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October 2007 
Volume 3, Number 9

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HEADLINES 

1. REMINDER: Abstract Deadline for Display Week 2008: The SID International Symposium, Seminar & Exhibition is December 3

2. Nominations for the 2008 Display of the Year Awards Now Being Accepted

3. Upcoming SID Events

4. Chapter News and Events

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REMINDER: Abstract Deadline for Display Week 2008: The SID International Symposium, Seminar & Exhibition is December 3

The deadline to submit abstract paper submissions for Display Week 2008 is December 3, 2007. The conference will take place May 18-23, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California. The Final Call for Papers is now available at www.sid2008.org.

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.

Nominations for the 2008 Display of the Year Awards Now Being Accepted

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2008 Display of the Year Awards, the most prestigious awards in the display industry. The awards will be announced and presented at Display Week 2008: The SID International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition, which will take place in Los Angeles, CA, May 18-23, 2008.

The Display of the Year Awards Committee has opened up the nominations process to allow companies to self-nominate their own products, applications and components, in addition to accepting outside nominations. However, the source of the nomination will in no way influence the committee's final selections of award winners. In short, anyone can nominate any product, application or component, regardless of company affiliation.

The deadline for nominations is December 31, 2007. To be eligible for a 2008 award, the product, application or component must have been introduced and been commercially available at some time between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2007.

Display of the Year Award winners are selected by an international committee consisting of leading members of the technical display community. The DYAC considers many factors, including technical innovation, commercial significance, and likely social impact when determining the award winners.

Awards Categories

Display of the Year Award
This award is granted for a display with novel and outstanding features such as new physical or chemical effects, or a new addressing method. Examples of appropriate nominations are: LC, plasma or OLED displays, bistable displays, or HDTV displays with novel means of rendering fast-moving pictures.

Display Application of the Year Award
This award is granted for a novel and outstanding application of display, where the display itself is not necessarily a new device. Examples of appropriate nominations for this category are: a camera with a display used as a view finder, a display used as an electronic book, a mobile phone with a display or displays used for still or moving pictures, or a novel projection system with known display components.

Display Component of the Year Award
This award is granted for novel component that significantly enhanced the performance of a display. A component is sold as a separate part destined to be incorporated into a display. A component may also include display-enhancing materials and/or parts fabricated with new processes.
Examples of appropriate nominations in this category are: a polarizer, an electrophoretic laminate, or an LED as a backlight.

Nominations
To nominate a product, component or application for a 2008 Display of the Year Award, visit http://www.sid.org/awards/dya.html and download the appropriate nomination form, complete it entirely (including supporting documentation) and submit it by December 31, 2007.

Upcoming SID Events

15th Color Imaging Conference:
Color Science and Engineering Systems, Technologies and Applications
November 5-9, 2007
Hotel Albuquerque
Albuquerque, NM
Co-sponsored by SID and the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T), CIC15 will be held November 5-9, 2007 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

This single-track meeting, complemented by an interactive paper session, tutorials, and robust networking events, features in-depth papers covering the latest usage of color in medical imaging, spatial color gamut mapping, gamut computation, color correction, high-dynamic-range imaging, spectral imaging, mobile displays, color appearance, and more.

Featured Keynote presentations will include:

• Terry Regier, associate professor in the University of Chicago's Department of Psychology, will speak on color naming and the effect of language on perception.
• Scott Tyo, associate professor of Optical Sciences and of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, will discuss combining hyper-spectral and polarization contrast images into a unified color image.
• Fred Schubert, Wellfleet Senior Constellation Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will talk about LEDs in color imaging.
• David Haaland, senior scientist at the Cancer Biology Research Program at Sandia National Laboratories, will present "Hyperspectral Imaging: Converting Colors to Molecular Information."

CIC15 will take place at the Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town in Albuquerque, New Mexico. To learn more about the conference or to register, please visit www.imaging.org/conferences/CIC15. Or, go to www.sid.org and click on "conferences."

LatinDisplay 2007
November 12-15
Sao Paolo, Brazil
LatinDisplay 2007, to be held in Campinas, Sao Paolo, November 12-15, 2007, integrates the XIV InfoDisplay, XI Seminário BrDisplay, IX Latin SID Seminar, and the IX DisplayEscola, promoted by the Latin American SID Chapter, the Brazilian Network on Displays (BrDisplay) and the Ibero-American Network on Displays.

The objective of the event is the exchange of information between scientists, engineers, and technicians from companies and R&D institutions involved in displays and related areas. The conference also aims to attract new professionals and students to the area.

The congress will cover the most recent advances and trends in displays, their materials and processes. It will encourage open discussions on the needs and opportunities for the Ibero-American Region and will foster cooperative R&D programs.

A highlight of LatinDisplay 2007 will be invited conferences presented by scientific and technical experts and will have a tutorial character, encompassing the topics mentioned below. Other items on the agenda include: contributed papers; lectures and laboratory classes; business opportunity round table; meetings of the Ibero-American Network, BrDisplay Network and SID Latin-American Chapter; visits to laboratories and companies and an Exhibition.

The topics covered will be:

• Overview of displays, trends and perspectives (plasma displays, liquid crystal displays, field emission displays, e-Paper, holographic displays, light emitting displays - OLEDs and TFELs - etc.)
• Materials and processes
• Backlight units
• Measuring techniques
• Addressing circuits
• Quality and reliability
• Manufacturing processes
• Assembling and packaging
• Equipment and instruments
• Applications
• Other technologies related to displays: touch screens, tablets, optical cross connect, etc.
• Display ergonomics and human factors.

Participants are invited to contribute with scientific and technical posters and papers on all aspects of display technologies (LCDs, FEDs, holographic, PDPs, DMDs, TFELs, OLEDs etc.) and related technologies (touch-screens, tablets, optical switches etc.). So, they may cover materials, processes, design, testing, reliability, modeling, addressing electronics, ergonomics and applications. The posters may be presented in Portuguese, Spanish or preferably in English and their abstracts (50-100 words) must be submitted for refereeing, according to the template available at http://www.brdisplay.com/latindisplay2007.

Chapter News and Events

SID UCLA Branch Formed
Students at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) have formed a UCLA chapter of SID. The group received its official citation on September 27, when it was recognized at a meeting of SID's Los Angeles chapter.

The new branch's Founding and First Academic Advisor is Professor Yang Yang. The Founding Student is Jinsong Huang. First Officers are Juo-Hao Li (Chair), William W. Hou (Vice Chair), Li-Min Chen (Secretary), and Zheng Xu (Treasurer).

Get the News from FPD International with SID LA Chapter
On Oct. 29, SID's LA chapter will host a presentation by Insight Media editor Ken Werner, who will discuss the latest developments and news from the FPD International show in Japan. This event covers digital signage, projection, cars and FPDs, OLEDs, new displays, TV image quality, ink jet technologies, FPD market prospects, electronic paper applications and technologies, picture quality, mobile display devices, backlights, and color reproduction.

The meeting will be held Monday, Oct. 29, 2007 at the Proud Bird restaurant in Los Angeles. The lecture is free, but dinner tickets are also available for $20 (members) and $24 (nonmembers).

To make reservations, contact Phil Joujon-Roche at (714) 281-6127, p.joujon-roche@adelphia.net or Larry Iboshi at (714) 992-2331, iboshi@pacbell.net by Thursday, October 25, 2007.

LA Chapter will Hold One-Day Conference on LEDs
On Jan. 11, 2008, SID's LA Chapter will once again hold its one-day conference on LEDs. This exciting conference has proven in years past to be one of SID's most successful chapter events.

This year's conference will focus on LEDs in LCD Lighting Technology. Central topics will include Fundamentals in LED, BLU & Driver Technologies; Technical LED/LCD Reviews & Applications Engineering; and Product, Market & Business Assessments. The conference will also include an exhibition.

This one-day conference will take place January 11, 2008 from 8:00 am - 4:00 pm at the Costa Mesa Country Club in Costa Mesa, California.

The cost of registration before December 16 is $150 for SID members and $200 for nonmembers. Be sure to register in advance, as this popular conference tends to sell out. To register, please contact Erv Ulbrich at eulbrich@earthlink.net.

SID Mid-Europe Chapter to Hold 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's history there is the possibility of arranging 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 http://www.iof.fraunhofer.de/sid/index.html.