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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
by Charles Annis, Vice President, Manufacturing Research
SID, the display industry’s leading annual academic conference, is always a great source of information on R&D into future display technologies. Crystallization of a-Si to p-Si and its application to AMOLED fabrication have been a favorite topic of the symposium for several years now. ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
by Charles Annis, Vice President, Manufacturing Research
On April 28 the Japanese press reported that Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) will spend ¥30-40 billion (around $300-$400 million depending on the volatile exchange rate) to build a Gen 8 color filter fab for IPS Alpha’s planned line in Himeji, Japan. In General, Japanese ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
By Charles Annis, Vice President, Manufacturing Research
A gigawatt is a lot of electricity. A thin film solar cell fab with annual capacity to produce 109 watts worth of panels is on a scale multiple times that of any lines currently in mass production. Assuming the use of 1000 × 1400 ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
By Charles Annis, Vice President, FPD Manufacturing Research
One of the biggest news stories at FPD International held Oct 24-26 in Yokohama, Japan, was Samsung’s display of the five 19" SXGA modules (shown below), fabricated on soda-lime glass substrates. Display specifications include
Resolution: 1280 × RGB × 1024
Brightness: 300 cd/m2
Color Gamut: 72% ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
By Charles Annis, Vice President of FPD Manufacturing Research
On August 23, DisplaySearch Vice President of Japanese TV Market Research Hisakazu Torii and I had the opportunity to meet with Panasonic executives, tour the Matsushita Amagasaki factory, and get a demonstration of the company’s latest PDP technology. Matsushita did an excellent ...
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