**Meeting Notice - September Webinar**
Wednesday 10th Sept 5pm BST
Speaker: Michel Delmas, CEO MD Microelectronics
Bio: Michel graduated as engineer in microelectronics and started to work at Motorola in the 1990’s in automotive high power transistor design. He then joined Synelec, a famous leader in video walls for control rooms, as a test and system integration engineer. Later he switched to manufacturing engineering and production manager when Synelec was acquired by Clarity and Planar. In 2007, he joined the R&D team at Eyevis Gmbh, where he was in charge of developing a high end video processing system based on FPGA architecture. In 2015, the team developed LED cabinets and LED processors before the acquisition of Eyevis by Leyard. Michel founded MD Microelectronics three years ago with the ambition to develop simple big size and very low power visual communication systems.
Abstract: One day at the airport, I saw that they were using high resolution LCDs to direct passengers. These waste more than 1000kWh of electricity per year just to display an arrow, so I decided to double check the impact of recent display technologies on environment. I discovered that:
- the LED manufacturing process needs more than 1 liter of water per led
- light pollution from those displays has an impact on biodiversity and human health, especially the blue light,
- information displays show static images most of the time,
- that the bigger the screen, the more it consumes electricity and generates light pollution.
I evaluated reflective displays manufacturers and appreciated their big eco advantages; but existing technologies are not designed for big size displays that need a lot of energy, so we imagined a new concept of reflective display that suits large visual communication surfaces using microfluidic technologies. The goal is to reach zero light pollution and zero watts when the displayed image is static. We imagined it modular, to adapt this technology to any kind of information display, whatever the observing distance and size is. The technology includes micropumps, microvalves and microfluidic network; they are designed to inject precise quantity of colored fluids into pixel cavity layers, so the pixel can keep its color without any energy for hours.
SID UK and Ireland Chapter 2025 meeting and AGM
Tuesday March 18th
SID UK & Ireland hosted an in-person one day meeting on novel display technologies and display applications.
The meeting was at the Institute of Physics in London, close to Kings Cross St Pancras Station. The meeting created a perfect opportunity to network in person with leaders in the field.
Speakers were: Intel, Counterpoint Research, Envisics, Microsoft, SeeCubic, Rain Technology, VividQ, Brightview Technologies, Reality Optics, Helio Display Materials, Ansys and Nanoco.
A video record of the event can be found here. Thanks to Dominic Murphy for the video footage (dominic@dofilm.org +44 7715 639066).
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Past Meetings:
"Displayweek Business Conference Highlights" - Bob Raikes, 10th July 2025
"Bringing OTFT technology into mass production for flexible EPD and beyond" - Dr Paul Cain, 29th April 2025
"Direct Atomic Layer Processing (DALP®), a novel approach to micro- and nanoscale device manufacturing" - Dr Benjamin Borrie, 24th April 2024
"The Challenge of Realizing Low Power Logic from Thin Film Semiconductors" - Prof Andrew Flewitt, 12th Nov 2024
"EuroDisplay in Review" - Dr Adrian Travis, 23rd Oct 2024
"AR/VR Displays: Technology Trends and Market Outlook" - Guillaume Chansin, 12th Sept 2024
"Gamut Rings, and why to stop using Chromaticity" - Dr Euan Smith, 23rd July 2024
"Reflections on Displayweek" Sam Phenix and Ed Buckley, 27th June 2024
UK/IRL in-person meeting and AGM, 14th March 2024
"Holographic displays for AR" - Dr Ed Buckley, 13th February 2024
"Achieving Energy Efficiency in Red microLEDs for the next generation of microLED Displays" - Caroline O'Brien, Webinar, 16th January 2024
"Building the future of Semiconductor Lighting with Surface Emitting SLEDs" - Dr Juan Morales, Webinar, 6th December 2023
"Emissive displays using Organic Thin-Film Transistor Technology" - Dr Simon Ogier, Webinar, 7th November 2023
"Development of the first wireless dynamic focus liquid crystal contact lenses" - Dr James Bailey, Webinar, 25th October 2023
"Can we tame the light waves?" - Prof Mohsen Rahmani, Webinar, 19th September 2023
"Waveguides for Augmented Reality Displays" - Dr Andreas Georgiou, Webinar, 12th July 2023
"Flexible LC optics and displays for curved and biaxially formed active surfaces" - Dr Paul Cain, FlexEnable, Webinar, 28th June 2023
"Perovskites for In-Pixel Colour Conversion" - Dr Bernard Wenger, Helio Display Materials, Webinar, 12th April 2023
2022 SID session at ITC 2022, University of Surrey, Guildford, 15th Sept 2022
2020 SID session at InnoLAE 2020, Wellcome Genome Camplus, Cambridge, 21st Jan 2020
"Emerging technologies for displays" - Programme
2019 AGM and 1-Day Technical Meeting, CSA Catapult Innovation Centre, Newport, Wednesday 20th November 2019,
"Compound Semiconductors for Display Applicaitons" - Programme
2018 AGM and Evening Technical Meeting, UCL, 28th Nov 2018.
"Integrated Photonics and Electronics for Displays" - Programme
2018 LCD 50th Anniversary Meeting, Royal Academy of Engineering, 7th June 2018
Programme Report Review Article in "Liquid Crystals Today"
2017 1-day Technical Meeting, Flexenable, 24th October 2017
"Emerging Display Technologies" - Programme
2017 - Free Technical Meeting, BBC R+D, 27th Feb 2017
"HDR and the Future of TV" - Programme