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SID 2006 Organizers Expect Record Attendance Thanks to Biggest, Best Symposium Program in Event's History

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 29 - Organizers of the Society for Information Display (SID) 2006 International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition (SID 2006) expect this year's event to be the biggest and best in the organization's 44-year history. SID 2006 will take place June 4-9 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.

SID 2006 officials are optimistic that overall attendance at SID 2006 will exceed 8,000 people, which would be a record for the Society's signature event. They cited several reasons for their confidence, including the show's location in the tech-savvy San Francisco Bay Area. But the most important factor they pointed to is the unprecedented number of oral and poster papers accepted for the Technical Symposium, the centerpiece of the six-day event that is the premier international gathering in the electronic information-display industry.

"This is the most impressive program I have seen in all the years that I have been attending SID," said Dr. Amal Ghosh of eMagin, who is the Program Chair for SID 2006. "The extraordinary number of papers is exceeded by their quality, and represents the tremendous increase in interest in the display industry worldwide."

A record 540 oral and poster papers have been accepted for presentation at SID 2006. This led conference organizers to maintain the four-day format for the Symposium that was hugely successful when initiated at the 2005 Symposium in Boston.

"We continue to see a rapid pace of innovation across all segments of the display industry," added Dr. Wei Chen of Apple Computer Inc., SID 2006's General Chair. "Our attendees will be dazzled by the latest advances in display technology that will be reported at SID 2006."

Here are some brief highlights of the SID 2006 Symposium program, broken down by technology segment:

OLEDS: With 13 of the 70 technical sessions at the Symposium, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) represent the largest single technology concentration at SID 2006. Sessions will focus on OLED device structures, active-matrix (AM)OLEDs, OLED manufacturing, materials, and blue-emitting OLEDs. Notable OLED papers will cover flexible AMOLEDs on stainless-steel substrates (one paper each by Samsung SDI and Universal Display Corp.), and white OLEDs (Novaled GmbH).

LCDs: Motion blur is a hot topic in the liquid-crystal-display (LCD) arena, and the subject will be explored in 2 sessions, with noteworthy papers from Philips, Fuji Photo Film and Samsung Electronics. Other areas of interest in LCDs include Vertical-Alignment (VA)-Mode LCD (notable papers from Samsung and Hannstar), LC Projection (Kent State and North Carolina State universities) and LCD TVs (Samsung and Hitachi).

Plasma Displays: There are 6 sessions devoted to plasma displays. Notable papers will be given in the areas of Plasma TV by Samsung and Pioneer; Plasma-Display Driving by the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo; Plasma-Display Cell Structures from Kyungpook National Univeristy in Korea; and Plasma-Display Protecting Layers by Samsung SDI.

Backlights: Environmental, cost and performance pressures have pushed the issue of backlights to the forefront of the display industry. Four sessions will explore the subject, with notable papers from Sharp Laboratories of America on Power Savings in Backlights, National Chiao Tung University of Taiwan on LED Backlights, and Innolux Display Corp. on Dual-Light Sources for Backlights in LCDs.

FEDs: In 2006, for the first time in the Symposium's history, no cathode-ray-tube (CRT) papers will be presented. In their stead are 3 field-emission-display (FED) sessions, focusing on the promise of this emerging technology. Papers of note will be given by Asahi Glass Co., Noritake Co., CEA Grenoble-LETI, Samsung SDI and Motorola.

These are a few of the major topics to be covered during the SID 2006 Symposium; other subjects of note include Projection Displays (5 sessions), Display Manufacturing (4 sessions), 3-D Displays (3 sessions), Flexible Displays (2 sessions), and Electronic Paper (2 sessions). The SID 2006 preliminary program can be viewed at www.sid.2006.org.

The 44th Annual SID International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition will take place Sun., June 4 through Fri., June 9 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. It is the premier international gathering of scientists, engineers, manufacturers, and users in the field of electronic-information displays. For exhibitor information, contact Danielle Rocco, Exhibit Sales Manager, at (212) 460-8090 ext. 218, e-mail: Danielle@sid.org. For registration information, contact Ralph Nadell, Registrar, (212) 460-8090 ext. 203, e-mail Ralph@sid.org. For press registration, contact Jessica Quandt, (212) 460-8090 ext. 213, e-mail: Jess@sid.org. Visit www.sid2006.org for more information.

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