**Meeting Notice**
UK/IRL Chapter Online Seminar
The next generation display technologies, including Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and 3D displays, are poised to revolutionize various industries such as entertainment, healthcare, communication, and manufacturing. In this talk, I will present our latest research on exploring Computer-Generated Holography (CGH) as a potential next generation 3D display technology. I will discuss the key challenges in holographic 3D displays that need to be addressed to meet the requirements of the human visual system. Our novel algorithmic methods, fueled by deep learning techniques, offer promising solutions for improving resolution, brightness, and 3D characteristics in CGH-generated images. Throughout my presentation, I will demonstrate how our algorithms can form a basis for new display designs that meet human visual system's resolution capabilities in a perceptually realistic way. By the end of this talk, attendees will have gained insights into the future of holographic 3D displays and their potential impact on various industries.
Wednesday April 10th 7pm-8pm GMT
Speaker:
Prof Kaan Askit
Kaan Akşit is an associate professor of computational light in the Computer Science department at University College London in the United Kingdom, where Kaan also leads the Computational Light Laboratory. Kaan received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Koç University, Türkiye*, in 2014. His M.Sc. degree is in electrical power engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in 2010. Kaan obtained his B.S. in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Türkiye, in 2007. Kaan researches the intersection of light and computation, including computational approaches in imaging, graphics, fabrication, and displays. Kaan’s research works are widely known among the optics and graphics community for his contributions to display technologies dedicated to 3D, virtual reality, and augmented reality. He worked as a research intern in Philips Research, the Netherlands, and Disney Research, Switzerland, in 2009 and 2013, respectively. In addition, he was a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA, the USA, between 2014 and 2020. Over the years, Kaan’s research works has been recognized with numerous awards from various highly respected venues and institutions including ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE VR and ISMAR and Optica.
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SID UK and Ireland Chapter 2024 meeting and AGM
Thursday March 14th
SID UK & Ireland hosted an in-person one day meeting on novel display technologies and display applications in the automotive industry.
The meeting was at the Institute of Physics in London, close to Kings Cross St Pancras Station. The meeting created a perfect opportunity to network in person with leaders in the field.
Speakers included: ARRIVAL EV, FlexEnable, VividQ, Microsoft, Kubos Semiconductors, UltraLeap, Swave Photonics, BrightView Technologies, Pro-Lite and PragmatIC.
A video of the event can be found here. Thanks to Dominic Murphy for the video footage (dominic@dofilm.org +44 7715 639066).
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Questions? Contact: sid.ukandireland@gmail.com
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2023 SID Ben Sturgeon award, is Sarabjot Kaur. Sarabjot’s scientific career has centred on liquid crystal materials and devices, and the award is made for her contribution to two fields of LC science in particular. The first is her work on tunable optical devices, directed toward applications in variable power contact lenses. Her contributions in that field include the introduction of a new operating mode for those devices which offers a polarization-independent off state – markedly improving the clarity and user experience of the devices, and her demonstration of devices using graphene electrodes which overcome the shortcomings of ITO electrodes by offering a flexible transparent layer which can be coated under mild conditions. In addition, Sarabjot made important contributions to the design of these devices, including aspects from optical performance and manufacturing tolerances to power coupling.
A further area in which Sarabjot has made important contributions, is that of bent core LC systems where she extended our understanding of the phase behaviour, elastic constants, dielectric properties and flexoelectric constants of a range of materials. Understanding of these properties defines the scope for the challenging target of incorporating bent core LCs in device applications.
The UK chapter were unanimous in confirming the award to Sarabjot, and offer their congratulations to her.
The Ben Sturgeon award is presented annually by the UK SID chapter, for significant achievements in display science and technology. The award is named in memory of Dr Bennett Sturgeon, who as Development Director of Merck at Poole led the manufacturing process development and commercialisation of the cyanobiphenyl liquid crystals and a number of other families of LC compounds and mixtures, laying the foundation for the first successful generations of liquid crystal displays in consumer and professional products.
***Link to SID's Webinar archive - note webinars are only published with speaker's permission.***
Past Meetings:
UK/IRL in-person meeting and AGM, 14th March 2024
"Holographic displays for AR" - Dr Ed Buckley, 13th February 2024
"Achieving Energy Efficiency in Red microLEDs for the next generation of microLED Displays" - Caroline O'Brien, Webinar, 16th January 2024
"Building the future of Semiconductor Lighting with Surface Emitting SLEDs" - Dr Juan Morales, Webinar, 6th December 2023
"Emissive displays using Organic Thin-Film Transistor Technology" - Dr Simon Ogier, Webinar, 7th November 2023
"Development of the first wireless dynamic focus liquid crystal contact lenses" - Dr James Bailey, Webinar, 25th October 2023
"Can we tame the light waves?" - Prof Mohsen Rahmani, Webinar, 19th September 2023
"Waveguides for Augmented Reality Displays" - Dr Andreas Georgiou, Webinar, 12th July 2023
"Flexible LC optics and displays for curved and biaxially formed active surfaces" - Dr Paul Cain, FlexEnable, Webinar, 28th June 2023
"Perovskites for In-Pixel Colour Conversion" - Dr Bernard Wenger, Helio Display Materials, Webinar, 12th April 2023
2022 SID session at ITC 2022, University of Surrey, Guildford, 15th Sept 2022
2020 SID session at InnoLAE 2020, Wellcome Genome Camplus, Cambridge, 21st Jan 2020
"Emerging technologies for displays" - Programme
2019 AGM and 1-Day Technical Meeting, CSA Catapult Innovation Centre, Newport, Wednesday 20th November 2019,
"Compound Semiconductors for Display Applicaitons" - Programme
2018 AGM and Evening Technical Meeting, UCL, 28th Nov 2018.
"Integrated Photonics and Electronics for Displays" - Programme
2018 LCD 50th Anniversary Meeting, Royal Academy of Engineering, 7th June 2018
Programme Report Review Article in "Liquid Crystals Today"
2017 1-day Technical Meeting, Flexenable, 24th October 2017
"Emerging Display Technologies" - Programme
2017 - Free Technical Meeting, BBC R+D, 27th Feb 2017
"HDR and the Future of TV" - Programme
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UK and Ireland Chapter Committee List
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Chair
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Prof Tim Wilkinson
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tdw13@cam.ac.uk
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Vice Chair
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Secretary
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Dr Peter Wyatt
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peter.wyatt@merckgroup.com
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Treasurer
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Paul Lacey
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laceypaul@aol.com
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Communications Officer
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Tim Large
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tlarge@outlook.com
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Membership Secretary
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Jiaqi Liu
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jl2186@cam.ac.uk
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SID 50th Anniversary
As part of the UK & Ireland Chapter's response to the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the Society for Information Display, two members have written articles:
UK Contributions to LCD Technology
We are indebted to Professor Peter Raynes, a pivotal figure in the development of LCD technology in the UK for his recollections of key moments of discovery.
Notes on the Development of the UKI Chapter
We also thank Dr John Mansell, an active committee member of the UK & Ireland chapter for his account of its founding.