NEC LCD Technology has come at SID 2008 with its latest technologies among which it presented the heart display modules, based on low-temperature polysilicon color TFT LCD technology.

The prototype is a flexible display that uses 2 half-circular arcs and two straight lines, with a width of 4 cm, height of 3.6 cm, and 146 pixels per inch pixel pitch, allowing for a 2 mm bezel.

This type of non-rectangular LCD has applicability in car’s speedometers and tachometers.

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At SID Display Week 2008, Microsivion presented its advanced UltraMiniature PicoP Display Engine, which introduced in cell phones is capable to project full-color images.
Among the uses of this advanced engine are cell phone projection, special eyeglasses and projection displays in cars. The large applicability is permitted by the modular and flexible architecture.

The mobile device eyewear will allow the user:
• Give a speech while information is streamed to your eyeglasses in real time
• Present to a crowd with your notes secretly stowed away in your eye glasses
• Extend your everyday computing environment to include your eyewear display
• Walk down the street, seeing your favorite friends show up “on screen” 2 blocks and 1 cafe away
• Receive turn by turn directions as you walk toward your destination
• Review messages while on the go
• Create your personal big screen experience from mobile TV and video (occluded or escape mode)
• See building schematics and locations of others (especially useful for security or firefighters)
• View virtual recipes while cooking without losing your rhythm

After the integration into cars, this technology would display information in front of the driver for more convenience and safety.
The prototypes demonstrated included the new SHOW standalone pico projector for plug-and-play integration with mobile devices ranging from cell phones to gaming devices.

SD3000 uses a seethrough, full-color and wearable display technology platform with clear readability in bright light environments.
Next comes the full-color vehicle head-up display with high contrast and high bright levels, also based on the PicoP technology.

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One of the latest and interesting display innovations presented at SID Display Week 2008 is this Gorilla Glass developed by Corning, specialty glass and ceramics leader.
The optically pure thin-sheet glass was designed for customer applications that require high strength such as LCD display covers, and has durable, scratch-resistant characteristics for personal electronic devices, especially touch-sensitive displays.

“What sets Gorilla glass apart is its enhanced durability,” declared Corning’s Gorilla glass program manager James E. Hollis. “This is especially important for handheld devices that are routinely thrown around by consumers. A protective cover made from Corning Gorilla glass is capable of providing the best protection for LCD screens versus any other glass in the marketplace today.”

Corning Gorilla glass can be found in several thicknesses like 0.7 mm, up to 2 mm. It is made from flexible alumino-silicate glass, using the company’s fusion draw technology.

At SID 2008, LG was present with its LCD technology innovations in the shape of elliptical and circular-shaped displays.
The world’s largest elliptical and circular displays coming from LG measure 6 inches and 1.4 inches in diameter, respectively, making a great alternative for standard models existent on the market.

LG’s elliptical LCD measures 78.8 x 131.4 mm, while the circular one measures 35.5 mm in diameter, both displaying 262K colors at 160 degree viewing angle.

Among the potential applications for such display designs are digital photo frames, instrument panels for automobile, home gadgets, cell phones, watches and even gaming devices.

<-120x240 Vertical Banner - left->To meet the high requirements from the display industry, such as advanced performance, affordability, low production costs and larger sizes, DuPont Displays has presented a new solution at the Society for Information Display’s International Symposium which took place in Los Angeles between May 18-23.

“It’s our goal at DuPont Displays to continue to introduce innovative and sustainable solutions that enable displays manufacturers to better keep pace with the industry challenges of providing larger displays with better resolution at lower costs,” declared E. James Prendergast, vice president and chief technology officer, DuPont Electronic & Communication Technologies. “I’m pleased to announce that this year we have on exhibit both new market-ready offerings and the next generation of many of our proven technologies that contribute significantly to achieving further performance and cost benefits across displays technologies.”

The company has presented new LCD, OLED, PDP and film technologies, the latter explained by the DuPont Teijin Films’ engineers.
The LCD technologies exposed included DuPont Optilon Thermal Color Filter System, a new digital printing technology useful for color filter manufacturing. It is designed to eliminate photo masks and liquid chemicals, and it will be available in 2009.

DuPont Optilon Advanced Composite Reflectors come to be used in LCD backlights targeting the improvement of the LCD display performance and in the same time reducing cost and power consumption.
The films are made from microfiber nonwoven composite materials, featuring high reflectivity, high light diffusivity and excellent UV stability.

DuPont Vertak Bonding Technology is meant to increase display’s readability up to 400%, becoming 300% more resistant at scratches and impacts. Its availability is established for later this year.

Solution Process AMOLED Technology based on solution printed OLED technology, is designed to lower AMOLED manufacturing costs and has several OLED materials which can be printed and coated at high speed using an innovative process.

To deliver high resolution and improved image quality for large format via full HD plasma TVs, the company came out with the Fodel Photoimageable Thick-Film Paste, a technology bringing better printability, wider process latitude, using a black pigment system based on lower cost metals, instead of ruthenium pyrochlore-based black pigments.

DuPont Transfer Materials Technology is a dry film-based high precision patterning technology for substrates metallization which permits imaging of conductor lines and spaces down to a resolution of 20 microns.

PET Films for Plastic Electronic Applications film technologies are strong and flexible with excellent resistance to heat, abrasion, chemicals and moisture, while making a great solution for optical coatings and thermally stabilized grades.
In addition to PET films release DuPont presented also the Teonex PEN Film destined for demanding flexible display applications including high performance touch screens, flexible OLEDs, e-paper, high-barrier flexible substrates, flexible microelectronics and TFTs.