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July 2007 
Volume 3, Number 6

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HEADLINES 

1. Online Registration and Hotel Reservations Now Available for the 2007 Display Applications Conference

2. SID Issues Display Week 2008 Call for Papers

3. Mobile Displays Conference Announces Speakers

4. Upcoming SID Events

5. Upcoming Chapter Events

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Online Registration and Hotel Reservations Now Available for the 2007 Display Applications Conference

The fourth annual Display Applications Conference and Supplier Showcase is almost here, and the official conference Web site is ready to help you make all your plans to attend.

By visiting www.displayapps2007.org, you can now register for the conference and make your hotel reservations online. As always, you'll also find program details and information on how to exhibit at the Display Applications Conference.

The Display Applications Conference is the world's premier display event focusing on the integration of today's display applications and components. This year's conference will take place at the San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel in Burlingame, California from October 23-25.

SID Issues Display Week 2008 Call for Papers

SID is now accepting abstract submissions for Display Week 2008, which will be held May 18-23, 2008, in Los Angeles, California. Original papers on all aspects of the research, engineering, application, evaluation, and utilization of displays will be considered.

Once again, SID expects flat-panel television technologies such as PDP, LCD, and LCoS projection to be hot topics this year. OLEDs will also be highlighted, as well as technology for low-power-consumption and higher-performance displays for battery-powered applications.

Paper submissions are encouraged in any of the following categories:

• Active-Matrix Devices
• Applications
• Applied Vision/Human Factors
• Display Electronics
• Display Manufacturing
• Display Measurement
• Display Systems
• Emissive Displays
• Field-Emission Displays (FEDs)
• Liquid-Crystal and Other Non-Emissive Displays
• Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs)
• Projection Displays

For more details, submission guidelines, or to read the full Call for Papers online, please visit www.sid2008.org.

Mobile Displays Conference Announces Speakers

A prestigious list of speakers has been announced for this year's SID Mobile Displays Conference, which will be held Oct. 2-3 in San Diego, California. Among the industry professionals who will discuss the business and technology trends for displays and components used in mobile products will be:

• Jim Schuessler, Senior Displays Technologist, National Semiconductor
• Jim Zhaung, Manager, Display Group, Motorola
• Achintya Bhowmik, Manager, Mobile Display Technologies, Intel
• Timo Jaatinen, Manager, Nokia
• Jason Yun, Senior Director, Samsung Electronics, Mobile Display Marketing
• Barry Young, Senior Vice President, DisplaySearch
• Vinita Jakhanwal, Principal Analyst, iSuppli Corporation
• Sean Lee, Senior Marketing Manager, Samsung SDI
• Jennifer Gille, Engineer, Staff, QUALCOMM MEMS Technologies
• Julie Brown, Vice President and CTO, Universal Display Corporation
• Zili Li, Manager, Motorola
• Frank Moizio, Manager Worldwide Strategic Marketing, Texas Instruments
• Russell Hannigan, Director of Product Management, Microvision
• Edward Buckley, Manager, Light Blue Optics
• Chris Chinnock, President, Insight Media
• Jyrki Kimmel, Display Research, Nokia
• James Laumer, Senior Engineering Specialist, 3M Optical Systems
• Joel Pollack, President and CEO, Clairvoyante
• Adolfo Garcia, Product Line Director, Advanced Analogic Technologies
• Fariborz Pourbigharaz, Engineer, AMD
• Shri Sundaram, Manager of Business Development, Toshiba America
• Kyle Baker, Vice President of Marketing, California Micro Devices
• Shouji Nagao, Senior Engineer, Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
• Yasuyuki Kudo, Senior Researcher, Hitachi, Ltd. Central Research Lab
• Chris Ludden, Design Center Manager, National Semiconductor
• John Schultz, 3M
• Johan Feenstra, Director Technology Platforms, Liquavista
• Mike Powell, CEO, Pelikon, Ltd.

SID's second Mobile Displays Conference will once again explore trends for displays used in mobile products such as cell phones, PDAs, handheld games, MP3 players, digital still cameras and navigation products. The attendee base will be quite wide and will include display professionals as well as engineering, marketing and business planners from the following sectors:

• Mobile-phone product design
• Other handheld mobile-system design
• Makers of small displays
• Driver-chip manufacturers for mobile displays
• Display-component makers (i.e., backlights, optical enhancement films, polarizers and drivers)
• Wireless service providers
• Power management
• Graphics and display-system architecture
• Materials and components for mobile displays

Registration is still available at a discounted rate at www.sidhottopics.org. SID Mobile Displays will be held October 2-3, 2007 at the Paradise Point Resort and Spa in San Diego, California.

Upcoming SID Events

EuroDisplay 2007
September 17-20, 2007
Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow, Russia

The EuroDisplay Conference will head to Russia this year for the first time in its 17-year history. EuroDisplay offers a unique opportunity to learn about the research going on today that will pave the way for the most cutting-edge display technologies of tomorrow. The conference, organized this year by SID in cooperation with its Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine chapters, takes place bi-annually on a rotating basis with the International Display Research Conference (IDRC). Workshops, tutorials, and academic papers will be presented this year in the following areas:

• LCDs and other non-emissive displays
• CRTs/FEDs/PDPs
• LEDs/OLEDs/ELDs
• E-Paper/Flexible Displays
• Microdisplays
• Projection Displays
• Electronics and Applied Vision
• Systems, Applications
• Markets

To learn more about this exciting conference or to register, please visit http://eurodisplay.nicko.ru/index.html.

14th Annual Symposium on Vehicle Displays
Vehicles and Photons 2007
October 11-12, 2007,
University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI

The Detroit Chapter of the Society for Information Display sponsors this technical symposium to bring together scientists and engineers from the display technology, photonics, and vehicle systems communities. The first call for papers has been issued for Vehicles & Photons 2007. Contributed papers are solicited in the following areas:

• Display technologies applicable to vehicular applications,
• New developments in display technologies and FPD Components (includes, but not limited to OLED, LCD, VFD, MEMs, HUD/transparent/flexible displays, etc.),
• Optical Components and Issues (optical coating, haze, high ambient contrast, luminance & color uniformity, optical modeling),
• Human-Vehicle-Interface,
• Display legibility, visual information issues, driver distraction, driver inputs, human factors issues, optical; capacitive; and tactile interaction,
• Lighting technologies applicable to vehicular implementations,
• Organic and flexible electronics opportunities and developments, including both display and non-display technology
• Nano-materials including nanotechnology for device development and potential applications of nano-materials to display and vehicle related applications
• System Solutions for in car integration and interfaces (includes but not limited to Heads Up Display, Night Vision, Navigation, Multi-Media / Rear Seat Entertainment)
• Displays & Controls
• Simulations & Modeling related to displays & controls
• Display Metrology

All interested authors are invited to submit extended abstracts for presentations, particularly in the areas noted above. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is June 29, 2007. Authors will be notified by July 27, 2007. Authors of accepted papers are expected to submit a complete paper for inclusion in the Conference Book that will be distributed to all attendees at the Symposium. The deadline for receipt of papers is August 31, 2007. All presentations will be collected at the Symposium for inclusion in a CD-ROM that will be distributed to all attendees after the Symposium.

PLEASE SUBMIT A ONE PAGE ABSTRACT TO:
Mark Goldfarb, Vehicle Display 2007
411 Lafayette Street, Suite 201, New York, NY 10003
(212) 460-9700, (212) 460-5460 (fax)
E-mail mgoldfarb@pcm411.com
Abstract submission requirements and more information can be found on the SID Web site: www.sidchapters.org/metrodetroit/index.html

Upcoming Chapter Events
Please submit any upcoming chapter events or announcements to jess@sid.org for inclusion in SIDirect and Information Display magazine.

SID Mid-Europe Chapter Spring Meeting
March 13-14
Jena, Germany

The SID Mid Europe Chapter organizes yearly spring and fall meetings with technical and scientific presentations, attracting many European display professionals. The chapter's next gathering will be held March 13-14, 2008 at the Abbe Center in Jena, Germany.

The 2008 spring meeting will focus on different aspects of microdisplays and their applications. Basic technology will be covered as well as optical components and systems or applications in multimedia and niche markets. For the first time in the meeting history we have the possibility to arrange a poster session. This offers more participants the possibility to present their work. Limited space for industrial exhibitors is also available.

The meeting will close on the second day with a visit to the laboratories of the Fraunhofer IOF.

For more information on this event, please visit www.iof.fraunhofer.de/sid/index.html.