The Display Show Nanosys

Note: This is a highly visual episode and we recommend watching the video version on YouTube for the full experience: Hot Display Technologies from Display Week 2023 - The Display Show, Episode 21

We're back and live from the show floor! Join host Brian Berkeley to tour the most exciting displays and display technologies at Display Week 2023 in Los Angeles, California. This year we take a look at the latest rollable/flexible and ink jet printed displays, new developments in OLED/ microLED/ mini-LED displays, display metrology tools, and everything in between.

We'll see you next year in San Jose, CA at Display Week 2024!

Special thanks to:
• Bryan Chan, SID Regional VP & E Ink Senior Director
• Ji Jung Park, LG Display Business Team Representative
• Chirag Shah, Samsung Display Director Marketing
• James Kim, Sundiode Co-founder & CEO
• Stephen Yi, Sundiode Co-founder & CTO
• Kenichiro Masaoka, NHK Science & Technology Principal Research Engineer
• Johan Bergquist, Den Consulting Consultant
• Dr. Weiran Cao, TCL CSOT Director, IJP-OLED Development Center
• CC Lee, Visionox Deputy General Manager
• Jennifer Lin, AUO Senior Associate VP, Advanced Technology Research Center
• Dean Collins, Tianma Director Marketing
• Robert Dunhouse, Tianma Sr. Manager
• Jeff Yurek, Nanosys VP Marketing

Links:
• SID Display Week: https://www.displayweek.org
• Chris Chinnock's technical description of Sundiode: https://youtu.be/_pybuCXxdq0
• Nanosys: https://nanosys.com

Today's guest is Paul Gray of Omdia. Paul leads Omdia’s home devices research, which spans television sets, smart homes, consumer electronics, and domestic appliances. His main research area is TV sets, focusing on the European region, broadcast technology, smart TV, and new TV features. Paul is also heavily engaged in researching the development of the Ultra HD ecosystem. Paul first joined Omdia more than 15 years ago. With over 30 years of experience in the TV set supply chain working for NXP and Philips in semiconductors and displays, Paul continues to research the TV business. Among others, Paul has been cited by the Financial Times, Korea Times, Korea Daily, Nikkei, and Le Monde. Paul holds a degree in electrical engineering and a diploma in industrial studies.

In this episode, Paul and Brian talked about how the viewing experience is more important than specsmanship, lifestyle effects on viewing patterns, differences between the European markets versus North America, what vinyl records have in common with displays, and the fact that viewers watch content, not screens.

Links:
*Omdia: https://omdia.tech.informa.com
*"Vergence-Accommodation Conflict Diagram" by RoseDaler / CC BY-SA 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vergence-Accommodation_Conflict_Diagram.png
*Nanosys: https://nanosys.com

Episode 19 features Dr. Tara Akhavan, who is the founder and CEO of Faurecia IRYStec Inc., which makes eye-friendly display technology for the automotive industry. Tara is also Marketing Vice-chair for the Society for Information Display and she is active with the CIE. In this episode, Tara and Brian discuss how to succeed as an entrepreneur in the field of information display, growth prospects for displays in automobiles, the importance of resilience, especially for young female entrepreneurs, human perception, and SID.

Today's guest is Takatoshi Tsujimura, who is the most recent past-president of the Society for Information Display and is Technology Fellow at Konica Minolta in Tokyo, Japan. Brian and Taka-san discuss recent important developments at SID, how SID supports both commercial and academic interests for the display world, the recent Display Week held in San Jose, California, key goals for SID, how OLEDs were potentially considered dead in 2008, and some hints about exciting OLED development activity at Konica Minolta.

Today's guest is Ross Young. In this episode, Ross and Brian discuss the new technologies shown at SID Display Week 2022 right from the show floor. Ross Young is co-founder and CEO of DSCC. Previously, he started, ran and sold DisplaySearch which he started with less than $500 in capital and grew to over $10M in revenues. He has also worked throughout the display supply chain including at a TV brand, panel supplier, multiple equipment suppliers and a materials supplier.

Today’s guest is Dr. Eric Virey. In this episode, Eric and Brian discussed Mini-LED and especially MicroLED displays. They covered the definition of mini versus microLEDs, the importance of microLEDs to Apple and their disruptive approach to microLED displays, the Cambrian Explosion in technology including QD-microLEDs, and microLED display adoption trends and product forecasts. MicroLED displays are a hot topic in the display industry and there are very few people in the world who know more about this field than Eric Virey. Eric serves as a Senior Display Market and Technology Analyst at Yole Développement. Since 2009, Eric has contributed to numerous custom projects in the LED, sapphire and display industries and has authored multiple market reports. Eric has spoken at more than 25 industry conferences and has been interviewed or quoted by: The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fox News, CNBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, MIT’s Technology Review, and Photonic Spectra. Prior to Yole, he held various R&D, engineering, manufacturing and marketing positions with Saint-Gobain in France and the United States. Eric received his PhD in Optoelectronics from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble.

Links:
* Yole Développement: http://www.yole.fr
* i-Micronews: https://www.i-micronews.com
* MicroLED Displays – Market, Industry and Technology Trends 2021: https://www.i-micronews.com/products/microled-displays-market-industry-and-technology-trends-2021/
* MicroLED Displays – Intellectual Property Landscape and Analysis 2021: https://www.i-micronews.com/products/microled-displays-intellectual-property-landscape-and-analysis-2021/
* iPad Pro miniLED backlight teardown and reverse costing analysis: https://www.systemplus.fr/deep-dive-into-apples-ipad-pros-miniled-backlight-how-the-company-balanced-cost-and-performance/
* Nanosys: https://www.nanosys.com