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For Immediate Release

First International Display Manufacturing Conference to Reveal How Electronic Displays Are Made 

On a hill in Korea named for an American general, makers of displays from around the world will learn how to manufacture these essential components of the information age more cheaply and more reliably.

June 8, 2000 -- The first International Display Manufacturing Conference (IDMC) will be held September 5-7, 2000 at the Sheraton Walker Hill Hotel and Conference Center in Seoul, Korea. This international gathering of display engineers, manufacturers, and users is organized by the Korean Chapter of the Society for Information Display (SID), the Korean Display Society (KDS), the Korean Information Display Society (KIDS), the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Korea Research Foundation (KRF), the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF), and the Electronic Display Industrial Research Association of Korea (EDIRAK). EDIRAK and SEMI Korea will manage the associated exhibition, "FPD
Expo 2000." The official language of IDMC 2000 is English.

"This conference will be an important forum for everyone working in display manufacturing," said Sungkyoo Lim, IDMC Secretary General, "and it will be a big marketplace for the companies producing and manufacturing display materials, components, and equipment, as well as flat-panel displays for computer and TV applications."

The technical program will begin with two keynote addresses:

  • Future Prospects for Flat Panel Displays in Korea by John Koo, President and Vice Chairman of LG Electronics, one of the world's leading information display companies. 
  • Display Manufacturing: The Next Ten Years by Aris Silzars, President of SID and of Northlight Displays, and writer of a popular column in Information Display magazine. Silzars will challenge his audience by showing that advances in computer and graphic-controller technology are now outstripping display capabilities - which reverses the pattern that has held throughout the PC era. 

The remainder of the technical program will consist of about 100 technical papers, 40 of which will be invited from the world's leading practitioners. Among them are:

  • OLED (Sungtae Kim, LG Corporate Institute of Technology) 
  • Printed Field Emission Structures (Richard Tuck, PFE Ltd.) 
  • Nanotube FEDs (Jong Min Kim, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology) 
  • Poly-Si TFT-LCD Manufacturing (D. K. Kim, LG Philips LCD) 
  • Current and Future Technology of Low Temperature Poly-Si TFT-LCDs (Y. Oana, Toshiba Corp.) 
  • Active Matrix Display Layout Optimization for Sub-pixel Image Rendering (Candice Brown Elliott, Pentile Matrix Licensing Co.) 
  • TFT-LCDs for TV Application (J. H. Souk, Samsung Electronics)
  • Commercialization and Ramp-up of LCOS Microdisplays (Kenneth Werner, Nutmeg Consultants and Information Display magazine) 
  • Flat Panel Display Manufacturing Cost Comparisons (Joseph A. Castellano, President and CEO, Stanford Resources, Inc.) 
  • TFT-LCD Manufacturing Trends and Forecast (Ross Young, President and CEO, DisplaySearch) 

For additional information about the conference and registration, contact Sungkyoo Lim at limsk@ns.dankook.ac.kr or check the Web at http://tftlcd.kyunghee.ac.kr/idmc.

 The Society for Information Display is an international society devoted to the advancement of display technology, manufacturing, and applications, with headquarters at 31 East Julian Street, San Jose, California 95112. Website www.sid.org.

 

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