Dr. Louis D. Silverstein, a Fellow of the Society for Information Display, has died at age 61.  Silverstein was a highly influential proponent of the application of fundamental vision science, and especially color science, to the design and evaluation of electronic displays. Silverstein published over 130 journal articles, book chapters, technical papers, and technical reports and was awarded over 30 patents on advanced display technology. Silverstein was the recipient of numerous scientific and technical awards including the Alexander C. Williams Jr. Award from the Human Factors Society in 1983, the Honeywell Corporate Technical Achievement Award in 1989, a Fellow Award from the SID in 1997, a Special Recognition Award from the SID in 2004, the MacBeth Award from the Inter-Society Color Council in 2004, and the Otto Schade Prize in 2008, one of the SID’s highest...

Tokyo, Japan; April 2, 2012. Kyocera Corporation has acquired LCD manufacturer Optrex Corporation to form Kyocera Display Corporation.

Kyocera offers a wide range of active-matrix TFT LCD panels in sizes from 3.5 to 12.1 inches diagonal and resolutions from QVGA to SVGA. Optrex, founded in 1976, has been focused on small and medium size LCDs in the automotive and industrial market sectors, offering a range of active matrix TFT and monochrome graphic and character LCDs.

The company's acquisition of Optrex America in Plymouth, MI, USA (now Kyocera Display America, Inc.), as well its acquisition of Optrex Europe in Babenhausen, Germany (now Kyocera Display Europe GmbH), will enable Kyocera to expand its presence in the automotive and industrial LCD markets in the Americas and Europe. The acquisition of Optrex will also enable Kyocera to complement its...

El Segundo, CA; March 21, 2012. According to IHS iSuppli Display Materials & Systems at information and analytics provider IHS, although some facilities operated by liquid-crystal display (LCD) panel and component suppliers were impacted by the Japanese earthquake of 2011, it's apparent one year later that the overall effect of the catastrophe on the market was minor, due to the country's limited presence in the display business as well as a serendipitous overhang of inventory.

"A decline in a major country's market share and a buildup in excess inventory normally are regarded as unfavorable developments for a technology market," said Sweta Dash, director of LCD research at IHS. "However, in the LCD market of 2011, Japan's limited presence in the global supply chain—combined with excess stockpiles in the channel—helped soften the blow of the manufacturing disruptions...

New York, NY; February 13, 2012. Solar-Tectic LLC reports that it has been granted a world-wide exclusive license for a method of manufacturing single-crystal thin films on ordinary glass over a large area for photovoltaic and display applications.

The method stems from a Dartmouth College-sponsored research agreement with Solar-Tectic, initially inspired by a related technology disclosed by the late Dr. Praveen Chaudhari, renowned materials scientist and winner of the National Medal of Technology.

Dartmouth researchers at the Thayer School of Engineering invented this technology, which allows for single-crystal thin-films (composed of Si, Ge, GaAs, CdTe, CIGS, etc) to be monolithically fabricated on large-area amorphous substrates such as ordinary glass, at a cost that, according to Solar-Tectic, should be orders of magnitude lower than the price of manufacturing crystalline silicon solar cells (or c-Si).

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At Display Week 2012, the Society for Information Display is providing a new forum for live demonstrations of emerging information display technologies and related areas. This new exhibit platform is called the “Innovation Zone” (I-Zone) and will appear in the main Exhibit Hall, under the sponsorship of E Ink Holdings, on June 5-6 in the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

"Display Week has always been the best place for companies to exhibit their display products," says Jerzy Kanicki, Chairman of SID's I-Zone Committee. "The missing piece has been a platform concentrated in one area for small companies, labs, institutes, and other research entities with limited funding to exhibit the very newest display technology." The I-Zone will allow researchers to demonstrate their prototypes or other hardware demo units for two days free of charge at the premier display exhibition in North America. This new platform will also enable attendees to view best-in-class emerging information...

In November, Dupont said that it had signed a licensing agreement for its proprietary solution-based printing technology to be used by a leading Asian manufacturer to make large AMOLED televisions. At press time, DuPont was – at the manufacturer's request -- not at liberty to reveal the name of the manufacturer. Since Asian TV makers with a vested interest in OLEDs can be counted on the fingers of one hand, the pool of possible partners is small indeed, with online speculation leaning in the direction of Samsung or LG. Nothing is certain until the partnership is made public, which, according to Bill Feehery, Global Business Director for Dupont, will definitely happen on an as-yet undisclosed date.

DuPont's technology is of particular interest because it allows the OLED materials to be spray-printed on a backplane using a superfast multinozzle technique. The printer, developed by DuPoint in conjunction with Dai Nippon Screen,...

Kyocera Corporation has announced that it has completed a share transfer agreement with three investment funds operated by Japan Industrial Partners, Inc. to acquire all shares of Optrex Corporation — a specialized manufacturer of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and related products — in order to further strengthen and expand its LCD and touchscreen panel businesses. Effective February 1, 2012, Optrex will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Kyocera Corporation.

Kyocera's corporate Thin Film Components Group develops, manufactures, and markets small- and medium-sized LCDs for industrial applications worldwide. Since 2010, Kyocera has been expanding its capacitive touchscreen panel business with an emphasis on features such as thinness, strength, and waterproof functionality for use in smartphones.

Optrex manufactures LCDs for automotive applications and has...