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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.

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.

During May 18 and May 23, at the Los Angeles Convention Center, took place the international meeting of scientists, engineers, manufacturers and users that work or are interested in electronic information displays and display innovations.
Display Week 2008 hosted the 2008 Display of the Year Awards where the Society for Information Display awarded 6 products that proved during 2007, to meet the highest standards of technical innovation and commercial significance.



"Collectively, the 2008 award recipients have excelled at transitioning innovative products and technologies from 'hot' buzzword to 'cool' reality,” declared Dick McCartney, Chair of SID's Display of the Year Awards Committee. “The significant number of nominations we received around the world speaks to the mounting prestige associated with these accolades across the global display community. On behalf of SID, I would like to truly commend this year's award recipients' ongoing commitment to innovation and to shaping the future of today's display arena."



The winners are:

Display Component of the Year

Gold Award: Luminus Devices PhlatLight LED Backlight Unit, which was the Silver Award winner for the previous year, and now its technology for LCD TVs requiring fewer LEDs, reduces significantly the cost and complexity of LED backlighting for large-screen TVs, enhancing brightness and color uniformity, besides enabling thinner LCD TV design thanks to the illuminated edges.

Silver Award: FUJIFILM Corp. WV-EA Film, which solves the problem of TN-mode LCDs that don’t have enough viewing-angle performance compared to other LCD modes. The Wide View film enhances the viewing-angle performance and allows users watch clear images at oblique angles, 160 degrees in both angles at 10:1. More than that, it contributes in impressive film thickness uniformity, together with the airflow control technology and a new additive that makes film thickness uniformity compatible with wide viewing-angle performance.



Display Device of the Year

Gold Award: Sony Corp. XEL-1 OLED TV, the world’s first OLED TV measuring 11 inches in diagonal and 3 mm thin, capable of delivering a high contrast, and a raspid response time and best color reproduction.

Silver Award: Samsung SDI 2.2-inch QVGA AMOLED Display, world’s thinnest 2.2-inch AMOLED model at 0.52 mm thickness, about the size of a credit card. It has a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels, 100& color gamut, 262K colors, 10,000:1 contrast ratio, featuring low-temperature polysilicon technology and 1,000x faster response time compared with the existent TFT LCDs.



Display Application of the Year

Gold Award: Apple Inc., iPhone, maybe the world’s most popular Smartphone with multi-touch display, accelerometer for automatic portrait/landscape switching, proximity sensor to detect turn off the display and save power when the user lifts the handset to the ear, and ambient light sensor that adjusts the brightness automatically depending on the light environment.

Silver Award: RealD Stereoscopic 3D Cinema Technology that uses a single projector and an active filter to switch between 2 different types of polarization in front of the projection lens, lading to smaller and lighter weight passive glasses, and easy upgrade from stereo presentation without the need to buy a new projector.