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Liquid-Crystal Technology, OLEDs
Highlight Program for Display Week 2007

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 1 - Conference organizers for Display Week 2007: The Society for Information Display (SID) International Symposium, Seminar & Exhibition have finalized this year's Symposium program, selecting the best papers from more than 700 submissions from the academic and research sectors of the display world. Display Week 2007 will take place May 20-25th, 2007 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California, U.S.A.

The Symposium represents the heart of Display Week each year, and this year comprises 68 sessions spread across four days, beginning on Tuesday, May 22. Overall, the Symposium will feature 279 oral presentations, plus a Poster Session featuring 210 poster papers that also will take place on Tuesday. The sessions are divided up between 12 of the hottest areas of display technology, which are broken down here by number of sessions. (NOTE: Some sessions are shared between two categories, therefore the total below is greater than 68.)

• Liquid-Crystal Technology: 12 Sessions

• OLEDs: 12 Sessions

• Active-Matrix Devices: 10 Sessions

• Display Systems: 9 Sessions

• Display Electronics: 6 Sessions

• Display Manufacturing: 6 Sessions

• Emissive Devices: 5 Sessions

• Applied Vision: 4 Sessions

• Field-Emission Displays: 3 Sessions

• Projection: 3 Sessions

• Display Applications: 2 Sessions

• Display Measurement: 2 Sessions

In terms of the number of papers, Liquid-Crystal Technology has the most with 93 papers, followed by OLEDs (organic-light-emitting diodes) with 86 total papers. Fan Luo, General Chair of this Display Week 2007, commented that the ongoing improvements to LC and OLED technologies should make for an exciting program.

"The 2007 Symposium sees the continuing trends of improving LCD TV's visual performance by employing various techniques such as 120 Hz driving, dynamic control using LED local dimming, and motion-compensated impulsive driving to reduce the blurring effect of the LCD TV," Luo said. "Also, OLED devices have kept their fast pace of progress. This year, there are two sessions on white OLEDs with improved efficiency, longer life, and better match with color filters, and two sessions on the improvements of OLED life."

Papers of particular note, according to Luo, include two from Samsung, which will discuss a 70-in. thin-film transistor (TFT) LCD with the motion blur reduced by using a motion-compensated frame interpolation technique (Paper 24.1), as well as a 14.3-in. 1280 x 900 electrophoretic flexible display using an amorphous-silicon thin-film transistor (a-Si TFT) fabricated at below 120° C (Paper 58.5).

"There have also been first-time OLED prototypes driven by either organic TFTs or ZnO (zinc oxide) TFTs," Luo added. "ZnO TFTs have become a popular alternative to organic TFTs because of their high mobility and transparency."

There will be four papers this year dealing with the processing of ZnO TFTs. These will include a paper from Sony detailing a novel laser transfer technology for manufacturing large-sized OLED panels (Paper 53.2). Sony turned heads at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) by showing off its 11- and 27-in. OLED prototypes, adding to recent hype that OLED may be the future of flat-screen TV technology. LG.Philips LCD will also make a presentation on OLEDs, evaluating various techniques such as voltage compensation, current writing, and digital driving in order to solve the problem of mura in active-matrix OLED panels caused by non-uniform low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS) characteristics (Paper 41.1).

In addition to the Symposium, the program has been set for all the other elements of Display Week 2007, including the Sunday Short Courses, Display Technology Seminars, Applications Tutorials, Business Conference and Investors Conference. To view the program for any element of Display Week 2007, visit the official conference Web site at www.sid2007.org and click on the "Program" button.

About Display Week
Display Week 2007: The SID International Symposium, Seminar & Exhibition will take place Sun., May 20 through Fri., May 25 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California, USA. It is the foremost international gathering of scientists, engineers, manufacturers, marketers and users in the field of electronic-information displays. For more information, visit www.sid2007.org.

About SID
The Society for Information Display (SID) is the premier international professional society exclusively devoted to the advancement of electronic-display technology, manufacturing, and applications. Its international headquarters are located at 610 South Second Street, San Jose, CA 95112, U.S.A. Visit SID online at www.sid.org.