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Issue 28+29

Double Issue

Letter from the publisher: Continued growth at the USDC Flex conference…by Mark Fihn

News from around the world: US Department of Energy,  Fast2Light, CPI/Cenamps, MaDriX, Nanoident, AMAzOLED, CAMM, Heterogeneous Technology Alliance, SSLITA, IDTechEx, Etched in Time/USDC, Honeywell/USDC, USDC/Optomec, DuPont Teijin Films, Evonik/EL-Technologie, FUJIFILM Dimatix, Agilent/FUJIFILM Dimatix, iTi, Tokyo University, Photon Dynamics/Plastic Logic, Endicott Interconnect/Unimicron, EV Group, MicroCat, Digital View, Kent Displays, Innovative Card Technologies/ActivIdentity, SmartDisplayer, Orange, E Ink, Epson/E Ink, Polymer Vision, Nemoptic, Amazon, Toppan Printing/Hitachi, Liquavista, Fraunhofer, Toray Industries, LG Chem/UDC, Merck KGaA, University of Michigan, OLED-T, Bridgestone, Sony, 3DIcon, Sun Yat-Sen University, University of Illinois, Solvay/COPE, Georgia Institute of Technology, CAAN, HP/Crospon, Soligie, Holst Centre, H.C. Stark, Nanosys/Sharp, Bayer MaterialScience/Clariant Masterbatches, Nanocomp Technologies, University of Manchester, Rutgers University, Lund University, Unidym/Nippon Kayaku, Unidym/Ensysce Biosciences, NanoDynamics, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings, Northwestern University, Purdue, NanoGram, University of Wisconsin, Vitex Systems, Opalux, MicroChem/Nippon Kayaku, Rohm and Haas/Gracel Display, DuPont Teijin Films/Thin Film Electronics, ZINK Imaging/ Alps Electric, ZINK Imaging/Foxconn Technology, Toumaz Technology, Tesco/ZBD, Eurovia, National Cheng Kung University, Fusion Optix, Frost & Sullivan, DisplaySearch, NanoMarkets, Displaybank, Axcess International, QD Vision/In-Q-Tel, QD Vision, TenCate/Xennia, IXYS, Laird Technologies, Molecular Vision/Acrongenomics, University of Tokyo, University of Western Sydney, OSRAM, Kodak/LG Display, Kodak, Ciba/Novaled, GE, Novaled, OSRAM/Ingo Maurer, Sony, Corning, SCHOTT Solar/ersol Thin Film, Idaho National Laboratory/Microcontinuum, SnapWatch, Konarka, Top Floor, Duck Image Studio, Jonas Samson, Nokia/University of Cambridge, Light+Building Fair, Konarka/SKYShades, OPTOTECH, Hibino, Enlighted, GlowFur, LumiGram, and Philips Lumalive/Swarovski

Lighting for Mood, Health & Well-being Workshop, April 1, 2008, London, England: Talks from the following companies, Alcan Packaging, Thorn Lighting, St. Andrews University, and Citylights, are relevant to the interests of readers to the Flexible Substrate…

Grand Challenges for Emerging Technologies, January 30-31, 2008, Cambridge, England: This event featured several speakers that discussed topics related to flexible displays including, the Center for Advanced Photonics & Electronics, Imperial College, Pelikon, Plastic Logic, Gwent Electronic Materials, Cambridge Integrated Knowledge Center, and OIDA.

Flexibly speaking about printed electronics by Tom Cheyney

USDC Flexible Displays Conference awards students for outstanding achievement by Phillip Hill

USDC 2008 Flexible Microelectronics & Displays, January 21-24, 2008, Phoenix, Arizona:  In this first report from the annual USDC event, Mark Fihn covers presentations from DisplaySearch, E Ink, Agile Tag, nFlexion, NanoMarkets, and the UKDL

ISFED Conference, December 17-18, 2007, Hsinchu, Taiwan: This conference was organized by the Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan (ITRI), the National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), and the Organic Electronics Association (OE-A). In the first of two reports, Phillip Hill covers presentations from USDC, Merck Chemicals, Holst Centre, and plastic electronic GmbH

DisplayForum 2007, November 14-15, Prague, Czech Republic: Phillip Hill’s second report on this Meko-organized event covers presentations from Liquavista, Nemoptic, and MicroEmissive Displays

Printed Electronics USA 2007, November 12-15, San Francisco, California: In this first report from this IDTechEx-organized event, Phillip Hill covers presentations from Add-Vision, AGFA, BASF, Beltronics, University of California at Berkeley, CDT, Cubic Transportation Systems, FUJIFILM Dimatix, GSI Technologies, HelioVolt, IDTechEx, University of Manchester, NovaCentrix, and NTERA

9th Annual OLEDs World Summit, November 6-9, San Diego, California: This is the second of three reports by Norman Bardsley on the OLEDs World Summit 2007 organized by Intertech-PIRA held in La Jolla near San Diego. The first report focused on topics directly relating to flexible substrates and those on lighting applications will be discussed in the third report.

SID Display Applications Conference, October 23-25, San Francisco, California: Phillip Hill’s second report from this newly-named conference focused on the engineering aspect of applications covers presentations from Citala, SiPix, and Qualcomm MEMS Technologies

10th Asian Symposium on Information Display, August 2-3, Singapore: Phillip Hill reports on presentations from Kyungpook National University, Kyungil University, Korea University, and Hoseo University

Printed electronics market outlook by Lawrence Gasman

New breakthroughs in electronic inks by Peter Harrop

The future of organic photovoltaics by Harry Zervos

World’s first OLED table light by Jutta Rasp

The Last Word: Le Stink! by Chris Williams

Display Industry Calendar

Issue 26+27

Double Issue

Letter from the publisher: Straight lines and curved screens… by Mark Fihn

News from around the world: General Electric, NanoGram, Danielle Sobik, GloFab, Evonik, Marc Kirsch, Nissan, MiCARD, Aveso, AppliFlex, Georgia Institute of Technology, Flexpoint, Westaim, Flat-Panel-Forum, University of Massachusetts, Sony, Emerson & Cuming, InkTec/Thin Film Electronics, Add-Vision/Alps Electric/Toppan Forms, PaperDisplay, Artificial Muscle, Toumaz Technology, Seiko Epson, prelonic, Clemson University, Surrey NanoSystems, Saint-Gobain/Novaled, Thorn Lighting/University of Durham, NanoGram/Nagase ChemteX, COMEDD, OSRAM, Displaybank, IDTechEx, NanoMarkets, AWA, DisplaySearch, UKDL, USDC, DigiTimes Research, Matsushita/Canon/Hitachi, Toshiba, Sony, Samsung SDI, LG.Philips LCD, Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, Uni-Pixel, Articulated Technologies/Competitive Technologies, Apple, Polymer Vision/Innos, Novaled, EFI, Kovio, Textronics, Peratech/Eleksen, Amazon/E Ink, Nemoptic, Universal Display, Idemitsu Kosan/Universal Display, E Ink, Solicore, University of Michigan, Card Technology Group, Empa, Corning, University of Florida/Portland State University, and Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research/CARO/Optrex Europe/Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems

DisplayForum 2007, November 14-15, Prague, Czech Republic: Phillip Hill’s first report on this Meko-organized event covers presentations from CDT and DisplaySearch

9th Annual OLEDs World Summit, November 6-9, San Diego, California: Norman Bardsley, in this first of three reports, focuses on topics directly related to flexible substrates

SID Display Applications Conference, October 23-25, San Francisco, California: Phillip Hill’s first report from this newly-named conference focused on the engineering aspect of applications covers presentations from Unidym, Vitex and Sourland Mountain Consulting

Organic Electronics Conference and Exhibition 2007, September 24-26, Frankfurt, Germany: Phillip Hill covers this Cintelliq organized event with presentations from AIST, LG.Philips LCD, CEA, Jacobs University, TNO, ITRI and Thuringian University

10th Asian Symposium on Information Display, August 2-3, Singapore: Phillip Hill reports on presentations from ITRI, Indian Institute of Technology, Korea University, Kochi University of Technology, Kyungpook National University, and Seoul National University/Korea Electronics Technology Institute

Flexible Displays 2007, June 19-21, Oakland, California: In this third and final report from the Intertech/PIRA-organized conference, Phillip Hill covers presentations from Polymer Vision, SiPix, Innovatier, Vitex and Nanometrix

Society for Information Display 2007 Symposium, May 20-25, Long Beach, California: Flexible displays were high on the agenda at SID this year with around 50 papers spread across a dozen sessions. In this fourth report, Phillip Hill covers presentations from Philips, Ajou University, LG.Philips LCD, ITRI and Samsung Electronics

Interview with Greg Raupp of the Flexible Display Center

Interview with Mike Johnson of Conductive Inkjet Technology

Interview with Tracey Stephens from Xennia

Special Supplement: FlexiDis Newsletter: Papers written for the FlexiDis Newsletter from Philips, EPFL, IMEC, CNR Roma, Thomson, Thales, CEA LETI, Applied Materials, University of Stuttgart, and Ecole Polytechnique

“Grand Challenges” for emerging technologies by Ric Allott

Review of RFID 2007 by Raghu Das

Is there differential aging in a dancing egg? by Jutta Rasp

The Last Word: UK needs to think out of the box…by Chris Williams

Display Industry Calendar

Letter from the publisher: There’s Indium in them ‘thar hills… by Mark Fihn

News from around the world: Ghim Wei Ho, Michael Trainor, Eric Darnell, LumiGram, FlashWear, Picard, Hussein Chalayan, Hui-Zong Chen, Color Kinetics, Yeon-shin Seung, FlexiDis Project, CMO, NEDO, MIT, University of Surrey, University of Buffalo, Cornell University, BioFlex Project, Georgia Institute of Technology, PARC, Anvik/UIUC, NanoMarkets, DisplaySearch, Research and Markets, Plastic Electronics Technology Centre, USDC, IDTechEx, Sharp, ITRI, Jinke Hanlin, Les Echos/iRex, Citala/Xymox, Bridgestone, ZINK Imaging, Samsung, memsstar Technology/SAFC Hitech, Sunic System/Novaled, Vitex, Vitex/Sunic System, ArcelorMittal/Novaled, Leadis, MED, eMagin, CMEL, Samsung SDI, Sony, UDC/LG.Philips, Epson, OLED-T, Sumitomo Chemical/CDT, CDT/Sumation, Organic Electronics Association, Ormecon, RNT/Kurt J. Lesker, Gentex/Boeing, Five Star Technologies, Ceelite/Eastman, Ceelite, Nanosys/In-Q-Tel, Boost Products/Philips, Fidelica Microsystems, InCard, PolyIC, Jump Lab, PolyApply, Molecular Vision, Newcastle Discovery Museum, Evonik, Konarka/Toppan Forms, Konarka/Air Products, VDMA, Plextronics, Innovalight, Plastic Logic/AIXTRON, AIXTRON/Nanoinstruments, Rohm and Haas/SKC, and Carclo/Conductive Inkjet Technology

Organic Electronics Conference and Exhibition 2007, September 24-26, Frankfurt, Germany: Phillip Hill covers presentations from ITRI, National Chung Hsing University, National Tsing-Hua University, SAIT, Binghamton University, and Tosoh Corporation

Flex-Stretch Electronic Workshop, September 7-9, Leuven, Belgium: Mark Fihn covers presentations from Freudenberg/IMEC/TFCG Microsystems, SiliconPipe/Verdant Electronics, Freudenberg NOK Mechatronics, Nippon Mektron/FFD, Fraunhofer IZM, and Hightec

Flexible Displays 2007, June 19-21, Oakland, California: In this second of three reports from the Intertech/PIRA-organized conference, Phillip Hill covers presentations from ipCapital Group, Honeywell, Arizona State University, Palo Alto Research Center, and Innos

Society for Information Display 2007 Symposium, May 20-25, Long Beach, California: Phillip Hill covers presentations from Kent Displays, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology/Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Corning, DuPont, and ITRI/ Cheng Kung University

Smart Fabrics 2007, May 7-9, Washington DC: In this third report from the Intertech/PIRA-organized event, Mark Fihn covers presentations from JFMagic/Exmovere, Philips, Textronics, Milliken, Interactive Wear, Future Shape and Foster-Miller

Industry Forum on Plastics Electronics, April 24, Chicago, Illinois: Phillip Hill’s third report on this one-day conference on printed electronics covers presentations from GSI Technologies, Add-Vision, Optomec, Honeywell, Novalia, and Polyera

Printed Electronics Europe 2007, April 17-18, Cambridge, UK: In this second of three reports on the IDTechEx-organized event, Phillip Hill covers presentations from Arizona State University, Aveso, Enfucell, Kodak, and Leeds Lithium Power Limited

Interview with Craig Cruikshank from cintelliq

Interview with Adam Laubach from GSI

Interview with Mike Thwaites from Plasma Quest

The huge impact of printed transistors by Peter Harrop

Silicon inks for electronics by Lawrence Gasman

ILEDS: Placeholders for OLED lamps? by David Lieberman

Smart Technology – Smart OLED – Smart Content? by Jutta Rasp

The Last Word: Bring on November! by Chris Williams

Display Industry Calendar

Letter from the publisher: Ties… by Mark Fihn

News from around the world: CDT, Sumitomo Chemical/CDT, Headwaters/Sumitomo Chemical, Novaled, Cenamps/CPI, Honeywell/Flexible Display Center, Ecology Coatings/OCIS, PRISMA, MED, Plasma Quest, Meritz Securities/ICT, United Solar Ovonic/Advanced Green Technologies, Dutch Polymer Institute, Veritas et Visus/AIMCAL, Unidym/InterPhases, Battelle/Unidym, Bundesdruckerei/Fraunhofer IZM, Cartamundi/Thin Film Electronics, Solvay Solexis/Thin Film Electronics, Nantero/HP, AlphaMicron, Vitex, Add-Vision, Element Labs, Displaybank, iSuppli, DisplaySearch, NanoMarkets, Oerlikon Solar/CMC, Acrongenoics/Molecular Vision/Pearson Matthews, LG Philips, LG Electronics, Leah Buechley, Plextronics/ARL, OSD Displays, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, Optomec, LumiGram, Elumin8/ABSEL, Yanko Design/Dan Bishop, HKUST, Southampton University/DKI, Carnegie Mellon University, Northwestern University, Ghent University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, AppliFlex, Harvard/University of Hawaii, NHK STRL, Fujitsu Frontech, Bookeen

Flexible Displays 2007, June 19-21, Oakland, California: In this first of two reports from the Intertech/PIRA-organized conference, Phillip Hill covers presentations from Plastic Logic, IDTechEx, DisplaySearch, Add-Vision, UK Displays & Lighting KTN, Abbie Gregg Inc, and Plextronics

Society for Information Display 2007 Symposium, May 20-25, Long Beach, California: Flexible displays were high on the agenda at SID this year with around 50 papers spread across a dozen sessions. In this second report, Phillip Hill covers presentations from Hanyang University/Pusan National University, Seoul National University, Hanyang/Kyungpook/Hongik Universities, Kent Displays, Bridgestone/Kyushu University, National Chiao Tung University, and Siemens

Smart Fabrics 2007, May 7-9, Washington DC: In this second report from the Intertech/PIRA-organized event, Mark Fihn covers presentations from Konarka, Virginia Tech, Eleksen, Sefar, Fibretronic, and Philips

Industry Forum on Plastics Electronics, April 24, Chicago, Illinois: Phillip Hill’s second report on this one-day conference on printed electronics covers presentations from NanoMarkets, Thin Film Batteries, North of England Inward Investment Agency, iTi and Cenamps

Printed Electronics Europe 2007 April 17-18, Cambridge, UK: In this first of three reports on the IDTechEx-organized event, Phillip Hill covers presentations from Acreo, IDTechEx, Levi Strauss & Co, Menippos, Semprius and the University of Tokyo

Flexible Displays and Microelectronics Conference, February 5-8, Phoenix, Arizona: In this fourth report, Mark Fihn covers presentations from the USDC’s 6th annual Flexible Displays and Microelectronics Conference from Image Lab, Kent Displays, University of Cincinnati, and NuPix

Interview with Ifor Samuel from Lumicure

Organic and printed electronics forecasts and opportunities by Raghu Das

Flexible displays and integrated amorphous silicon source drivers for electrophoretic displays on stainless steel substrates by Sameer Venugopal

Laser patterning and processing for display technologies by Ric Allott

Sumitomo doubles down and purchases CDT while OSRAM folds by Barry Young

Some inputs on OTFT… by Jutta E. Rasp

The Last Word: Give up the day job and do something else? by Chris Williams

Display Industry Calendar

Letter from the publisher: Mega micro, Macro nano… by Mark Fihn

News from around the world: OLLA, Sony, Makoto Tojiki, OLEDNet Research, GE, TMDisplay, Loop.pH, Toshiba, KVA, CDT, UIUC, CDT/Thorn/Durham University, CDT/Sumation, University of Bath/Modecom, Xerox, LG.Philips/UDC, University of Illinois, Leeds University, UDC, OTB Engineering/Thin Film Electronics, Novaled, BASF, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Philips, Add-Vision/Lawrence Berkeley, GlowFur, OLED-T, LumiGram, DisplaySearch, Unidym/CNI, DuPont Displays, OTB/Universal Display Tech, Fujitsu, CMO/CMEL/Kodak, Mobipocket/iRex, Nemoptic, Clearstone Technologies, Nemoptic/Seiko Instruments, FlexMatters, Kent State University, Samsung, IMP, PVI, ON Semiconductor, Dialog Semiconductor/E Ink, iTi/FUJIFILM Dimatix, Seiko, Dimatix/Xennia, Bridgestone, Xaar, Techno Systems, Blackstone Group/Klöckner Pentaplast, BASF/Polyera, eREAD Technologies, NANOIDENT, LG.Philips LCD. BIOIDENT, Plastic Logic, Purdue/Northwestern, LiquaVista, Bayer, VeriSign/ICT, University of Cincinnati, US Display Consortium, University of Michigan, Pelikon/Supertex, Eleksen, SuperImaging, Ceelite, iFire Technology, Vitex Systems/MED, Victrex, Vitex, Motorola/Avery Dennison

Diary: SID 2007 by Ric Allott

Society for Information Display 2007 Symposium, May 20-25, Long Beach, California: Flexible displays were high on the agenda at SID this year with around 50 papers spread across a dozen sessions. In this first report, Phillip Hill covers presentations from ZBD Displays, Nemoptic, Sony, HP, Sharp, and Hanyang University/Kyungpook National University/Samsung Electronics

Smart Fabrics 2007, May 7-9, Washington DC: In this first report from the Intertech/PIRA organized event, Mark Fihn covers presentations from Venture Development Corp, Moondial, CuteCircuit, Nobel Biometrics, Konarka, and Virginia Tech

Industry Forum on Plastics Electronics, April 24, Chicago, Illinois: Phillip Hill reports on this one-day conference covering printed electronics with presentations from Motorola, Cenamps, the Technology Partnership, University of California, Berkeley, and Aveso

Flexible Displays and Microelectronics Conference, February 5-8, Phoenix, Arizona: In this third report, Mark Fihn covers presentations from the first day of the USDC’s 6th annual Flexible Displays and Microelectronics Conference from: EMD Chemicals, Dow Corning, Plextronics, DuPont, GE, Dow Corning, IMRE, DuPont Teijin Films, Sigma Technologies, Eikos, Brown University, and Nissan Chemicals

Printed Electronics USA 2006, December 5-6, Phoenix, Arizona: In this third report from the IDTechEx organized event, claimed to be the world’s largest exhibition on printed electronics, Phillip Hill covers presentations from T-INK, Arjowiggins, Pelikon, International University of Bremen, Oregon State University, and Organic ID

Stretchable Electronics for Large Area Applications (STELLA) by Christopher Klatt

Silver is golden for printed electronics applications by Lawrence Gasman

E Ink grows up by Ken Werner

Printed electronics – the big picture… by Peter Harrop

The Last Word: Trump, a DC subway platform, and Nike shoes… by Jutta Rasp

Display Industry Calendar

Letter from the publisher: “Flexible displays – who needs them?” by Mark Fihn

News from around the world: NEC, University of Manchester, Waseda University, UIUC, Max Planck Institute, University of Texas, University of Leeds, Stuttgart and Erlangen Universities, HP, ORNL, University of Cincinnati, University of Illinois, Argonne National Labs, Purdue, Advanced Technology Program, Philips, ETP, Loop.ph, Nate True, ThinkGeek, Polymer Vision, E Ink, Emano Tec, 4Dconcept/iRex, CeeLite, USDC, Rollex Project, Xaar/Thin Film Electronics, UDC/US Department of Energy, ZBD, Uni-Pixel, Pelikon, Luxell, NanoMarkets, PolyApply, MasterCard/ASK, CDT, Endicott Interconnect Technologies, NANOIDENT, Color Kinetics/Osram, SWEET Program, SiPix Imaging, NanoInk/Arrowhead Research, Konica Minolta/General Electric, Organic Electronics Association, Nemoptic/LC-Tec, Konarka, Unidym/Carbon Nanotechnologies, HP, ITRI

USDC Flexible Displays and Microelectronics Conference, February 5-8, Phoenix: Philips, CEA LETI, FDC, Princeton, PARC, NIST, NSC, QD Vision, ASU, and SiPix

IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA, December 5-6, Phoenix: IDTechEx, ITRI, Nanoident, NXT, UKDL, and CEA Liten

Society for Information Display 2006 Symposium, June 4-9, San Francisco: E Ink, Hitachi, PolyDisplay/Kent State University, and Seiko Epson/Nippon Syokubai

Interview with Matt Wilkinson of Add-Vision

Improved time-to-market OLED lighting solutions by Jutta Rasp

UKDL: Tech program & “Spring 2007 Collaborative R&D Competition” by Ric Allott

Printed Electronics: Overcoming barriers to commercialization by Raghu Das

The Last Word: The importance of local production by Chris Williams

Display Industry Calendar

Letter from the publisher: Interest in flex continues to grow... by Mark Fihn

News from around the world: Alan MacDiarmid, Hitachi, Keio University, LumiGram, Philips, StrideLite, Neolux, Articulated Technologies, Gina Miller, Sharp, TMD, Intelligent Devices, Polymer Vision/Innos, OLED-T/Microsharp, Dimatix, Novaled, Displaybank, Motorola, OTB Display, Vitex/Samsung America, Eleksen, Ciba Specialty Chemicals/VTT, QD Vision, Xennia/CIT, Nemoptic, Pelikon, Plextronics, Interactive Wear, OSRAM/Philips, NovaCentrix, NanoMarkets, Edupaper/E Ink, Crosslink, Klöckner Pentaplast, BASF/Rieke Metals, Unidym/IMRE, Optes Techno Source, Degussa, A-DATA/SiPix Imaging, Bayer/H.C. Starck

USDC Flexible Displays and Microelectronics Conference, February 5-8, Phoenix: DisplaySearch, NanoMarkets, Cintelliq, DisplayBank, Polymer Vision, Cornell University, IMRE, E Ink, Motorola, Samsung, Add Vision, USDC, Samsung SDI, ITRI, and UDC

IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2006, December 5-6, Phoenix: Arizona State University and NovaCentrix

International Symposium on Flexible Electronics and Display, November 8-9, Hsinchu: Diode Systems and Solicor

Intertech OLEDs World Summit, November 13-15, San Diego: FUJIFILM Dimatix, iSuppli, and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Society for Information Display 2006 Symposium, June 4-9, San Francisco: Honeywell Electronic Materials, E Ink, and Bridgestone Corporation

Interview with David Fyfe of Cambridge Display Technology

Conductive inks for printable electronics by Steve Leach

The Last Word: Thoughts from the Far East by Chris Williams

Display Industry Calendar

Light Pollution... by Mark Fihn

News from around the world: Plastic Logic, USDC, CDT/Next Sierra, Kent Displays, Hitachi/Bridgestone, Ben Lai, Magink/Lamar Advertising, Philips/Polymer Vision, eREAD Technology, PolyDisplay, Citala, ZBD/Fujitsu, Enlighted Designs, American Light, Interactive Institute, GloFab, Kieran Timberlake Associates, University of Illinois, NanoDynamics/Clarkson University, Stanford/UCLA, University of Wisconsin, Linköping University, University of Arkansas, University of Western Ontario, IMS CHIPS, Georgia Tech, Soligie/UC Berkeley, Novaled, NanoMarkets, Pelikon, XsunX/Sencera, Bayer MaterialScience, H.W. Sands, UDC/Nippon Steel, Idemitsu Kosan/UDC, Oliver Heine, BIOIDENT Technologies, SiPix

International Symposium on Flexible Electronics and Display, November 8-9, Hsinchu

  + Kyung Hee University: Performance of Organic TFTs for Flexible Displays

  + Philips: Flexible Displays by the EPLaR Process

Americas Display Engineering & Applications Conference (ADEAC), October 23-26, Atlanta

  + U. Central Florida: Multi-color reflective display using a single cholesteric LC cell

  + Sharp Laboratories: Flexible display technology: challenges and opportunities

Society for Information Display 2006 Symposium, June 4-9, San Francisco

  + Samsung SDI: 5.6-inch flexible top emission AMOLED display on stainless steel foil

  + UDC: Full color 100 dpi AMOLED displays on flexible stainless steel substrates

  + Kodak: Amorphous Si TFT backplane on stainless steel foil substrates for AMOLEDs

  + Novaled: Novel materials and structures for efficient, long-living AMOLED displays

  + AIST: Large area flexible display of fiber OLED

3rd Annual Paper-like Displays Conference, October 16-18, Las Vegas

  + Flexible Display Center: The Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University

  + Pivotal Resources: Paper-like Displays Technology, Applications, and Impact

OLEDs World Summit, November 13-15, San Diego

  + Plextronics: Plexcore Active Layer Technology

  + Organic Lighting Technologies: OLED backlights for LCDs

OLEDs World Summit: a personal view, by Geoff Walker

HESSLIS Project: High Efficiency Solid State Light Sources by Wayne Cranton

USDC open solicitation by Brett Bryars

OLEDs as a light source by Jutta Rasp

Display Industry Calendar

Feeling low... by Mark Fihn

News from around the world: Samsung SDI, Printed Electronics USA 2006, Korean Patent Office, Luminetx, Frog Design, Avant News, Denso, Volkswagen, A-DATA, Design Engine, ANAT, Elise Co, Opto Tech, Kolon/RiTdisplay, University of Sydney, Lumicure, Northwestern University, Plastic Logic, ETRI, Organic Electronics Association, IST, ELJET Project, Chiba University/Pioneer, Vitex Systems/Advanced Neotech Systems, Pelikon, Xaar/Danaher, ZBD Displays/Episys, CDT, Microdrop Technologies, NanoMarkets, SecureCard Technologies, FUJIFILM Dimatix, Dutch Polymer Institute, University of Michigan, Yantai Daily Media Group/iRex Technologies, Nissan Chemical Industries/Silecs, Innovative Card Technologies/IdentiPHI, Agfa Materials, Pliant Corporation, EMI, QD Vision, dioVision, Motorola/E Ink, CeeLite, UDC, DisplaySearch, CMO/CMEL

Society for Information Display 2006 Symposium, June 4-9, San Francisco

  + Kent Displays: Flexible ink jet printed conductive polymer electrode cholesteric display

  + E Ink: System integration of electronic paper displays

  + Seiko Epson: A flexible 7.1-inch active-matrix electrophoretic display

  + LG.Philips LCD: 10.1 inch ultra-thin and flexible active matrix electrophoretic display

  + LG Electronics: Flexible paper-like display using charged polymer particles

Americas Display Engineering & Applications Conference (ADEAC), October 23-26, Atlanta: Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University

International Symposium on Flexible Electronics and Display, November 8-9, Hsinchu: PolyIC, Robert Sprague, and Xerox of Canada.

3rd Annual Paper-like Displays Conference, October 16-18, Las Vegas: PARC, Kent Displays, Fujifilm Dimatix, and Motorola

Interview with Robert Jan Visser of Vitex Systems

OLEDs as a light source by Jutta Rasp

The Last Word: Thoughts from the Far East by Chris Williams

Display Industry Calendar

Fabrics -- the big opportunity for flexible displays?... by Mark Fihn

News from around the world: “With Shoes On”, Soner Ozenc, elumin8/Ginco and Perspex, Gareth Pugh, Philips Design, Anke Loh, Being Seen, Osram, Enlighted Designs, Ingo Maurer, CMO/CMEL, Samsung SDI, FPExperts, NanoMarkets, HP, TRID Systems, FlexiDis, Fujitsu, UCLA, Honeywell/USDC, HurraFussball, Konica Minolta/UDC, NovaCentrix, UDC/Seiko Epson, Matsushita, Pelikon, Fujifilm Dimatix, Saab/PolyDisplay, FLEXMatters, Soligie, MED, PolyIC, Georgia Institute of Technology, Cooley Group/CeeLite, Pliant/NovaCentrix, Shimane Masuda Electronics/Applied Nanotech, CDT, Biodent Technologies, Starpharma/Dendritic Nanotechnologies, Bayer, E Ink, dioVision, IDTechEx, QD Vision, Cambridge

Illuminating the OLED lighting roadmap by Peter Harrop

Society for Information Display 2006 Symposium, June 4-9, San Francisco

  + ZBD Displays: Novel geometries of the “Zenithal” bistable device

  + Hewlett-Packard: Electrophoretically controlled nematic LCD: with color generation

  + Nemoptic: 5.1-inch high-speed bistable BiNem display for document applications

  + Kent Displays: Recent progress in flexible and drapable reflective cholesteric displays

  + BASF: Polymerizable liquid crystalline acrylates for the manufacturing of ultra thin optical films

  + Hanyang University: Pixel-isolated liquid crystal mode for plastic liquid crystal displays

  + Eastman Kodak: Cholesteric PDLC displays with low driving voltage

Conformal coatings and dielectrics: UKDL seminar, September 19, by Sheena Zuberi: Dalmatian Technology, Dow Corning, Ogier Consulting, DuPont Teijin Films, Plastic Logic, Brunel University, University of Paisley, Oxford University and Oxford Instruments

DuPont Teijin Films seminar: UKDL seminar, 20th September, by Sheena Zuberi

Flexible carbon nanotube transparent electrodes by Chris Weeks

The Last Word: The Fordists and the Churchillians…by Chris Williams

Display Industry Calendar

Predicting the future… by Mark Fihn

News from around the world: DisplaySearch, NanoMarkets, Displaybank, Plasma Quest, Sencera, CeeLite, Weyerhaeuser/OrganicID, SoftPixel, Linde/BOC Group, UDC, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, DuPont Teijin Films, Bayer/3M, Seiko, Instructables, Philips Research, Lunar Design, QD Vision, dioVision, BASF, Fraunhofer/Optomec, Research and Markets, Samsung SDI, VTT, Vitex, UDC/Novaled, OLED-T, Cornell, Nano-Proprietary, Eikos/Plextronics, Advance Nanotech, Fujifilm Dimatix, CDT, Vision Objects/iRex Technologies, Georgia Institute of Technology, Aixtron/Osram/Philips/BASF/Applied Materials, Hewlett Packard/iTi investigate, OE-A, LiquaVista, Kodak/Tohoku, IXYS

Society for Information Display 2006 Symposium, June 4-9, San Francisco

  + Seiko Epson: Printable OLEDs promise for future TV market 

  + Toppan Printing: Development of polymer OLEDs using the relief printing method

  + Seiko Epson: Inkjet fabrication of alignment layers on HTPS panels

  + SiPix Imaging: Roll-to-roll manufacturing process for full-color electrophoretic film

  + Kodak: Comparing reflection characteristics of paper materials and display devices

An interview with Barry Young of DisplaySearch

The next revolution in information displays: DisplayMasters presentation by Greg Raupp, Flexible Display Center

UV/EB Technology Expo and Conference, April 24-26, Chicago: Vitex Systems, Preco Industries, DSM Desotech, VTT, ipCapital

The Last Word: How do we be green? by Chris Williams

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The cloak of invisibility... by Mark Fihn

News from around the world: University of Wisconsin-Madison, DoE, Merck, AUO/CMO, Plextronics/Northwestern University, Hitachi, NEC/SouthWest NanoTechnologies, Acheson, UDC, Mule Lighting, Pelikon, NovaCentrix, Eleksen, ORFID/BASF, Hexion/iTi, Eikos/DoE, CDT, InnoTrans, Air Products/University of Connecticut, Motorola, Arrowhead/University of Florida, Philips, PolyIC, T-Qualizer, Nippon Oil, Callum Peden, Akashima Laboratories, ARINC, rAndom International, Nanosys, eMagin/US Army

Society for Information Display 2006 Symposium, June 4-9, San Francisco

  + Seoul National University: Ultra large-sized flexible plasma display

  + MIT: Quantum dot light emitting devices for pixellated full color displays

  + Brunel University: Low cost, flexible electroluminescent displays printed by offset

  + Dai Nippon Printing: Development of novel paste cathode for all print OLED devices

  + TRADIM: Continuous coating of LCD photo-alignment layers using an R2R process

OLED and paper-like display markets: Lawrence Gasman suggests that, despite good signs from e-paper companies such as E Ink, it will be the burgeoning OLED market that will rule the roost

UV/EB Technology Expo and Conference, April 24-26, Chicago: Motorola Labs, Flint Group, nyx Illuminated Clothing, EXFO Precision Assembly and Trillion Science

A roll-to-roll research and prototyping facility: The Center for Advanced Microelectronics Manufacturing (CAMM) at Binghamton University, by Bahgat Sammakia, Mark D. Poliks, and Mary Beth Curtin

An interview with Hash Pakbaz of Cambrios: In this extended interview, the vice president of Cambrios explains his company’s development of alternatives to ITO

Japanese consortium to produce bendable LCDs by 2009, maybe… by Ken Werner

The Last Word: Low-hanging fruit can be filling: Kimberly Allen makes an analogy between the nearest fruit on the lowest branches and the way that the OLED industry is grabbing the quick rewards and ignoring the flexible opportunities

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Flexible thoughts from SID... by Mark Fihn

News from San Francisco SID 2006: Plastic Logic, CDT/Toppan, Cologne University, LiquaVista, Mitsubishi Chemical, CDT/Litrex, Bridgestone, iTi, Seiko Epson, SiPix, Osram, GE, OLED-T, and iTi/Xaar/Cima NanoTech

News from the rest of the world: Nanoident Technologies, Samtel, UDC/Mitsubishi, Konica Minolta, Nippon Steel Chemical/UDC, ZBD, USDC, JCDecaux/Magink, UDC/US Navy, Pelikon/Sweda, Plasma Quest, Pelikon/Memtron, Seertech, NIST, Energy Conversion Devices, DNT, Trident/iTi, CDT/H.C. Starck, Fuji Photo Film/Dimatix, Bright Night, E Ink/Actel, Dialog Semiconductor/E Ink, Advance Nanotech/University of Bristol, Applied Plasmonics, Advance Nanotech/CAPE, Micro Reactor System, Digital Graphics/Cabot, Philips/Novaled, QD Vision, CeeLite, NanoGram, US Army/UDC,

Sony, and Inventables

iSuppli Flexible Displays Report: The long-awaited 2006 iSuppli report on flexible displays, compiled by Kim Allen, director of technology and strategic research, revealed fundamental changes in methodology from its previous incarnation. In this first of two reports, Phillip Hill summarizes the main points.

Society for Information Display 2006 Symposium, June 4-9, San Francisco:  Plastic Logic/E Ink, Kyung Hee University, LG Electronics/KIST/KAIST, Samsung SDI, NHK, Sony/Riken, ITRI, SAIT, Samsung Electronics, and Sarnoff Corporation/Columbia University

Are flexible displays actually good for something? by Ken Werner

Intertech/PIRA Flexible Displays Conference, May 10-12, San Jose, California:  Motorola, Air Force Research Laboratory, Add-Vision, ipCapital Group, Kent Displays, SiPix Imaging, Zikon, Flexible Display Center, Honeywell, Abbie Gregg, and Vitex

The Last Word: by Alfred Poor: The flexible display “killer app”…

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The cost of materials... by Mark Fihn

News from around the world: Georgia Institute of Technology/Sandia National Laboratories, Sensatex, RQMP, UDC/Princeton/USC, COPE/Solvay, Applied Materials/Applied Films, SiPix Imaging, Hewlett Packard/CRANN, Sony, LiquaVista, Sony/Idemitsu, Cambridge University, USDC/Princeton, Citizen, University of Cincinnati, Uni-Pixel/PARC, NanoMarkets, Toppan/E Ink, National Starch/USDC, Princeton/UDC, Dimatix, Delft University/Philips, Mitsubishi, Articulated Technologies/Grote Industries, Novaled/Ciba Specialty Chemicals, DisplaySearch/Cintelliq, Fujitsu, TFE/Xaar,

University of Groningen/Philips, DuPont, Hitachi,

Intertech/PIRA Flexible Displays Conference, May 10-12, San Jose, California

Plastic Logic, VISA, Newspaper Association of America, iSuppli, Sony, Lexar Media, nCryptone, Solicore

Flexible Displays and Microelectronics Conference, February 7-9, Phoenix, Arizona

  + Arizona State University: FDC initiative on flexible backplane technologies 

  + Philips: “FlexiDis” consortium technology projects

  + Plastic Logic: 14-inch prototype line for manufacturing flexible active matrix displays

  + UTO International: TruNano processing for flexible displays

  + Cabot: Inks for flexible electronics manufacturing

  + Brown University: Island-containing thin metal interconnects on polymer substrates

  + ASU/FDC: Sheet resistivity modification of PEDOT-PSS by inkjet printing mild oxidant

  + Kodak Graphics: Laser direct imaging – multi-purpose tool in manufacturing 

  + Abbie Gregg: Are we there yet? Updates to the R2R manufacturing cost model

  + Binghamton University: Overview – Center for Advanced Microelectronics Manufacturing

  + Hewlett-Packard: Towards R2R manufacturing of electronics on flexible substrates

  + MicroContinuum: Novel R2R manufacturing techniques for patterning conductive layers

  + Applied Films: Basic pre-tests on R2R web coaters for flexible displays

  + SiPix: Inkjet fabrication of multi-color Microcup electrophoretic displays

  + AIMCAL: The Association of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators 

The Last Word: by Chris Williams: Plastic electronics will become ubiquitous

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Conferences and flexible displays by Mark Fihn

News from around the world: Epson/JSR, Seiko Epson, Fuji Film, NanoDynamics, Bora Communications/Eleksen, OLLA, UDC,