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Kodak, Samsung,
Optiva Win SID/Information Display
Display of the Year Gold Awards
Norwalk,
Connecticut, December 10, 2002 - The Secretariat for the SID/Information
Display Display of the Year Awards (DYA) Committee today
announced the winners of the 2002 awards. The awards, sponsored
by the Society for Information Display and Information
Display magazine, are major awards in the international
information display industry - the industry responsible for
designing and manufacturing the displays that give life to
television sets, notebook computers, desktop computer monitors,
cell phones, PDAs, DVD players, and many other office-based,
home-based, and portable electronic devices. The DYA winners are
selected by an international committee consisting of leading
members of the technical display community and distinguished
technology journalists, a combination that ensures the
committees deliberations are carried out with both technical
sophistication and a broad perspective.
This year the Display
of the Year Gold Award went to Eastman Kodak for its
AM550L organic light-emitting-diode (OLED) display. At a time
when the first OLED products to appear in consumer products are
simple monochrome or "area color" alphanumeric
displays, Kodak and manufacturing partner Sanyo are ramping up
volume manufacturing of this full-color, active-matrix,
video-capable OLED with vibrant, saturated colors. The AM550L,
which has a 2.16-inch (5.48-cm) diagonal and 521x218 pixels,
produces a bright image, consumes 450 mW of power (typical), and
weighs just 8 grams. It is intended for applications such as
cell phones, PDAs, digital still cameras, DVD players, and
automotive and industrial uses.
The Display of
the Year Silver Award went to Samsung Electronics for
its 40-inch wide-XGA TFT-LCD module. Seen in various forms for
several years, the "40-inch" became commercially
available during the last year, and thus eligible for a DYA. As
the first TFT-LCD module to break the 30-inch barrier, this
device demonstrated that LCDs could compete with PDPs in the
markets for public information displays and large-screen TV.
Larger prototypes have already been announced by Samsung and
rival LG.Philips Display.
For its 43- and
50-inch rear-projection HDTV monitors, Samsung Electronics
also won the Display Product of the Year Gold Award.
These are the first mainstream, rear-projection HDTVs using
Texas Instruments' DLP™ microdisplays. Samsung's
field-sequential color projection engine uses one microdisplay
for economy, and with initial prices beginning at less than
$4000, the company enters the market at a competitive price
point.
Sony
Corporation incorporated several new technologies into its
KF-60DX100 Grand Wega 60-inch rear-projection LCD HDTV to win
the Display Product of the Year Silver Award. These new
technologies include - but are not limited to - a 1.35-inch
wide-XGA (1366x768-pixel) high-temperature-polysilicon (HTPS)
LCD panel, a dot-line inversion drive scheme, and a three-panel
optical engine that features corner-to-corner high resolution
and a user-replaceable UHP lamp.
Optiva, Inc.
won the Display Material or Component of the Year Gold Award for
its Thin Crystal Film™ Polarizers, which represent a
fundamentally new way of making polarizers based on a
molecularly engineered nanomaterial. When applied to a glass or
plastic substrate, the company's TCF™ polarizing material
self-assembles into a supramolecular liquid-crystal structure.
The result is a polarizing film that is less than 1 micrometer
thick, which compares to 200 micrometers for a traditional
polarizer. The new polarizer is highly customizable, much
cheaper than traditional polarizers, and can be applied to the
inner sides of LCD substrates, protecting them from scratches
and abrasions, and thus creating more rugged LCD displays.
And DuPont
Holographics won the Display Material or Component of the
Year Silver Award for its holographic reflectors, which
inexpensively and dramatically improve the visibility of
portable, reflective liquid-crystal displays. The formal award
presentations will be made at the Awards Luncheon at the Society
for Information Display International Symposium, Seminar, and
Exhibition (SID 2003), to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, May
18-23, 2003.
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.
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