The latest news and information on diplay manufacturing, including flat panel displays, LED displays, LCDs, field emission displays, plasma displays and flexible displays.
Oki Integrates AlGaAs LEDs on Silicon Mounting Chips Kenji Tsuda, Asia Contributing Editor - 04/24/2008
Oki Digital Imaging Corp. is in mass production with LED print heads that use a film bonding technique to integrate AlGaAs epitaxial layers on CMOS silicon ICs. The approach avoids wasting valuable space on bonding pads, resulting in higher-density arrays for LED print heads, Oki managers said at the INC4 conference in Tokyo. More
Applied Q2 sales down 15% y/y, sees cycle bottom mid-year By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor - 05/14/2008
Santa Clara, Calif.-based semiconductor, display and solar panel manufacturing equipment giant Applied Materials Inc reported net sales for its fiscal Q2 ended April 27 that were down 15% from fiscal Q2 2007, and up 3% from fiscal Q1. Company execs noted on a call with Wall Street analysts that it expects fiscal Q3 to mark the bottom in silicon revenues.
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Splinter Sees Weak Order Period Looming for Equipment Vendors David Lammers, News Editor - 05/13/2008
Applied Materials CEO Michael Splinter said the third fiscal quarter may see silicon equipment sales drop by 40% from the second fiscal quarter ending April 27, representing the bottom of the current downcycle. Orders from flash vendors in particular have been less than expected. One bright spot was introduction of the Aera2 mask inspection system, which is being used by four customers now, he said.
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Innovative Film Protects Thin-Film Solar Cells, Other Plastic Electronics Aaron Hand, Executive Editor, Electronic Media - 05/01/2008
Scientists from Singapore’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering have developed a barrier film that enables a significantly longer lifetime for plastic electronic devices such as low-cost solar cells, flexible displays and OLEDs. The new technique protects these devices from moisture 1000× more effectively than other available technologies.
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Samsung, Sony to invest $1.8B on LCD line By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor - 04/25/2008
Reaffirming their liquid crystal display (LCD) panel manufacturing alliance, Samsung and Sony have plans to jointly construct a third flat-screen factory in South Korea, according to filings with the Korea Stock Exchange. The companies are planning to invest $1.8 billion (1.8 trillion Korean won) on an eighth-generation (8G) production line through their S-LCD joint venture that already operates two factories in Tangjeong in South Korea.
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Matsushita, Pioneer form PDP alliance By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor - 04/25/2008
To progress and reinforce the plasma display panel (PDP) business, Pioneer Corp and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd reported Thursday that they have reached a basic agreement on a comprehensive PDP business alliance that covers R&D, strategic production and supply of PDP and modules.
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Cutting-Edge Microelectronics Manufacturing Center Gets Rolling Sally Cole Johnson, Contributing Editor - 04/14/2008
Binghamton University officially opened its Center for Advanced Microelectronics Manufacturing (CAMM) at the end of March, in collaboration with Endicott Interconnect Technologies (Endicott, N.Y.) and Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.).
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Printed Electronics Seeks New Territories Chris Edwards, Contributing Editor - 04/09/2008
Printed electronics must look to new markets, such as flexible displays, photovoltaics and wearable electronics, said Peter Harrop, chairman of consultancy IDTechEx. In a speech at the Printed Electronics Europe 2008 conference in Dresden, Germany, Harrop said IDTechEx forecasts that the market for printed electronics will hit $300B by 2028.
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Dan Herr is director of Nanomanufacturing Science Research at SRC. An important part of his research focuses on nanotechnology’s demands on metrology, and he discusses his work to determine where metrology technology’s gaps are, and how to fill them.
On the Road to 3-D Ruth DeJule, Contributing Editor, 11/01/2007 In the early 2000s, 42 in. plasma TV was new on the market with a price tag exceeding $10K. This year, LCD has overtaken plasma and 3-D TV is going into the home. A part of this progression since 1993 is the U.S. Display Consortium, an association consisting of display manufacturers and developers....
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On the Road to 3-D
