistance of 100 ohms/square compares with 20-50 ohms/square for sputtered ITO, with 90 percent light transmission compared to ITO.
Thermal annealing down to 400°C is possible, with increased sheet resistance, as is laser annealing. The consortium hopes to eventually cut annealing temperatures while maintaining or reducing sheet resistance, or to remove the annealing step completely so that ATO can be applied to plastics.
Final printed conductor costs have not yet been established, but as a guide to possible savings, Lipiec pointed out that:
ITO is 90 percent indium, which costs $1,000 per kilo
ATO is 90 percent tin at $10 per kilo, and antimony is under $3 per kilo.
Article seen at
http://electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2 … splays.htm
posted also at
http://www.cintelliq.com/newsletter
See also
http://www.keelingwalker.co.uk
http://www.pattech.com
http://www.ntu.ac.uk
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2006-11-15 - Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) has announced a new development in OLED display technology: Total Matrix Addressing, or TMA?.
Currently large OLED displays are only feasible by using active matrix (AM) technology incorporating an expensive thin-film transistor (TFT) layer. Passive matrix (PM) displays, which are driven by cheaper external chips, are restricted to smaller screen sizes. CDT's new TMA technology can be incorporated into driver chips to bring AM capabilities to PM displays. TMA reduces power consumption and enhances panel lifetime for a given pixel count in PM displays. Measurements on small PM displays that incorporated the TMA solution showed that they used at least 50% less power or doubled the display luminescence at the same power consumption.
The TMA driving system applies both to polymer and small molecule OLED displays. CDT is in discussion with OLED display producers and IC driver companies with a view to commencing design work for commercialising TMA as soon as possible.
The full story is available at
http://www.cdtltd.co.uk/news/546.asp
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2006-09-22 - A £10m project, called the Plastic Electronics Technology Centre (PETeC), which aims to make the North-East of England a leader in plastic electronics technology, has been announced.
One NorthEast (the regional development agency) and County Durham Economic Partnership are investing a total of £6.2m in the project, with European money making up the rest of the investment for the facility. PETeC will be based at NETPark in Sedgefield, County Durham.
The UK Department for Trade and Industry is contributing a further £2.1m to be invested in the first platform installation in the centre. PETeC will be managed by Cenamps - the North-East's centre of excellence for emerging small-scale technologies. The aim of PETeC is to establish the North East of England as a global leader in the application of plastic electronics research, making specialised facilities and expertise available to companies seeking to develop new products and services for use in a wide range of markets.
A PDF booklet with the full story can be downloaded at
http://www.cenamps.com/media_centre/publications.htm
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2006-09-14 - The Scottish technology company MicroEmissive Displays Ltd. (MED) will built a displays fab in Dresden, Germany. The AIM (London Stock exchange) listed designer and manufacturer of low-power microdisplays using light emitting polymers for portable consumer electronics products, announced its intention to raise approximately EUR 7.5 million to secure the company's planned move to high-volume manufacturing of its eyescreens(TM). The new manufacturing facilities is located in Dresden, Germany, with the first volume shipment from these facilities anticipated in the second quarter of 2007.
The eyescreens(TM) are microdisplays based ond polymer OLED technology, approx. a quarter square centimeters in size and will be used in camcorders, digital still cameras and other consumer electronics. The company expects market opportunity in 'video-on-the-move' applications as well as the electronic viewfinder market. The 350 sq m purpose built cleanroom is housed within the Fraunhofer IPMS campus.
Christopher Smith, Chairman of MED, said 'We are delighted with the progress that Bill Miller and his team have made over the last 12 months. The proceeds from this placing will help secure the Company's planned move to volume manufacturing in 2007 in Dresden, Germany. We believe that this will enable
MED to take advantage of what we consider to be significant market opportunities for our product, eyescreen(TM).?
More information can be found at
http://www.microemissive.com/corporate/ … -09-06.pdf
http://www.sachsen.de/de/wu/wirtschafts … nguageID=1
http://www.saxxess.com/news/archiv/2006 … n/8039.jsp
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2006-09-11 - The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will sponsor the development of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) during the next five years as part of the Federal Government's high-tech strategy. The government will fund 100 million euros, the companies involved are to contribute a further 500 million euros. On the occasion of the launching of the ministry's OLED initiative, Annette Schavan, the Federal Minister of Education and Research, said in Ludwigshafen on Monday that the optical technologies were "an engine for innovation and growth in Germany." The opening was celebrated together with the inauguration of the new Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) of German chemistry giant BASF.
The research projects are aimed at helping to find ways to produce future large-scale, flexible light sources and transparent displays cost-efficiently. During the first phase of the initiative the BMBF will contribute to five research clusters comprising a total of 33 partners from universities, research institutes and private sector companies. Representatives of BASF, Merck KGaA, Optrex Europe, Osram Opto Semiconductors and Philips Deutschland were part of the ceremony and underlined the strategic importance of OLED technology and the OLED initiative for their companies.
adria has been present at the ceremony.
More information can be found at
http://www.bmbf.de/de/3604.php
http://www.media.basf.com/en/innovation … 9u5Abcp-9O
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/78047
http://www.cintelliq.com/newsletter.htm
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2006-04-20 - Sharp Corporation has announced that it is negotiating with the government of the Republic of Poland to construct a manufacturing facility for LCD modules in the city of Torun in Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodship in the north-central part of that country. The objective is to meet the needs of the LCD TV market in Europe which is predicted to undergo extremely rapid growth in the near future.
This facility will begin production of LCD modules in January 2007, for large-screen LCD TVs to be manufactured at plants at Sharp Electrónica España S.A. (SEES) in Spain and Loewe Opta GmbH in Germany. Unit production volumes will gradually be increased in the future to meet the demands of the rapidly expanding European market for LCD TVs.
Initial investment is expected to be approximately 44 million Euros (approximately 6 billion yen), with a workforce (at start-up) of around 800 employees.
Information retrieved from Sharp Corporation. The full information can be retrieved at http://sharp-world.com/corporate/news/060413.html.
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Incorporating salmon DNA into the structure of a conventional OLED makes it ten times more efficient and thirty times brighter, say researchers in the US.
Salmon DNA could hold the key to more efficient and brighter OLEDs, according to researchers in the US. By incorporating a thin layer of DNA into the OLED structure, the team says its "BioLEDs" are as much as ten times more efficient and thirty times brighter than their conventional counterparts.
The team's idea involves using the DNA as an electron-blocking layer. This improves the probability of electrons and holes recombining and emitting photons, which in turn enhances the device's luminance. "It turns out that DNA has nearly ideal energy levels that allow hole transport to proceed unimpeded while it prevents electrons being transported too quickly," says Andrew Steckl from the University of Cincinnati.
The team tested a green- and blue-emitting BioLED against conventional OLEDs and found that the DNA electron blocking layer improved the luminance in both cases. For a current density of 200 mA/cm2, the green BioLED achieved 15000 cd/m2, whereas the baseline device reached just 4500 cd/m2. On the other hand, the blue BioLED had a luminance of 1500 cd/m2 at 200 mA/cm2, while the corresponding baseline device reached around 800 cd/m2.
Information extracted from http://optics.org/articles/news/12/5/11 which is based on an article in Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 88, p. 171109.
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Ian Underwood, Director of Strategic Marketing, MicroEmissive Displays identified his company?s 3.84 x 2.88 mm microdisplay as being listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world?s smallest television screen. He discussed polymer OLED microdisplays and their current use in electronic viewfinders for digital still and video cameras. In the future, he explained that they will be used as wearable displays for computer games, DVD/TV viewers and cell phones, creating ?virtual images? that create the appearance of large-screen images near-to-the-eye. Underwood quipped, ?Often when I talk about wearable displays, I see believers and non-believers. If you?re over twenty and a non-believer, I don?t care, because it?s the 15-year-olds who will be driving this market. I believe in the youth market.? He hinted at near-term plans to move to much higher volumes, involving quarter-inch microdisplays (at 320 x 240 pixels) with low power consumption and a fully digital interface.
For more on MicroEmissive Displays visit http://www.microemissive.com/
From: Intertech 7th Annual OLED Conference, 14-16 November 2005, San Diego, California
by courtesy of: Veritas et Visus Flexible Substrate January 2006
For more news & reports on flexible displays & substrates see: www.veritasetvisus.com
Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam have succeeded in constructing transparent OLED displays using light-emitting polymers. Their brightness, operating lifetime and efficiency are so high that the first commercial applications can be envisaged, IAP says. Displays made of organic LEDs are brightly lit but tend to be mostly opaque. Making them transparent opens up applications: OLEDs can be wedded with conventional LCDs and transform laminated glass into a display panel. ?We achieved this result by using a new type of metal electrode to supply the polymer film with electric current,? reports Armin Wedel of the IAP. ?The clue of the transparency lies in its physical properties.? Earlier metal oxide coatings were too thick to allow enough light to pass through. But making them thinner reduces their conductivity and hence the luminescence and operating lifetime of the display. With the achieved degree of transparency, OLED displays can now be combined with the mature technology of TFT liquid crystal displays. The researchers are considering integrating additional functions directly in displays, such as highlighted areas or flashing warning symbols. By combining the two types, it becomes possible to concentrate a higher density of information content within the same surface area. Project partner Optrex Europe located near Frankfurt has already produced demonstration models of the hybrid display. Some new ideas are being investigated in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam and the University of the Arts in Bremen. Transparent OLEDs allow conventional displays to be illuminated from the back or front. Once the manufacturing process for larger surface areas has been mastered, it will be possible to incorporate the light-emitting polymers in laminated glass. The result could transform car windshields or glazing elements in buildings into display panels that do not interfere with the main function of letting in daylight or allowing a clear view out. Another novel idea is a two-color transparent display: the ability to mix colors permits the creation of entirely new effects and applications, IAP says.
From: Intertech 7th Annual OLED Conference, 14-16 November 2005, San Diego, California
by courtesy of: Veritas et Visus Flexible Substrate January 2006
For more news & reports on flexible displays & substrates see: www.veritasetvisus.com
Andy Kim, Principal Engineer, Samsung Electronics. Kim discussed Samsung?s development of a 40 inch AMOLED display, repeating cautions mentioned by M.H. Kim about the pace of improvement related to TFT LCDs. He summarized that small/medium OLEDs are likely to all be small molecule, while large screens must be polymer OLED ? without shadow mask and without evaporation. Kim emphasized that costs need to be cut by about 40% before AMOLED can be competitive. The number of mask steps must be cut from seven to five. Kim also advised that four-color rendering provided several advantages that help OLEDs out, but it?s not clear that this technology will take off. The 40 inch display employed RGBW at 1280 x 800 pixels, but the pixel count and pixel density are not comparable to traditional RGB solutions. He also emphasized the difficulties of encapsulating large area displays. In response to audience questions, Kim advised that white color aging does not seem to pose much of a problem.
From: Intertech 7th Annual OLED Conference, 14-16 November 2005, San Diego, California
by courtesy of: Veritas et Visus Flexible Substrate January 2006
For more news & reports on flexible displays & substrates see: www.veritasetvisus.com
Seoul, Korea ? November 28 th , 2005 - Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., announced that it has developed the world's largest transmissive TFT LCD ( thin-film transistor addressed liquid crystal display), with sufficiently high resolution to display digital television content.
The seven-inch, 640x480 (VGA-standard) flexible display uses a transparent plastic substrate that is thinner, lighter and more durable than the conventional LCD glass panels used today. Moreover, the full-color transmissive LCD panel maintains a constant thickness even when it is bent.
Considered the next-generation in flat panel displays, this technology involves the use of pliable plastic instead of rigid glass substrates in TFT-LCD production. The plastic will not break when flexed, allowing much greater freedom in commercial designs requiring flexible full-color, high-resolution display components. The seven-inch flexible TFT-LCD is optimized for mobility applications, including cell phones and notebook computers. System designers and OEMs also may apply the advanced Samsung display technology to new applications, such as fashion-enhancing or wearable electronic display designs, thanks to its differentiated flexible format.
With this advancement, Samsung claims to have overcome daunting problems involving the plastic substrate's heat sensitivity including a previous challenge to maintain the display's substrate thickness when subjected to typical commercial thermal conditions. Samsung developed an low-temperature processing technique that can be used to manufacture the display's amorphous thin-film transistors, color filters and liquid crystals at process temperatures much lower than standard glass-based, amorphous silicon (a-Si )technology.
Drawing on technology adopted for the production of low-temperature (less than 130 degrees Celsius) a-Si TFT LCD and color filter, Samsung's proprietary LCD technology minimizes substrate deformation by preventing not only changes in thickness but also distortion of images by binding two extremely-thin panels together through a new proprietary system design.
Specification of the Samsung 7 a-Si TFT-LCD
Display Mode: Transmissive
Screen Size (diagonal): 7 inches
Pixel Matrix: 640 x 480 x RBG
Resolution: 114 ppi
Aperture Ratio: 40 %
Luminance: 100 cd/m2
Color Gamut: 60 % of NTSC theoretical gamut
For more information, see: www.samsung.com
New Addition to Pictiva Portfolio claimed to provide alternative to LCDs
SAN JOSE, Calif. ? January 9, 2006 ? OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has announced the newest addition to its Pictiva line of organic light-emitting diode (polymeric OLED) graphic display products. This new 2.7-inch, 128 x 64 pixel display offers a lifetime of 55,000 hours. This enables applications in the mainstream commercial, medical and industrial markets where high performance and long life are critical aspects.
The specifications of the new display are:
size (diagonal): 2.7 inches
pixel matrix: 128x64
lifetime: 55,000 hours
contrast ratio (darkroom): 2000:1
cone of emission: 180-degree
ultrafast switching
thin profile
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read more at: http://www.osram-os.com/
The EU Commission's regulation 2171/2005 stipulates that wide-screen 20" LCDs with a DVI input and 21" flat screens in 4:3 format will be subject to an increased tax rate of 14 percent starting in mid-January. Up to now, this rate only applied to displays with TV or video input.
The current regulation remains unclear about the classification of smaller monitors. While the Gazette does state that 15" screens without a DVI input can be imported to the EU without customs fees, 15"-20" monitors with the typical 4:3 and 5:4 formats for PCs are not discussed. As one Bitkom official put it, the regulation is "not crystal clear," and the Ministry will have to interpret it. (Craig Morris) / (anw/c't)
see the complete notice at: http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/68239
Cambridge Display Technology Receives Jean Pierre Noblanc Award For Excellence
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom, 17th January 2006 - Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) is proud to announce that it was a joint recipient of the Jean Pierre Noblanc Award for Excellence for its participation in a collaborative project to develop a 'Pocket Multimedia' (PMM) display prototype.
The award was instituted by MEDEA+, the European initiative assigned to ensure Europe's competitiveness in microelectronics.
The overall objective of the PMM project was to encourage a shorter time-to-market for mobile multimedia applications by defining and developing a SAP (Silicon Application Platform) targeted to fulfil mobile consumer application requirements.
The PMM work was chosen for the award from a broad range of projects and was selected on criteria such as: degree of innovation, exploitation potential, quality and efficiency of project and co-operation and management.
The European research team included partners from across Europe including: ARMINES-CMM, CDT, Coding Technologies, Philips, STMicroelectronics, Thomson and URMET SISTEMI, working together for three years. Clear product applications have been identified, and as a result of the project, exploitation plans have been developed by a number of the participating companies.
Daniel den Engelsen is asking this question and provides useful information on the status of surface conduction electron emitter displays, SEDs in the attached article.
This paper is available at the following url:
http://www.adria-network.org/supdocs/Ar … g back.pdf
