Editorial
The Future Awaits and
SID Can Be Your Guide
By Stephen P. Atwood
Industry News
Panasonic Closes
Plasma-TV Assembly Plant in Shanghai
By Jenny Donelan
Guest Editorial
The Challenges and
Opportunities of Large OLED TVs
By Ho-Kyoon Chung
2013 SID Honors and Awards
This year’s winners of the Society for Information Display’s Honors and Awards include Dr. Isamu Akasaki, who will receive the Karl Ferdinand Braun Prize for his seminal contributions to the development of high-quality single-crystal GaN-based semiconductors and their PN-junction blue LEDs and lasers; Dr. Marc Baldo, who will receive the Jan Rajchman Prize for his outstanding contributions to the discovery of phosphorescent-OLED devices; Dr. Hoi-Sing Kwok, who will be awarded the Slottow-Owaki Prize for providing education and training in display technology to many students and professionals in the Asia region through the creation of a display research center; and Dr. Shigeo Mikoshiba, who will receive the Lewis & Beatrice Winner Award for his sustained exceptional contributions to SID for over 30 years.
By Jenny Donelan
Frontline Technology: RGB Color Patterning for AMOLED
TVs
RGB color patterning is
one of the key technologies for manufacturing
large-sized AMOLED TVs. Two competing approaches
are currently being used to realize RGB subpixels.
One requires a more difficult manufacturing process but
has better color purity; the other is easier to
manufacture but requires optimization in algorithms to
overcome some weaknesses.
By Jang Hyuk Kwon
Frontline Technology: Oxide TFTs for AMOLED TVs
AMOLED TVs using
promising oxide semiconductor and thin-film transistors
(TFTs) have been unveiled. This article will be
present the issues, challenges, and concerns of oxide
TFTs for AMOLED TVs.
By Jin-Seong Park
Frontline Technology: Zinc-Oxynitride TFTs: Toward a New
High-Mobility Low-Cost Thin-Film Semiconductor
Demands for
high-performance, low-cost, and low-energy-consumption
displays continue to drive the development of new
semiconductor materials. The success of the
metal-oxide semiconductor IGZO for display backplanes
has triggered even more activity, and zince oxynitride
is proposed as a possible solution.
By Yan Ye
Display Marketplace: AMOLED Production: Entering a
New Era?
Active-matrix organic
light-emitting-diode (AMOLED) displays have many
attractive features that have led companies to attempt
to manufacture them, but one country - Korea - currently
accounts for the vast majority of AMOLED-display
manufacturing capacity. Ambitions investment plans
in China, Japan, and Taiwan could change this balance
over the next several years.
By Paul Semenza
Enabling Technology: Flexing and Stretching
So you work in displays?
You may soon be working in flexible electronics too.
Author Jason Heikenfeld, associate professor with the
School of Electronic and Computing Systems at the
University of Cincinnati, looks at several of the most
interesting developments in flexible electronics.
By Jason C. Heikenfeld
Show Review: Alpha and Omega: Most Exciting Display
Technologies at CES
Giant TVs, ultra-high
definition, IGZO, and more were among the display
showstoppers at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in
Las Vegas.
By Steve Sechrist
First Look: Display Week 2013
Symposium Preview: Plan Ahead for the 2013 Symposium
The Information Display Measurements Standard (IDMS) represents years of work by many individuals in the display industry who form the International Committee for Display Metrology (ICDM). The standard would not exist in its present form, however, without the contributions of ICDM committee chair Joe Miseli and IDMS Editor Ed Kelley. Both Miseli and Kelley recently described the challenges and highlights of the process.
By Jenny Donelan
SID News
SID
Bay Area Chapter Hosts a Glimpse into the Future of
Displays
By Stephen P. Atwood
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