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November 2007 
Volume 3, Number 10

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HEADLINES 

1. REMINDER: Less Than One Week Left to Submit Abstracts for Display Week 2008 International Symposium

2. Call for Exhibitors & Sponsors for Display Week 2008

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

4. SID Bookstore: Your One-Stop Shop for Display Books & Symposia Proceedings

5. Visit Information Display Online Everyday for Breaking Industry News

6. Upcoming SID Events

7. SID Chapter News and Events

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REMINDER: Less Than One Week Left to Submit Abstracts for Display Week 2008 International Symposium

The deadline to submit abstract paper submissions for the Display Week 2008 International Symposium is less than a week away. All abstracts must be submitted by December 3, 2007. 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

The conference will take place May 18-23, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California, USA. For more details, submission guidelines, or to read the complete Final Call for Papers online, please visit www.sid2008.org.

Call for Exhibitors & Sponsors for Display Week 2008

More than 8,000 of the world's foremost display scientists, engineers, manufacturers and users are expected to attend Display Week 2008: The SID International Symposium, Seminar & Exhibition, which takes place May 18-23 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California USA. If your company is involved in any aspect of displays, including display electronics, components, systems, services, manufacturing equipment and/or applications, exhibiting at Display Week 2008 is the best way to garner worldwide recognition and grow your business on a global scale.

Display Week enjoys worldwide acclaim as the can't-miss event of the electronic information-display industry. The Display Week Exhibition serves as the nursery of the industry, where leading global information-display companies proudly unveil the most cutting-edge developments in display technology for the first time. More display innovations are introduced each year at Display Week than at any other display show in the world. Display Week is where the world got its first look at the technologies that now shape today's electronics world, including HDTV, LCD, Plasma, DLP, OLED and FED, to name a few.

Exhibit space is filling up fast, so act now. For information on exhibiting at Display Week 2008, visit the official conference Web site at www.sid2008.org and click on the Exhibition button.

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.

SID Bookstore: Your One-Stop Shop for Display Books & Symposia Proceedings

Did you know that SID offers more than 300 publications for sale in the SID Bookstore, which can be accessed via www.sid.org? The publications offered here are incredible resources, ranging from conference proceedings from all of SID's world-renowned conferences, to special publications such as the 12 books that are part of the "SID Wiley Series in Display Technology."

For example, among the items available in the bookstore are most of the Digests of Technical Papers from almost every SID Symposium since 1985, as well as nearly all of the Seminar Notes from 1985 to 2007, plus Applications Notes/Tutorials from 1993 to the present and Short Course Notes from 1995 to the present.

Also available are proceedings from other SID-sponsored conferences, including proceedings from ADT, ADEAC, ASID, CIC, IDMC, IDRC (including Asia Display and Eurodisplay), and IDW, to the most recent Mobile Displays and Big Displays "Hot Topics" conferences.

In addition, the bookstore has 28 special display-technology books, which include the 12 books that comprise the "SID Wiley Series in Display Technology," edited by Anthony C. Lowe. This series is made up of books covering display technology for the practicing engineer written by world-renowned experts in fields such as microdisplays, LCDs, flexible displays, projection displays, display interfaces, color engineering, display systems, and elec

SID members receive a special discount. To access the SID bookstore directly, visit www.sidmembers.org/source/Orders/index.cfm?section=Orders&activesection=Orders. The bookstore can also be accessed via the SID home page at www.sid.org.

Visit Information Display Online Everyday for Breaking Industry News

Stay up to date with all of the latest happenings from the world of displays by visiting Information Display Online every day.

The site is updated daily with breaking news and new product introductions, and includes a growing archive of past issues of Information Display, the official monthly publication of the SID. In 2008, look for Web-exclusive content that can't be found anywhere else.

So make sure to bookmark www.informationdisplay.org and visit daily to stay up to date on the latest developments in the rapidly changing world of information displays.

Upcoming SID Events

14th International Display Workshops (IDW '07)
December 5-7, 2007
Sapporo, Japan

IDW '07 will integrate 14 workshops and one topical session in specialized fields playing important roles in information-display activities, and are designed to be of interest not only to researchers and engineers, but also to those who manage companies and institutions in the display community.

Sponsored by SID and the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, the three-day conference will feature 551 papers, including 2 keynote addresses, 2 invited addresses, 85 invited papers, 183 oral and 279 poster presentations, and additional late-news papers. Exhibitions from display and related industries will also be featured from Wednesday to Friday in parallel with workshops and the topical session.

For more information on IDW '07, visit http://www.idw.ne.jp.

SID Chapter News and Events

TN-LCD Inventor Visits with University of Central Florida SID Chapter
Dr. Martin Schadt, the inventor of TN LCD, on November 14 presented an invited seminar on "Field-Effect LCDs, Liquid Crystalline Materials and Surface Alignment" at the College of Optics and Photonics of the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando, FL. The event was hosted by the SID UCF Student Branch and attended by more than 50 faculty and graduate students.

Prior to seminar, Professor Shin-Tson Wu, the chapter's SID student branch advisor, introduced his research group and presented a series of student lab demos. In the afternoon after seminar, Professor Wu's Photonics and Display group made presentations to Dr. Schadt. For more information, visit http://sid.creol.ucf.edu.

SID Texas Chapter Hosts Event Focused on DLP® Products
The Texas Chapter of SID hosted an event in Dallas on October 17 that focused on DLP® technology, hosted by Texas Instruments (TI). Three presentations regarding this ground-breaking microdisplay technology were given by employees of TI.

• Paul Rancuret, Lead Systems Engineer for DLP® Technology Development at TI, presented "It's the Mirrors! How Small Mirrors Make a Big Difference."
• Frank Moizio of TI delivered "View it Big: Redefining the Mobile Display Experience"
• Greg Basile, Program Manager for LED DLP® TV at TI, presented "DLP® and LED for TV."

Rancuret's and Basile's presentations are available for download by visiting the Texas Chapter's Web site at http://www.sidchapters.org/texas/.

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 14 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.