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Gen 10 and larger flat panel display capacity to grow at 59% CAGR to 2022

12/08/2017  Gen 10 and larger fabs to account for 26 percent of large-area capacity by 2020 from 4 percent in 2017.

Clear leads to fully transparent devices

12/04/2017  See-through electronic devices, such as transparent displays, smart windows and concealed circuits require completely translucent components if users are to digitally interact with their perceived surroundings and manipulate this information in real time. Now, KAUST researchers have devised a strategy that helps to integrate transparent conducting metal-oxide contacts with two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors into these devices.

Flat panel demand to grow 7.2% in 2018, biggest gain since 2014

12/01/2017  Global demand for flat panel displays by area is forecast to grow 7.2 percent to 210 million square meters in 2018 compared to 2017, according to IHS Markit.

Discovery points the way to better and cheaper transparent conductors

11/30/2017  Researchers at the University of Liverpool have made a discovery that could improve the conductivity of a type of glass coating which is used on items such as touch screens, solar cells and energy efficient windows.

Kateeva introduces the YIELDjet EXPLORE product family for OLED RGB pixel deposition

11/28/2017  Suite of inkjet deposition systems to enable R&D and pilot production of large-size OLED displays

Global shipments of oxide TFT LCD mobile PC panels to grow 200% this year

11/06/2017  Global shipments of large oxide TFT LCD panels of 9 inches or larger are expected to grow from 20 million units in 2016 to 55.6 million units in 2017.

Costs of 55-inch OLED TV display production catch up to LCD TV panels

11/03/2017  Unit cost for 55-inch UHD OLED TV panels recorded a 55 percent decline in second quarter of 2017 since its introduction in early 2015.

IPS display adoption in notebook PCs continues to increase

11/01/2017  IPS to make up 37 percent of all notebook PC panels shipped in 2017 and 42 percent in 2018, up from 27 percent in 2016.

TowerJazz and Yuanchen Microelectronics announce partnership for BSI manufacturing

10/30/2017  This is the first time BSI will be offered by a foundry to the high-end photography market, including large formats requiring stitching.

Global AMOLED panel production capacity set to more than quadruple over next five years

10/27/2017  Samsung Display and LG Display to remain as market leaders.

Researchers look to patterns to envision new engineering field

10/27/2017  The phenomenon that forms interference patterns on television displays when a camera focuses on a pattern like a person wearing stripes has inspired a new way to conceptualize electronic devices. Researchers at the University of Illinois are showing how the atomic-scale version of this phenomenon may hold the secrets to help advance electronics design to the limits of size and speed.

NVIDIA, Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology to accelerate Taiwan AI revolution with NVIDIA AI computing platform

10/26/2017  NVIDIA today announced that it is collaborating with Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence across Taiwan's commercial sector in support of its recently announced AI Grand Plan to help foster domestic AI-related industries.

Sussex physicists have breakthrough on brittle smart phone screens

10/25/2017  New 'potato stamp' technique combining silver and graphene may create cheaper, more flexible and eco-friendly screens.

2017 IEDM features rich technical program, focus sessions

10/17/2017  Each year at the IEDM, the world's best technologists in micro/nano/bioelectronics converge to participate in a technical program consisting of more than 220 presentations, along with other events.

Gartner identifies the top 10 strategic technology trends for 2018

10/06/2017  Gartner, Inc. this week highlighted the top strategic technology trends that will impact most organizations in 2018.

Flexible display shipments will increase to 643M units annually by 2022

10/04/2017  In 2017, key flexible display components achieved cost and performance parity with their rigid counterparts for the first time, thus removing a key market barrier and opening the door to rapid adoption in a variety of otherwise-rigid devices such as e-readers and wearables.

Driven by TV size migration, large TFT display market continues to grow 6% by area in 2017

09/15/2017  The large thin film transistor (TFT) display market is expected to continue to expand in 2017 despite slower end-market demand, according to IHS Markit.

TV market: Quantum dots reinforce LCD positioning, faced with the OLED solutions

08/31/2017  How will the competitive landscape evolve, especially with OLED solutions?

Panel makers forecast to maintain high fab utilization rates in Q3

08/29/2017  The overall utilization rate of display panel fabrication (fab) plants is expected to remain high in the third quarter of 2017, recording similar levels for the fifth consecutive quarter.

OLED encapsulation materials market to grow 16% CAGR to $233M by 2021

08/21/2017  The popularity of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TVs and smartphones has boosted not only the OLED display market but also the OLED encapsulation materials market.




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