Display Industry Awards

The Display Industry Awards are the display industry’s most prestigious honor, given annually since 1995 by the Society for Information Display to recognize the best display products or applications introduced to the market during the previous calendar year. There are three award categories: Display of the Year, Display Application of the Year, and Display Component of the Year. Every year winners in each category are selected by the Display Industry Awards Committee based on nominations from SID members and non-members alike. The awards are announced and presented at Display Week, the annual SID International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition.

The winners of the 2026 Display Industry Awards are posted below. Entries for 2027 will open this fall.

Display of the Year Award: This award is granted to a display product that had the most significant technological advances or outstanding features.

Display Application of the Year Award: This award is granted to a novel and outstanding product or application leveraging a display that resulted in significant impact to the market, while the display itself is not necessarily a new device.

Display Component of the Year Award: This award is granted for a 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, or display test equipment. Note: Display panels or modules should be nominated in the Display of the Year category rather than in the component category.

2026 DIA Winners

DISPLAYS OF THE YEAR

This award is granted to display products with the most significant technological advances or outstanding features.

LG Display: 27-inch 540-/720-Hz DFR gaming OLED panel

LG Display's 27-inch 540- and 720-Hz dynamic frequency and resolution (DFR) gaming OLED panel—the first to deliver a native 540-Hz refresh rate at quad high-definition (QHD) resolution—sets a new standard for speed and clarity. It represents a major leap in ultrahigh-performance display technology, redefining what is possible for competitive gaming, immersive entertainment, and professional visual applications.

Looking Glass: 16-inch and 27-inch hololuminescent displays

Hololuminescent Displays (HLDs) are a new category of spatial display that enable people, products, and characters to feel physically present. They are delivered on a razor-thin screen with no headsets, eye-tracking, or specialized content pipelines required. The technology behind the HLD represents a fundamental departure from prior approaches, resulting in a unique spatial display that generates more than one foot of perceived depth from panels only millimeters thick Hololuminescent Displays (HLDs) are a new category of spatial display that enable people, products, and characters to feel physically present. They are delivered on a razor-thin screen with no headsets, eye-tracking, or specialized content pipelines required. The technology behind the HLD represents a fundamental departure from prior approaches, resulting in a unique spatial display that generates more than one foot of perceived depth from panels only millimeters thick.

Samsung Display: Foldable AMOLED display in the Galaxy Z TriFold

The Galaxy Z TriFold represents the next evolution of Samsung's foldable innovation, extending its leadership in new form factors designed for the mobile AI era. Built on more than a decade of foldable expertise, Galaxy Z TriFold combines breakthrough engineering with thoughtful design to deliver a device that is both powerfully capable and remarkably portable.

DISPLAY COMPONENTS OF THE YEAR

This award recognizes novel components that have 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.

Dexerials: Particle-arrayed anisotropic conductive film

The particle-arrayed anisotropic conductive film (ACF), known as ArrayFIX, introduces a highly refined interconnection technology engineered specifically for microLED display assembly. This material integrates thermosetting resin with precisely arranged conductive particles, enabling adhesion, electrical conduction, and insulation within a single uniform structure.

Idemitsu Kosan: Organic emissive materials for blue OLEDs

Idemitsu Kosan is recognized for its dual emissive layer (EML) blue, fluorescent OLED material system, a component innovation that improves both efficiency and operational stability of blue OLED pixels—often the most difficult color to optimize in OLED displays.

DISPLAY APPLICATIONS OF THE YEAR

This award acknowledges novel and outstanding applications of a display, where the display itself is not necessarily a new device.

BMW AG: Panoramic Vision

BMW Panoramic Vision is a groundbreaking advancement in automotive display applications and a central element of the BMW Panoramic iDrive system. Designed to enhance intuitive operation and driver focus, this innovation embodies BMW's “hands on the wheel, eyes on the road” principle by seamlessly integrating digital functions with physical controls for improved safety and usability.

Lenovo: Thinkbook Plus G6 laptop with rollable OLED display

The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable is the first commercially available laptop featuring a rollable OLED display. Unlike traditional clamshell laptops or foldable devices, this device features a screen that expands vertically. For portability, it transitions from a compact 14-inch (5:4 aspect ratio, 2,000 × 1,600) laptop to an expansive 16.7-inch (8:9 aspect ratio, 2,000 × 2,350) workspace with the press of a button.

2025 Award Winners

Displays of the Year

Apple: iPad Pro with tandem OLED technology

The iPad Ultra Retina XDR (extreme dynamic range) display features state-of-the-art tandem OLED technology that uses two OLED stacks and combines the light from both to provide phenomenal full-screen brightness. The new iPad Pro supports 1,000 nits of full-screen brightness for standard dynamic range (SDR) and high dynamic range (HDR) content, and 1,600 nits peak for HDR with single-pixel-level precision control.

BOE Technology Group: OLED gaming phone display with under-display camera technology

BOE's 430-ppi UDC panel represents a critical step in resolving the longstanding conflict between display continuity and front-facing camera functionality. Its design philosophy prioritizes seamless visual experiences while addressing core technical challenges in UDC implementation.

Samsung Display Technology: LEAD display technology with polarizer-free innovation for smartphones

Samsung Display has introduced its LEAD initiative, which stands for low power consumption, eco-friendly, augmented brightness, and designed to slim and light. This unique polarizer-free technology for OLEDs was applied to high image qualities in bar-type smartphones for the first time.

Display Component of the Year

This award recognizes novel components that have 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.

FlexEnable: FlexiOM organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) materials for curved e-paper displays

FlexEnable has created and brought to market a set of OTFT materials. Branded FlexiOM, the materials set comprises organic polymer semiconductor and dielectric materials that together form high-performance OTFTs, which bring unique form factors and functionality to curved displays and active optics. These are the first OTFT materials to be incorporated into a mass-produced consumer device.

TOPPAN: Transparent decorative film for display concealment

The TOPPAN Transparent Decorative Film is an innovative display solution that combines the natural aesthetics of materials, such as wood and stone, with the ability to display clear images.

Display Application of the Year

This award acknowledges novel and outstanding applications of a display, where the display itself is not necessarily a new device.

Brelyon: Multi-focal OLED display system for flight simulation

Brelyon Ultra Reality Extend is a technology forerunner as the first “generative display system,” integrating human-vision-centric optics with artificial intelligence (AI). The result is virtual images rendered at different monocular depths and generative content overlaid on existing video streams, games, and data visualizations. Ultra Reality Extend offers a dynamic, visual experience and a seamless virtual window without headgear, ideal for flight simulation training and other enterprise use cases.