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SID and Information
Display
Announce 2001 Display of the Year Awards
These Prestigious
Industry Awards are to be Presented on May 22 at the SID
Symposium in Boston to Rainbow, Minolta, Alien, IBM, and MOXTEK
San Jose, California, December
11, 2001 – The Society for Information Display (SID) and Information
Display magazine have announced the winners of the 2001
Display of the Year Awards, which will be presented May 22, 2002
at the Awards Luncheon of the annual SID Symposium and
Exhibition in Boston, Massachusetts.
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 normally 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 Rainbow Displays (Endicott, New York)
for its Model 3750 37.5-inch AMLCD panel, which seamlessly –
invisibly – tiles three 21.4-inch AMLCDs in a one-by-three
array. Seamless tiling has proven to be surprisingly difficult;
Rainbow is the first company to successfully implement the
technology in a commercial product. The Silver Award went to IBM
Research Laboratories (Yorktown Heights, New York, and
Yamato, Japan) for its Model T220 9.2-megapixel AMLCD –
3840x2400 addressable pixels on a 22.2-inch-diagonal screen for
a pixel density of 204 ppi (80 pixels/cm). The T220 is the
product of years of research by IBM exploring the technology and
benefits of LCDs with nearly photographic quality.
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 Minolta
(Osaka, Japan) for pioneering the use of a
liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCoS) microdisplay as the viewfinder
in a digital still camera, replacing the optical viewfinder that
has not changed in principle since its use on 35-mm film cameras
of the 1930s. The Committee chose not to present a Silver Award
this year.
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 Alien Technology
(Morgan Hill, California) for its Fluidic Self-Assembly (FSA)
process that automatically places small encapsulated integrated
circuits called NanoBlocks™ into matching depressions in a
display’s backplane. This innovative approach to packaging
display (and other) electronics has the potential for making
very rugged and inexpensive devices. The Silver Award went to MOXTEK
(Orem, Utah) for its ProFlux™ polarizer, which is made of a
very-fine-pitch wire grid. The wire-grid polarizer tolerates the
high light intensities and temperatures found in projectors, and
is capable of contrast ratios much higher than those produced by
conventional polarizing beam splitters.
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 610 South
Second 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
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