SID Debuts Innovation Zone for Cutting-Edge Display Technologies

At Display Week 2012, the Society for Information Display is providing a new forum for live demonstrations of emerging information display technologies and related areas. This new exhibit platform is called the "Innovation Zone" (I-Zone) and will appear in the main Exhibit Hall, under the sponsorship of E Ink Holdings, on June 5-6 in the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

"Display Week has always been the best place for companies to exhibit their display products," says Jerzy Kanicki, Chairman of SID's I-Zone Committee. "The missing piece has been a platform concentrated in one area for small companies, labs, institutes, and other research entities with limited funding to exhibit the very newest display technology." The I-Zone will allow researchers to demonstrate their prototypes or other hardware demo units for two days free of charge at the premier display exhibition in North America. This new platform will also enable click here to read the rest of the article.

Display of the Year Deadline Extended

The Display Awards Committee is extending the period for nominations for the 2012 Display of the Year Award, the Display Component Award, and the Display Application Award until January 31, 2012. Nominations can be made by any SID member or non-member. Self-nominations are encouraged.

Bob Melcher, Chairman of the SID Display Awards Committee, notes that SID members and display industry professionals are uniquely able to recognize outstanding new products in the display field.

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OLED100.eu Project Closes, Reports Results

Dresden, Germany; November 2011. Upon its officially scheduled termination, the European research project OLED100.eu announced that it is celebrating the achievement of important advances in bringing organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) closer to market introduction in general lighting. Fifteen companies and research institutes from six European countries worked together on this goal from September 2008 to August 2011. During this period, according to the project's coordinators, technical issues were investigated and solved, and acceptance levels and preferences of end-users with respect to the technology were studied.

Results included: click here to read the rest of the article.