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For Immediate Release
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Do OLEDs Have a
Chance?
The question that
many companies are betting on will be answered at the May 21st
evening panel at SID 2002 in Boston.
April 9, 2002 – One
compelling part of the Society for Information Display’s
multifaceted Annual Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition when it
returns to Boston’s Hynes Convention Center from May 19 to 24
will be the Tuesday evening panel. The panel’s experts will
attempt to answer a new-technology question that is bedeviling
many people in the display and electronics-products industries.
The panel is just one part of the SID Symposium, which is
recognized as the international display industry’s leading
event, and incorporates the largest display show held in North
America.
The panel is OLEDs versus AMLCDs:
Do OLEDs have a chance? Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)
are an exciting technology – and the only one that’s a
serious candidate for challenging active-matrix liquid-crystal
displays (AMLCDs) on their own turf. But OLEDs are in a very
early stage of commercialization, and it is not clear to what
extent, and in what applications, OLEDs can be successful
competitors for AMLCDs.
The question is not academic:
Small, innovative companies and some of the world’s largest
corporations are making large bets on the answer. The SID 2002
panel of experts will help them set the odds. The panel consists
of moderator Paul Drzaic (Alien Technology) and panelists Jun
Souk (Samsung), Michael Hack (UDC), Roger Stewart (Alien
Technology), Fan Luo (Unipac Optoelectronics), and Kai Schleupen
(IBM Watson Research Center).
Display Week will kick off with
half-day short courses on Sunday May 19 and a program of
90-minute seminars on Monday May 20 and Friday May 24. A rich
multi-track menu of technical symposium papers, vendor exhibits,
application tutorials, and special events will be held from
Tuesday May 21 to Thursday May 23. The technical sessions, which
will contain over 300 papers, will be anchored with 33 invited
papers.
At the Wednesday luncheon, the
Seventh Annual SID/Information Display Display of the Year
Awards will be presented. The winners of this year’s Gold
Awards are Rainbow Displays’ large tiled LCD display, Minolta’s
DiMAGE 7 digital still camera with microdisplay viewfinder, and
Alien Technology’s fluidic self-assembly process. The luncheon
speaker will be Brian Wandell of Stanford University, whose
topic will be “Computational Neuroimaging: Measuring the Mind.”
For SID 2002 registration and
hotel information, call Mark Goldfarb, Palisades Convention
Management, 411 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10003.
Phone (212) 460-8090, ext. 202; fax (212) 460-5460; e-mail mgoldfarb@pcm411.com,
or log onto www.sid.org.
The Society for Information
Display is an international society devoted to the advancement
of display technology, manufacturing, and applications, with
headquarters at 610 South Second Street, San Jose, California
95112; website www.sid.org.
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Calendar editors, please
note: The Society for Information Display’s 2002
International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition (SID
2002) will take place May 19-24 at the John B. Hynes
Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston,
Massachusetts. For registration information contact Mark
Goldfarb, Palisades Convention Management, 411 Lafayette
Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10003. Phone (212)
460-8090, ext. 202; fax (212) 460-5460; e-mail mgoldfarb@pcm411.com,
or log onto www.sid.org.
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