Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Information Display

Mid Atlantic Officers
Director: Amal Ghosh	aghosh@emagin.com
Chair: Ihor Wacyk	IWacyk@emagin.com
Vice Chair: Paul S. Kline	pkline@ci-lumen.com
Vice Chair: Butchi Reddy Vaddi	vaddibr@corning.com
Secretary: Ioniss Kymissis	johnkym@ee.columbia.edu
Treasurer: Qun Yan	fyan@us.panasonic.com
2003-2004 Newsletter (pdf) 2002-2003 Newsletter (pdf)

Speaker: Prof. Deng-Ke Yang, a well known scientist in liquid crystal physics and displays.
Topic: Bistable Cholesteric Reflective Displays
Date and Time: March 23, 7:00pm
Venue: Hilton Woodcliff Lake, Oaks Room, 200 Tice Blvd. Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677
Directions: http://www.hiltonwoodclifflake.com/directions/index.cfm

Please send an email to me if you plan to attend so that we have an idea of how many people to attend. We hope to see many members at this meeting, non-members are also welcome.

In order to make dinner arrangements, I need to know who will be attending. Please send me an email as soon as possible if you plan to attend.

Speaker: Barry Young, Senior VP and CFO, Display Research
Topic: Display Market Forecasting
Date: January 19th, 7:00 pm
Venue: Hilton Hotel, 650 Terrace Avenue, Hasbrouck Heights, NJ 07604 Tel: +1-201-288-6100 Fax: +1-201-288-4717
Directions: http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/hotels/directions.jhtml?ctyhocn=EWRHHHF

Meeting Dinner: Hilton Hotel ( Canterbury's) between 6:00 and 7:00 pm. Cost $20.00 (approx).

If possible, please send an email to me if you plan to attend so that we have an idea of how many people to expect.

Speaker: Barry Silverstein of Kodak
Topic: Electronic Cinema
Date: Feb. 9th
Venue: Lecture Hall in Woodward Hall, PACE University, 235 Elm Road, Briarcliff Manor, NY.
Directions: http://appserv.pace.edu/execute/page.cfm?doc_id=154#briar

March SIDMAC Meeting

Speaker: Larry Weber and Michael Pashley of Philips
Topic: Large area TVs: Plasma and Projection - presentations and panel discussion.
Date: March 16, 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Venue: Resnick Engineering Hall, Mohonk Avenue, SUNY, New Paltz, NY 12561
Meeting Dinner: 6pm at the Gilded Otter, 3 Main Street

The meeting will start with 2 presentations on competing technologies for the HDTV market. These will each try to make the case that their technology is a winner. This will be followed by a panel discussion chaired by Ravi Rao (SIDMAC President) giving you the chance to challenge the views expressed in the talks. Please join us and bring all your display prejudices with you to make it a lively evening!

Micro-display Projection Television - THE Big Screen Technology
Michael Pashley, Philips Research USA

I will give an overview of the technology options for micro-display projection television. The presentation will seek to make the case that this is and will be THE display technology for large screen TV. I will argue that picture quality, consumer needs and cost all lead to the same conclusion.

Dr. Michael Pashley is a Research Department Head at Philips Research USA in Briarcliff Manor, NY. From 2000 until the recent withdrawal of Philips from the micro-display business, he headed the research activities on the Philips LCOS micro-display technology.

*From Exit 18 of I87* turn left at the traffic light after toll booth. Turn left at the third traffic light onto South Manheim Boulevard (Rt. 32 South). Several campus entrances are on the right side of the road. See attached Campus map for more information. The Resnick Engineering Hall is circled in red.

April SIDMAC Meeting
Speaker: Kees van Zon of Philips
Topic: Video Processing for High-End TV- demonstrations will be included.
Date: April 13, 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Venue: Philips Research, Briarcliff Manor, NY

Meeting Dinner: Philips at 6pm
In order to make dinner arrangements at Philips, I need to know who will be attending. Please send me an email as soon as possible if you plan to attend.
Directions to Philips Research.

May SIDMAC Meeting
Speaker: Dr. M. Anandan, President and CTO, Organic Lighting Technology
Topic: OLEDs for LCD back lighting
Date: May 11th 2005, 6:00 to 9:00 PM
Venue: Torches on The Hudson, 90 Front Street, Newburgh, NY (845-568-0100)

OLED is the emerging technology as an emissive display. All the efforts are directed towards the development of OLED technology for main display application. No emphasis is laid on its immense potential as a backlight for LCD. This talk will focus on OLED's vast potential as a backlight for full color LCD, especially for cell phone LCDs. To be fair to attendees from non-OLED area, basics of OLED will be scanned. The current LED backlight employed in cell phone will be reviewed and compared with OLED backlight. OLED's inherent advantages to cell phone application will be stressed. Market potential for cell phone backlight will be given.

Speaker Biography
Dr. Munisamy Anandan is the President and CTO of Organic Lighting Technologies LLC, Austin, Texas, focusing on the development of Organic Light Emitting Diode backlight for full color cell phone LCD. Prior to forming the new company Anandan worked extensively in the following areas: (1) OLED full color Microdisplay with eMagin Corp., (2) plasma display with Bell Communications Research (3) Compact fluorescent lamp for consumer lighting with Matsushita Electric (4) FED with FED Corp (5) Fluorescent based LCD backlighting with Thomas Electronics (6) LCD with Bharath Electronics, India. He has numerous publications, patents and awards in these areas, including the R&D 100 Award in 1992.

Dr. Anandan served as Chair of Mid-Atlantic Chapter twice and served as the Director of the chapter from 2000-2002. Subsequently he served as Vice-President of Americas Region for two terms and is responsible for introducing various new programs in the region, including the recent 'Americas Conference on Display Engineering & Applications (ADEAC)', to enhance SID activity. He is currently serving as Secretary of SID. He received SID President's Certificate of commendation twice, one for the leadership in organizing the First SID/MAC OLED conference and the other for supporting New England chapter. Other SID activities include active role as a Chair of New Chapter Formation & Support, member in the Display System sub committee of SID Symposium for the past seven years, Associate Editor on plasma displays for three years, Guest Editor on LCD backlighting twice and seminar speaker on LCD backlighting for four years. He is a Co-Founder of SID India Chapter.

Dr. Anandan is a Member of SID and Senior Member of IEEE. He obtained his Ph.D from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India on 'Coplanar plasma display'.

Meeting Dinner: 6pm before the talk
After the presentation, SIDMAC's SERVICE AWARD for outstanding and sustained contribution to the chapter will be awarded to Dr. Anandan.
Please send me an email if you plan to attend so that we know the numbers for dinner.
Directions to Torches on The Hudson

SIDMAC 2005 Annual Event
The Annual Event this year will be at Corning in Corning NY. It will be a full day event and will include visiting the Corning Glass Museum and a talk on the use of glass in displays. We are also hoping to have a vineyard tour and wine tasting. Family members are welcome. We will try to coordinate travel to Corning. If there is sufficient demand, we will organize a bus from the NY City area up to Corning. The bus will depart the New York City area at about 6am and return by 10pm. In order to make this viable, we will need to have a minimum of 20 people sign up for the bus. Please complete the registration form and return it to me by May 13th if you plan to join us. We will determine if bus transportation is possible based on the responses received by May 13th.

November SIDMAC Meeting
Speaker: Kenneth I. Werner, Insight Media
Topic: Eliminating Motion Blur
Date: Nov. 9, 7:00pm
Venue: Pace University at Pleasantville, 861 Bedford Rd, Pleasantville, NY

At least since the time when the graphical user interface first became popular and rapid mouse movement caused the mouse cursor to "submarine"– or disappear from the screen until the mouse motion slowed down -motion blur has been an issue in LCDs.For years it was believed that the solution lay exclusively in speeding up the response time of the liquid-crystal cells.But motion blur continued to be objectionable even after response time became so short that blur should not have been visible.

We will bring the story up to date by reviewing the modern two-cause explanation of motion blur,and modern approaches to solving the problem:response-time compensation (overdriving),blinking backlights,dynamic backlights,black data insertion,gray data insertion,and frame-rate doubling.

Improvements in this area would be difficult to gauge without a reliable way to measure motion blur,so the development of moving picture response time(MPRT)and the test sets that implement it are an important part of our story.

Speaker Biography
Kenneth I. Werner is Senior Analyst for Insight Media, which provides display intelligence through newsletters, research reports, conferences, and consulting services to companies in the information display and related industries, and to companies using, integrating, and selling displays. He is the founder of Nutmeg Consultants, whose personnel and programs became part of Insight Media in 2005, and was the Editor-in-Chief of Information Display Magazine from 1987
to 2005. Currently, he is Editor-in-Chief of Insight Media’s Display Watch and the Society for Information Display’s Information Display Online.

Mr. Werner has become recognized as an authority on the display industry. He regularly addresses technical and trade organizations in North America, Europe, and Asia, and is routinely consulted by brokers, analysts, members of the international press corps, and companies entering or repositioning themselves in the industry. He speaks frequently with senior corporate and technology executives of large, mid-sized, and small display-related companies in Asia, Europe,
and North and South America, as well as government officials and academic researchers. At BRDisplay II (July 2004, Recife, Brazil), he served as a consultant to the working groups developing a national strategy for the growth of display-related industry in Brazil and wrote the introduction to their report.

Mr. Werner began his career as a semiconductor device design engineer for RCA. He holds a B.A. in physics from Rutgers University and an M.S. in solid-state physics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has taken graduate management courses at the University of Connecticut. He has been an active participant in the display industry since 1987.

In the last few years Mr. Werner has given keynote presentations at MicroDisplay 2001 (Westminster, Colorado), LCD/PDP International 2001 (Yokohama, Japan), and InfoDisplay VI (October 2003, Fortaleza, Brazil), and invited presentations at the winter Consumer Electronics Show 2002 (Las Vegas, Nevada), the International Display Manufacturing Conference 2002 (Seoul, Korea), the SID Korea Chapter Seminars (August 2002, Seoul, Korea), the Liquid Crystal Institute (November 2002, Kent, Ohio), and BRDisplay I (April 2004, Campinas, Brazil). His most recent invited paper was “Current Strategies for Eliminating Motion Blur in LCD Television,” presented at IMID 2005 in Seoul, Korea. He was one of the referees for the Display Invention Competition held in August 2003 in Korolev, Russia, and he moderated the evening panel sessions at ASID 2004 (Nanjing, China) and ADEAC 2004 (Fort Worth, Texas).

Mr. Werner is a founding partner of Chorus Consulting, a government-registered Korean company dedicated to forging mutually productive technology and business relationships among Asian, American, and European display-related companies. He is a member of the Society for Information Display (SID) and IEEE, and is Chairman of the Advisory Board for the award-winning IEEE Circuits & Devices magazine.

Meeting Dinner: 6:00PM at Pace Univ. Cafeteria
In order to make dinner arrangements, I need to know who will be attending.
Please send me an email as soon as possible if you plan to attend.

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