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Going organic: The cost-down route to foldable display manufacture

06/09/2015  Organic semiconductors now offer the performance, cost and route to adoption, for foldable displays; from ultra-thin, conformal, wearables to truly foldable smartphones and tablets.

The impact of consumer demand for cutting-edge display technology on the gases market

06/09/2015  How gases are used in the manufacture of displays is being impacted by new technologies, consumer demand, and the burgeoning China market.

Flat panel display equipment spending forecast to reach $9B in 2015

06/02/2015  Revenues for flat panel display (FPD) manufacturing equipment are expected to grow for the third consecutive year to reach $9.1 billion.

Smartwatch display shipments to reach record 34M units in 2015

06/02/2015  Smartwatch display unit shipments are expected to grow 250 percent year-over-year, reaching a record 34 million units in 2015, led by demand for the new Apple Watch.

Fujifilm and imec demonstrate full-color OLEDs with photoresist technology for organic semiconductors

06/02/2015  FUJIFILM Corporation and nano-electronics research institute, imec have demonstrated full-color organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) by using their jointly-developed photoresist technology for organic semiconductors.

Applied Materials' breakthrough patterning hard mask enables copper interconnect scaling

05/19/2015  Applied Materials, Inc. today announced its Applied Endura Cirrus HTX PVD system with breakthrough technology for patterning copper interconnects at 10nm and beyond.

Global LCD TV panel shipments reached monthly record high in March 2015

04/28/2015  LCD TV panel shipments from global panel makers reached 23.9 million in March 2015, growing 20 percent month over month and 11 percent year over year.

Global 4K display market to reach $52B in 2020

04/20/2015  Once a feature mainly found in next-gen TVs, 4K resolution displays now being adopted in smartphones, PC monitors, OLED displays and notebook PCs.

Applied Materials announces new photomask etch system

04/20/2015  Applied Materials today announced the Applied Centura Tetra Z Photomask Etch system for etching next-generation optical lithographic photomasks needed by the industry to continue multiple patterning scaling to the 10nm node and beyond.

Web tension control in roll-to-roll web processing

04/07/2015  Achieving precise registration accuracy is a factor of two related variables: web tension and transport velocity.

C3Nano Inc. and Kimoto Ltd. Japan partner in a strategic alliance

04/02/2015  C3Nano, Inc., a developer and supplier of solution-based, transparent conductive inks and films announced today that it has entered into a partnership with Kimoto, Ltd. Japan.

Increasing demand for larger TVs leads to growing large-area TFT LCD shipment revenue

03/06/2015  Large-area TFT LCD display panel suppliers enjoyed moderate growth in shipments, revenue and display area in 2014 as the market demand for key applications grew.

Stronger competition forecast for mobile phone display manufacturers this year

03/06/2015  Global mobile phone display module shipments in 2015 are expected to rise just 4 percent year-over-year to reach two billion units, leading to even stronger competition among mobile phone display manufacturers.

Samsung, LGE and Sony to account for nearly half of all TV display panels shipping in 2015

03/06/2015  Leading global TV brands, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and Sony, gained market share and increased their year-over-year shares of LCD TV shipments by an average of 11 percent in 2014, which is higher than the market average.

SmartKem collaborates with Centre for Process Innovation to support customer pre-production

02/24/2015  SmartKem has announced an extensive collaboration programme with the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) for the development of pre-production prototypes featuring the SmartKem unique range of semiconductor inks for the manufacture of ultra flexible thin-film transistors (TFT).

Smartphone display manufacturers facing pressure to further reduce prices in 2015

02/20/2015  Even as smartphone panel resolution continues to rise, and as display sizes continue to grow, panel manufacturers are facing pressure to reduce prices.

Applied's merger with TEL: Still a work in progress

02/11/2015  Applied Materials on Wednesday reported that its proposed merger with Tokyo Electron Ltd. (TEL) is still under way, without giving a deadline or expected date of conclusion.

Quantum Materials begins shipping cadmium-free red and green quantum dots

02/05/2015  Rapidly growing North American quantum dot manufacturer Quantum Materials Corp today announced it has begun shipping Cadmium-free red and green quantum dots in evaluation and production quantities to select consumer electronics manufacturers.

Sapphire industry: What we could expect after Apple’s withdrawal last September

02/05/2015  The announcement by GTAT and Apple in late 2013 of a more than $1 billion combined investment to set up the largest sapphire crystal growth facility in the world had raised hopes that adoption of sapphire in smartphones would rapidly reach a massive scale, with Apple setting up the pace and forcing its competitor to follow suit.

Flat panel display area demand growing rapidly

01/29/2015  Increasing sizes of display panels for TVs, smartphones, mobile PCs and automotive displays are driving increases in total flat-panel-display area demand growth.




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