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January 2006 
Volume 1, Number 11

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HEADLINES 

1. SID 2006 Announces Preliminary Program; Technical Symposium Features Most Papers in Event's History

2. Online Registration Now Available for SID 2006

3. IDRC 2006 Seeks Paper Submissions

4. ADEAC Heads to Atlanta

5. JSID Announces Outstanding Student Paper of the Year Award Winners

6. Vehicle Display 2006 Symposium Issues Call for Papers

7. L.A. SID Shines at One-Day LED Conference

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SID 2006 Announces Preliminary Program; Technical Symposium Features Most Papers in Event's History

As the worldwide display industry continues to grow, the SID International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition is expanding right along with it. Organizers of SID 2006, which will take place June 4-9 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, Ca., this week unveiled its preliminary program, which for the second consecutive year contains a record number of accepted oral and poster papers for the Technical Symposium. Organizers stressed that not only is the number of papers unprecedented, but so is the quality of those papers, making SID 2006 a can't-miss event for anyone in the display industry.

At SID 2005, the Technical Symposium was expanded to four days for the first time in the event's four-decade-plus history, due to the record 434 accepted papers. For SID 2006, the number of accepted papers jumped another 15 percent to 495 (280 oral and 215 poster papers), meaning that the Technical Symposium will once again run Tuesday through Friday, June 6-9. Conference organizers expect that the expanded Technical Symposium-when combined with new topics in the Applications Tutorials, Sunday Short Courses and Display Technology Seminars; extremely strong programs for the Business and Investors Conferences; and the dazzling Exhibition featuring more than 220 display-related companies from around the world-will attract more than 8,000 attendees to SID 2006, making it the best-attended show in SID history.

"The Technical Symposium is one of the best we have ever had, and looks very exciting in terms of topics," said SID 2006 Program Chair Dr. Amal Ghosh. "There is a worldwide interest in the display area that is unprecedented, and that is reflected in the volume of outstanding papers that will be presented at SID 2006."

Among the topics that Ghosh singled out as particularly hot topics this year include organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), which has 14 sessions dedicated to it; plasma TV (7 sessions); liquid-crystal display (LCD) TV (6 sessions); flexible displays (5 sessions); LCD motion-blur reduction (4 sessions); and mobile displays (3 sessions). The Technical Symposium offers a total of 72 sessions in the following 12 tracks: Active Matrix Devices, Applications, Applied Vision, Display Electronics, Display Manufacturing, Display Measurement, Display Systems, Emissive Displays, Liquid Crystal Technology, OLEDs, Projection, and Field Emission Displays (FEDs). In the past, FEDs were part of a combined track with Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) technology, but for the first time in SID history, no CRT papers were submitted, resulting in the elimination of the CRT designation from this track.

This year's lineup of 12 Display Technology Seminars on Monday, June 5, will feature 8 new subjects complementing the 4 returning seminars (OLED Manufacturing Technology, Polymer OLED (POLED) Technology, LED Backlighting, and LCD TV Electronics). The 8 new seminar topics include:

• The Race for TVs with Higher Luminous Efficiency

• 3-D Displays

• Display Characterization

• Reflective Display Technology

• Human-Factor Considerations

• Nanotechnology for Displays

• Optical Enhancement of Active-Matrix LCDs (AMLCDs)

• Electronics for Digital TV

Two new Sunday Short Courses will debut at SID 2006: Fundamentals of MEMS-Based Displays, and Fundamentals of Display Optics, which join the returning Fundamentals of Flexible Flat-Panel Display Technology and Fundamentals of Vision and Color Sciences, all of which are being presented by experts in their fields. Five of the six Applications Tutorials are new in 2006 as well: Active-Matrix-Addressing Technologies for Flat-Panel Displays; LC Modes for Various Display Applications; Emerging Display Technologies; Resolution Requirements for Various Display Applications Based on Human Factors; and LED-Backlighting System Design. The one holdover from 2005, back by popular demand, is Flat-Panel-Display Measurements, presented again by Edward F. Kelley from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

The popular Business and Investors Conferences also return this year. The Business Conference will take place on Monday, June 5 and Tuesday, June 6, while the Investors Conference will take place Tuesday, June 6 and Wednesday, June 7. The Tuesday program is the same for both Conferences, and includes the SID 2006 Keynote Addresses. The Business Conference will feature discussions by the highest-level executives from leading display-industry organizations on all segments of the display business. At the Investment Conference, once again co-sponsored once again by securities and investment-banking firm SG Cowen & Co., leading public and private display companies will present themselves to a broad audience of financial professionals, including securities analysts, portfolio managers, individual investors, mergers-and-acquisitions specialists, venture capitalists and display-company executives. The 2006 Investors Conference program is filling up quickly, but Conference Chair Elliott Schlam will still entertain proposals from qualified, interested presenters who can offer a one-of-a-kind outlook to this specialized audience. If you are interested, contact Schlam via e-mail at eschlam@aol.com.

For more information on all elements of SID 2006, including the complete preliminary program, visit www.sid2006.org.

Online Registration Now Available for SID 2006

Save money and avoid long lines at SID 2006 by registering in advance for the world's preeminent display-technology event. Registering in advance is easy: Visit http://www.sid.org/conf/sid2006/options.html, where you can register online, or download forms you can use to fax or mail in your registration. The advance registration deadline is May 19.

IDRC 2006 Seeks Paper Submissions

The 26th International Display Research Conference (IDRC), which will take place September 18-21, 2006, at the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, has published its final Call for Papers. Papers in all areas of display research will be considered for presentation at IDRC 2006. The deadline for paper submission is May 10, 2006.

The conference will feature a technical symposium where attendees can learn about the latest display research results from around the world, and evening programs that will include a look at the pioneers of display research at the RCA labs. IDRC will also feature workshops on flexible displays as well as "An Introduction to Display Technologies," which will include a unique hands-on opportunity for attendees to build LCDs at Kent State's Liquid Crystal Institute laboratories.

In addition, conference attendees will have the opportunity for lab-based author interviews and technology discussions, and an open-house tour of the Liquid Crystal Institute.

To view the call for papers, which includes instructions on abstract submissions, please visit www.sid.org/conf/idrc2006/call.pdf.

ADEAC 2006 Heads to Atlanta

The Crowne Plaza Ravinia Hotel in Atlanta, Ga., has been selected as the site for the third-annual Americas Display Engineering & Applications Conference (ADEAC), which will take place Monday, October 23 through Thursday, October 26, 2006. Co-sponsored by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) for the second-straight year, ADEAC 2006 is the only conference of its kind in North America, featuring a program focused on the examination of real applications and engineering issues for display products and end-user systems of interest to North American companies.

The most recent ADEAC, held in October 2005 in Portland, Or., saw attendance jump 50 percent from the inaugural event in 2004. ADEAC 2005 had 524 attendees, and Conference Chair Steve Atwood said he was hoping for another attendance bump in 2006.

"ADEAC is really gaining momentum now as the premier display-applications-focused technology conference in the United States, and more and more people are attending as a way to learn about putting display components and technology into their products," Atwood said. "We're really excited to be in the Atlanta area this year because of all the product development that's going on there. The area has a growing interest in display technology, and it's a new region for the Society."

Atlanta was chosen in part to give display professionals across the country an opportunity to attend a SID conference this year (the 2006 Symposium will take place June 4-9 in San Francisco). According to SID Conventions Committee Chair Phil Heyman, Atlanta won out because of its status as a great business city, the unique layout of the hotel that will allow for lectures right alongside exhibits, and the great value of the hotel rooms for conference attendees.

Conference information will be posted on www.sid.org as it becomes available.

JSID Announces Outstanding Student Paper of the Year Award Winners

Five Brown University students have won the 2005 Journal of the SID (JSID) Outstanding Student Paper of the Year Award for their paper, "Pen-Writable Nanocarbon Arrays Fabricated Using Liquid-Crystalline Materials for Potential Use in Displays."

Student authors Matthew E. Sousa, Christopher Chan, Sylvain Clourtier, Kengqing Q. Jian and Bevan S. Weissman will each receive a plaque and share the $2,000 prize associated with this award.

On Dec. 5, 2005, the JSID Awards Committee, consisting of Editor Andras Lakatos, Associate Editors Hideaki Kawakami, Ernst Lueder, and Larry Weber, and SID Publications Chair Aris Silzars, chose the Brown students' paper from 18 eligible entries. "Pen-Writable Nanocarbon Arrays Fabricated Using Liquid-Crystalline Materials for Potential Use in Displays" can be found in JSID, Volume 13, Issue 9, 735-741 (2005).

The committee made its final decision based on the originality, significance, organization, and clarity of the paper. Although the final decision was unanimous, the committee noted it was very difficult to select only a single winner from several of the most deserving papers. Therefore, in future years, multiple awards will be granted if there are a number of deserving papers.

To access JSID, visit http://sid.aip.org/jsid.

Vehicle Display 2006 Symposium Issues Call for Papers

The 13th annual Symposium on Vehicle Displays, organized by SID's Detroit Chapter, has published its first Call for Papers for the event, which will take place October 12-13, 2006, in the Detroit Metropolitan Area.

The symposium, entitled Vehicles and Photons 2006, will focus on the intersection of vehicular display technology and photonic devices and systems.

Submission of abstracts in any of the following symposium topics is encouraged:

• Display technologies applied to vehicular applications

• New developments in display technologies and FPD Components (includes, but not limited to OLED, LCD, VFD, ELD, MEMs, HUD/transparent/flexible displays, etc.)

• Modifications of commercial FPD technologies to achieve automotive compliance

• Optical components and issues (optical coating, haze, high ambient contrast, luminance & color uniformity, optical modeling)

• Human factors and metrology issues (display legibility, visual information issues, driver distraction)

• NEW THIS YEAR! Lighting technologies applicable to vehicular implementations

• NEW THIS YEAR! Organic- and flexible-electronics opportunities and developments, including both display and non-display technology

• NEW THIS YEAR! Nano-materials including nanotechnology for device development and potential applications of nano-materials to display- and vehicle-related applications

• System solutions for in-car visual information interface (includes but not limited to Heads Up Display, Night Vision, Telematics, Multi-Media, Video communication and interface).

All interested authors are invited to submit extended one-page abstracts for presentations, particularly in the areas noted above. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is June 30, 2006. To submit abstracts, or for more information, contact Mark Goldfarb at (212) 460-9700, mgoldfarb@pcm411.com.

L.A. SID Shines at One-Day LED Conference

SID's L.A. Chapter lit up the Costa Mesa Country Club when 145 engineers from all over the world attended its sold-out one-day conference on LEDs on January 16. Attendees from eight countries and 14 U.S. states enjoyed a full day of lectures and LED exhibits.

The conference was designed to present information to display engineers on the rapidly expanding use of LEDs for a wide variety of displays, backlights, and projectors, and featured both LED exhibits and lectures. Speeches by Conference Chair Larry Tannas and Program Chair Bill Kennedy started off the day, followed by talks from eight presenters on LED-related topics such as fundamentals of high-brightness LEDs, LED lighting of LCDs and microdisplays, and LEDs in TVs and desktop monitors.

"It was a long day of learning and networking, but the attendees seemed very satisfied with the experience," said Conference Publicity Chairman Erv Ulbrich.

For more information on all of SID's chapters, visit http://www.sid.org/chapters/chapters.html.