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SID and Information
Display Announce
Display of the Year Awards
Prestigious Awards to be Presented on June 6
at SID Symposium
in San Jose
to eMagin, InViso, DigiLens, Ise, Sharp/SEL, and Toppan
San Jose, California, December
13, 2000 – The Society
for Information Display (SID) and Information Display
magazine have announced the winners of the 2000 Display of the
Year Awards, which will be presented June 6, 2001 at the Awards
Luncheon of the big SID Symposium and Exhibition in San Jose,
California.
The winners were selected by an
international committee of distinguished display technologists
and technology journalists in a four-month process of
nominations and voting. Awards are made in three categories, and
there is a gold and silver award in each category.
In the Display of the Year
category, which honors developments in display technology, the
Gold Award went to eMagin Corp. (East Fishkill, New York)
for its OLED-on-Silicon microdisplay, which uniquely combines
two of the industry’s most exciting technologies: organic
light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and display-on-silicon
microdisplays. The Silver Award went to Ise Electronics Corp.
(Ise, Mie, Japan) for its carbon-nanotube (CNT) FED
high-brightness lighting element – the first commercial
product to use CNT field-emission technology.
In the Display Product of the
Year category, which honors products that incorporate
displays in ways that enhance or make possible the product’s
appeal, performance, and utility, the Gold Award went to inViso
(Sunnyvale, California) for incorporating its OptiScape II LCOS
microdisplay module into a product called the eCase, a hand-held
viewer that can be synchronized with a PC, allowing the user to
carry documents while on the go and to view them at
approximately the same resolution and color depth as on a
desktop monitor. The Silver Award went to Sharp Corp.
(Osaka, Japan) and Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
(Kanagawa, Japan) for Sharp’s LC-R60HDU 60-inch
high-definition rear-projection video monitor, the first
commercial product using LCD imagers with thin-film transistors
made from continuous-grain silicon (CGS). The monitor presents
SXGA images with the very high luminance of 1000 cd/m2
and a contrast ratio of 400:1.
The Display Material or
Component of the Year category honors materials or
components that are used in displays or display systems. The
Gold Award in this category went to DigiLens (Sunnyvale,
California) for its Application-Specific Integrated Filter (ASIF™),
which applies a new electrically switchable Bragg grating
technology to make a solid-state replacement for the mechanical
color wheel that is used to obtain full color from a one-panel
projection display. The Silver Award went to Toppan Printing
Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) for its EBU-CF matrix color filter
that features new pigments and dispersing parameters matched to
new phosphor specifications for the backlight that is used with
the filter. This result is the first color filter that allows
LCD TV sets and computer monitors to render colors as well as
their CRT-based competitors. The filter is the first to comply
with European Broadcasting Union (EBU) color-reproduction
standards.
The Society for Information
Display is the premier international non-profit society devoted
to the advancement of display technology, manufacturing, and
applications, with international headquarters at 31 East Julian
Street, San Jose, California 95112 U.S.A. Website www.sid.org.
Information Display
is the leading magazine for the international display industry.
It has circulation in the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
E-mail dmecca@sid.org.
