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Editorial A Visionary Destination By Stephen P. Atwood
Industry News LG and Samsung Bring Large, Curved OLED TV to Market By Jenny Donelan
Guest Editorial OLED Lighting Edges Closer to Commercial Reality By Sven Murano
Display Week Review
I-Zone and Best-in-Show Winners The Society for Information Display honored five exhibiting companies at Display Week 2013, the 50th annual SID International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition, in Vancouver last May. These companies were Shinoda Plasma for best prototype in the Innovation Zone and Cima NanoTech, Universal Display Corp., E Ink, and 3M for Best-in-Show winners on the exhibit floor. By Jenny Donelan
Touch Technology 2013 was a year of evolution and maturation for touch technology, with projected- capacitive dominating the exhibit floor like never before. This article takes a close look at the state of p-cap at the Vancouver show, as well as at the “Touch-Gesture-Motion” Market Focus Conference at Display Week. By Geoff Walker
LCDs LCDs dominate the display market despite challenges. By Alfred Poor
3-D The 3-D technology on the show floor this year was represented primarily by small, glasses-free displays with improved image quality. By Ken Werner
OLEDs TVs were not the only OLED-based products of interest at Display Week. By Sven Murano
e-Paper A new product line from E Ink Corp. topped the surprises at this year’s show. By Jason Heikenfeld
Venture Capital Series: Part II: Raising Capital for Technology Ventures Investors come in different packages. It’s important to know the various types, along with their pluses and minuses. This article is the second of four in a series by a venture capital expert who has both launched and funded new companies. By Helge Seetzen
Frontline Technology: OLEDs for Professional Lighting Applications Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) already represent a strong market segment in display applications such as mobile devices. In the lighting market, they are still in the beginning phase. To achieve a relevant market segment, OLED technology has to compete in terms of performance, cost, and other unique features against established light-source technologies. By Jörg Amelung, Christian Kirchhof, Tino Göhler, and Michael Eritt
Frontline Technology: High-Performance White-OLED Devices for Next-Generation Solid-State Lighting The efficacy of white OLEDs has reached 100 lm/W with RGB-phosphorescent emitters and light-extraction technologies. OLED has therefore already exceeded the efficacy of typical lighting equipment with fluorescent lamps. By Kazuyuki Yamae, Hiroya Tsuji, Varutt Kittichungchit, Nobuhiro Ide, and Takuya Komoda
Frontline Technology: New Milestones for LED Lighting Thin-film technology has enabled a new generation of high-brightness LEDs By Martin Behringer
SID News: Display Week 2014 Symposium to Feature OLED TV, Wearable Displays, 3D, and Lighting By Jenny Donelan