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LG.Philips LCD,
Mitsubishi, and UDC/PPG Win SID and ID Display of the Year Gold
Awards
Norwalk,
Connecticut, December 10, 2003 – The Secretariat for the SID
and Information Display Display of the Year Awards (DYA)
Committee today announced the winners of the 2003 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,
stadium displays, point-of-sale terminals, cell phones, PDAs,
and many other 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 committee’s
deliberations are carried out with both technical sophistication
and a broad perspective.
This year’s Display
of the Year Gold Award goes to LG.Philips LCD for its
20.1-inch UXGA TFT-LCD panel with copper bus lines. As
active-matrix liquid-crystal displays (AMLCDs) get larger, the
high resistivity of aluminum alloy bus lines results in flicker
and non-uniform images across the panel. Increasing the width of
the lines reduces the resistance but worsens aperture ratio,
which reduces brightness or increases power consumption. Copper
is a much better conductor than aluminum alloy, but copper can
be a contaminant for downstream processes.
In its 20.1-inch
UXGA AMLCD, LG.Philips LCD has developed a way of using copper
bus lines that does not affect downstream processes; in
addition, the copper process results in one less deposition step
and two fewer etch steps. The copper-bus display’s flicker is
25 dB down, and it has a luminance of 250 nits with power
consumption of less than 30W.
The Display of
the Year Silver Award goes to Hitachi Ltd. for its
polysilicon-TFT displays made with a low-temperature process on
730x920-mm glass substrates. By developing a low-temperature
(450EC) process for making polysilicon TFT-LCDs, which
eliminates the need for pre-annealing the glass substrate,
Hitachi Ltd. has made it possible to produce relatively low-cost
polysilicon displays on relatively large glass substrates.
The company is
currently manufacturing two small, full-color, low-power TFT-LCD
displays using the process. Hitachi says the process should be
capable of fabricating LCD and OLED panels up to 20 inches on
the diagonal on glass substrates without pre-annealing.
For its
ultra-thin, single-DMD™, XGA rear-projection monitor, Mitsubishi
Electric Corporation wins the Display Product of the Year
Gold Award. With its tour de force optical system, the
LVP-60XT20 (VS-60XT20U outside of Japan) provides a 60-inch
display in a package only 10.2 inches deep. This allows
rear-projection monitors to be considered as direct alternatives
to flat panels in many public information and advertising
applications.
Eastman Kodak
integrated the AM550L full-color OLED display it makes with
Sanyo (and which won the Display of the Year Gold Award last
year) into the Kodak EasyShare LS633 digital still camera to win
the Display Product of the Year Silver Award. The LS633
is the first consumer product ever to incorporate a full-color
active-matrix OLED display.
Universal
Display Corp. and PPG win the Display Material or
Component of the Year Gold Award for a new generation of red
and green phosphorescent OLED materials and device structures
with three to four times the efficiency of conventional
fluorescent materials. The phosphorescent materials have
permitted Samsung SDI to build the first prototype OLED
cell-phone display that is more efficient than an equivalent
AMLCD.
And NXT
wins the Display Material or Component of the Year Silver
Award for its SoundVu® Distributed Mode Loudspeaker (DML)
technology, in which actuators on the periphery of a panel turn
the entire panel into a speaker that produces high-quality,
stereo sound. The apparent source of the sound can be made to
coincide with the location of the image that is
"originating" the sound, so sound-vision
synchronicity, which has been an important part of commercial
cinema since the 1940s, can now be incorporated in desktop and
laptop PCs, and in flat-panel TVs. The technology is being used
by NEC, Sharp, and others.
The formal award
presentations will be made at the Society for Information
Display International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition (SID
2004), to be held in Seattle, Washington, May 23-28, 2004.
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
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